Research Catalog
The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing
- Title
- The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing / Richard Kradin.
- Author
- Kradin, Richard L.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, [2008], ©2008.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RM331 .K73 2008 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- xv, 278 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Placebo responses are both automatic and unconscious - which is to say that they can neither be controlled nor accurately predicted. They represent a complex interaction among the innate reward system of the brain, stored memories, and imaginal fantasies. The placebo response is an inextricable part of virtually all therapeutic effects; it varies in potency and exhibits its own pathologies." "The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing examines how the elements required to provoke placebo responses overlap with what most modern psychotherapies consider to be therapeutic, i.e., interpersonal dynamics rooted in concern, trust, and empathy. Educating caregivers to optimize placebo responses is considered a crucial feature of both the art and science of therapeutics."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Placebo Response -- 2. The Basis of the Placebo Response in Sickness and Healing -- 3. A Brief History of Medicine and the Changing Implications of Placebos -- 4. Placebo Effects - Who Gets Them? -- 5. What Do We Know about How Placebos Act? -- 6. The Anomalous Placebo Response -- 7. Placebo and the Truth -- 8. The Challenge of Harnessing the Placebo Response.
- ISBN
- 9780415956185 (hardbound : alk. paper)
- 0415956188 (hardbound : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007048345
- OCLC
- ocn182613563
- 182613563
- SCSB-14174117
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries