Of Healing and Curing

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The bleeding had stopped. The woman who had suffered from hemorrhages for twelve years felt in her body, we are told in Mark 5, that she was healed. She could have gone on her way, anonymously. There was a crowd; the others needn’t have known how she was healed, or even that she was healed.

But would she have been cured?

Psychology Today tells u...