Psychic surgery is a procedure typically involving the apparent creation of an incision using only the bare hands, the apparent removal of pathological matter, and the seemingly spontaneous healing of the incision. Psychic surgery has been condemned in many countries as a form of medical fraud. It has been denounced by the US Federal Trade Commission as a "total hoax", and the American Cancer Society maintains that psychic surgery may cause needless death by keeping the ill away from life-saving medical care.Medical professionals and skeptics consider it sleight of hand and any positive results a placebo effect.

Psychic surgery might be more accurately described as cleansing the human body.

Psychic surgery originated in the Philippine Islands. Psychic surgery is performed through the mind and spirit of the healer. In a visionary experience, the healer has been given the gift of healing and psychic surgery by the Holy Spirit.

In psychic surgery the healer uses the mind to concentrate spiritual power through the hands into the body of the patient. The healer, in semi-trance, or meditative state, has his hands guided by the spirit. The spirit detects those parts of the body in which disease is developing and injects spiritual energy into those parts. At times the spirit causes the healer's hands to enter the body and attract diseased tissue. This tissue is pulled out without leaving a wound or scar. The tissue closes as the hands are taken out of the body. Energy projected from the healer's hands opens body tissue much as an orthodox surgeon uses a scalpel to do the same thing. This energy appears to harmonize with the patient's body as the body is entered.

Spiritual energy is used to enhance those parts of the body that have been depleted by injury caused through emotional or mental trauma, physical trauma or dietary or chemical trauma. Spiritual trauma might also be a cause. Spiritual energy used in the surgery appears to heal that injury. Spiritual energy can, seemingly, do only good. No anaesthetic is used in psychic surgery. The relaxation response of the patient is enough. No pain is felt. Spiritual energy is cleansing and cannot contaminate.

There appears to be no risk of cross-infection or open-wound infection. There is not the risk, as in orthodox surgery, of accidental trauma if a scalpel should slip.

There are no complications of resuscitation or post-operative care. The patient can get up and leave the site immediately after the procedure. Psychic surgery usually takes no more than a few minutes. Many patients can be treated during each healing session.

During the psychic experience, the ailing subject usually lies on a table and submits their physical body to be healed by the surgeon. For example, if the patient comes to the psychic surgeon with some form of cancer, a witness would watch as the hands of the surgeon seem to disappear into the body and extract a bloody, cancerous piece of flesh - which is believed to be the offending tumour. Although blood appears during the procedure, no incision is ever made into the skin. There is little or no bleeding other than what remains on the diseased tissue after it is removed. A patient is conscious throughout the procedure.

Some of the adjustments may include spinal adjustment, removal of tumours or cancerous growths, alignment of bones, adjustment of internal organs such as uterus, ovaries, kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart, among others.