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The placebo effect in healing

Title: The placebo effect in healing / Michael Jospe.
Author: Jospe, Michael.
Publication: Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, ©1978.

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Description

xvii, 170 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book will examine critically and attempt not only to integrate experimental investigations of the placebo effect in both medicine and psychotherapy, but also to account theoretically for its modus operandi. -- from Introduction.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 151-162.

Contents

A historical perspective -- The physical characteristics of the placebo itself -- The laboratory study of the placebo effect in nonpatient subjects and placebos and analgesia -- The psychology of illness and the ecological validity of placebo experiments -- Studies of placebo effects in clinical situations -- The search for the personality of the placebo reactor -- Situational analyses of the placebo effect -- The placebo effect in psychotherapy -- Perspectives on some methodological problems in placebo research -- Some further theoretical perspectives on the placebo effect -- Overview and coda.

ISBN

066901611X
9780669016116

LCCN

77006582

OCLC

ocm03362441
3362441
SCSB-9829288

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library