What is healing? This tricky and difficult question yields elusive answers which depend greatly on the way the question is heard. The question may ask what "healing" is, and it also may ask "what heals?" The verb heal may function in a transitive sense, as in "I heal you" or in an intransitive sense, as in "the body heals". The sense in which we imagine healing makes all the difference in how we imagine what transpires in the therapy room, and how we imagine what transpires will determine what does transpire. Does the therapist heal the patient, does the patient heal himself, or does the patient simply heal? Before we explore the peculiarities of healing's actions, however, we first must venture down into the questionable depths of the word's meaning.