[mattstreet]

Professions who help people just by listening. It has been shown that most of the positive benefit people experience from many of these therapies is just the fact of having someone that cares (or at least appears to) listen to your problems for an hour and provide support.

[mkr-hn]

Palliative care is a part of mainstream medicine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care

Another example of real alternative medicine becoming mainstream.