Healer may refer to:

Conventional medicine

Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a professional degree. T ...

* Health professional

Alternative medicine

* Faith healer *

Folk healer A folk healer is an unlicensed person who practices the art of healing using traditional practices, herbal remedies and the power of suggestion. The healer may be a highly trained person who pursues their specialties, learning by study, observa ...

* Healer (alternative medicine), someone who purports to aid recovery from ill health *

Spiritual healer Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into a patient and effect positive results. Practitioners use a number of names including various synonyms for ...

Film and television

* ''The Healer'' (1935 film), an American film by Reginald Barker * ''The Healers'' (film), a 1974 American TV film featuring Lance Kerwin * "Healer" (''The Twilight Zone''), a 1985 episode of ''The New Twilight Zone'' * ''Healer'' (film), a 1994 American film starring Tyrone Power, Jr * ''The Healer'', a 1994 British TV film starring

Paul Rhys Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh theatre, television and film actor. Early life Rhys was born in Neath to working class Catholic parents, Kathryn Ivory and her husband Richard Charles Rhys, a labourer. At fourteen, he bred and train ...

* "The Healer" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), a 2006 episode of ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' * ''Healer'' (TV series), a 2014 South Korean television series * ''The Healer'' (2016 film), a comedy-drama film starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Jonathan Pryce, Camilla Luddington * ''The Healers'' (audio drama), an audio drama based on ''Doctor Who''

Music

* ''The Healers'' (album), a 1987 album by David Murray * ''The Healer'' (album), a 1989 album by John Lee Hooker *

Johnny Marr and the Healers ''Boomslang'' is the first, and to date only album by Johnny Marr + the Healers. It was released in 2003 through Artistdirect and iMusic. The band consisted of drummer for The Who and son of Ringo Starr, Zak Starkey and then former Kula Shaker ...

, who released an album in 2003 * ''The Healer'', a 2008 song from the album '' New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)'' by Erykah Badu * '' Healer / Across the Shields'', a 2009 EP by Torche * The Healer (Jenkins), a 2014 cantata by Karl Jenkins * ''Healer'' (Alex Cuba album), a 2015 album by Alex Cuba * ''Healer'', a 2022 album by

Casting Crowns Casting Crowns is a contemporary Christian and Christian rock band started in 1999 by youth pastor Mark Hall, who serves as the band's lead vocalist, as part of a youth group at First Baptist Church in Downtown Daytona Beach, Florida. They later ...

Other uses

Healer (comics) Morlocks are a group of mutant characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters are usually depicted as being associated with the X-Men in the Marvel Universe. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist ...

, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe * Healer (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a character class in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' *

Healer (gaming) A healer is a type of character class in video gaming. When a game includes a health game mechanic and multiple classes, often one of the classes will be designed around the restoration of allies' health, known as healing, in order to delay or pr ...

, a character type in video games * ''The Healer'', a novel by

Michael Blumlein Michael Blumlein, M.D. (June 28, 1948 - October 24, 2019) was an American fiction writer and a physician. Blumlein attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco and worked as a practicing doctor and member of the facult ...

* ''The Healer'', a novel by Frank G. Slaughter *

Healer (role variant) The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) is a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves and others. It was first introduced in the book '' Please Understand Me''. It is one of the most widely used pers ...

, a role variant of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter * ''Healer'', a science fiction novel by

F. Paul Wilson Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American medical doctor and author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and other genres of literary fiction. His books include the Repairman Jack n ...

Jason (given name) Jason is a common masculine given name. It comes from Greek (), meaning "healer", from the verb (), "heal", "cure", cognate with (), the goddess of healing, and (), "healer", "physician". Forms of related words have been attested in Greek fr ...

, Greek derived name, literally meaning "healer".

Conventional medicine

Alternative medicine

Film and television

Music

Other uses

See also