I'm with you, juan. Wholistic is exactly what is meant and that it seems the only reason one looks for a different word here is *someone else has stolen it for alterior definitions/motives.

As science has derobed the personally beneficial effects of laughter, hope and providing care for others, it leads me to anticipate finding that isolation, resentment and despair slowly whittle away at ones whole...

[music]...you've got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative...[/music]

...ba-da-Bing!