Research Catalog

Title

The placebo response and the power of unconscious healing / Richard Kradin.

Author

Kradin, Richard L.

Publication

New York : Routledge, c2008.

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Description

xv, 278 p. : ill.; 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

• Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
• Placebos (Medicine)
• Mental Healing
• Placebo Effect
• Central Nervous System > physiology
• Placebo's
• Onbewuste cognitieve processen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-264) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The placebo response -- The basis of the placebo response in sickness and healing -- A brief history of medicine and the changing implications of placebos -- Placebo effects: who gets them? -- What do we know about how placebos act? -- The anomalous placebo response -- Placebo and the truth -- The challenge of harnessing the placebo response.

ISBN

• 9780415956185 (hardbound : alk. paper)
• 0415956188 (hardbound : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007048345

OCLC

182613563

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library