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Talking cures and placebo effects

Title: Talking cures and placebo effects / David A. Jopling.
Author: Jopling, David A.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Description

xxv, 306 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Talking Cures and Placebo Effects defends the unpopular hypothesis that therapeutic changes in the psychodynamic psychotherapies are sometimes functions of powerful placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers in much the same way that placebo pills rally the body's native healing powers; and that psychodynamic insights and interpretations are themselves placebos. Few clients know this, and fewer still are informed of the potential placebo effects at play in exploratory psychotherapy, and of the consequent risks of self-misinterpretation and self-deception. Thus Talking Cures and Placebo Effects targets a host of problems that lie at the intersection of the epistemology, ethics, scientific status, and public accountability of the talking cures."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

Uniform Title

International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and indexes.

Contents

Placebos and psychotherapy -- Placebo effects -- Self-exploration, insight, and healing -- An alternative hypothesis -- The principle of differentialness -- Some preliminary objections -- Kinds of insight -- Insights true and false -- Case history 1 -- Case history 2 -- Case history 3 -- Insight research -- Clinical psychology's quicksilver -- A formal definition of Insight -- The standard view -- The standard view: a model -- Exploratory validity -- Therapeutic specificity -- Interpretive agency -- Therapeutically effective insight -- Intraclinical Confirmation -- The standard view: criticisms -- A common factors criticism -- A cognitive-psychological criticism -- Introspection, causal self-attribution, and Insight -- Some skeptical criticisms -- Placebos and placebo effects -- Charms and fair words -- The shaman Quesalid -- Janet's theriac -- Contemporary research on placebos -- Beecher's powerful placebo and placebo confounds -- Explanatory approaches -- Shapiro's definition of placebo -- Grünbaum's definition of placebo -- Brody's definition of placebo -- A cognitive definition of placebo -- Insight placebos -- Pseudo-insights -- Philosophical pseudo-insights -- Insight placebos -- Insight artifacts -- Artifactual dreams -- Artifactual beliefs -- Artifactual symptoms -- The narrativist objection -- The identity objection -- Placebos, deception, and self-deception -- Patients' awareness of placebos -- Grünbaum's critique of Freud -- Self-deception -- Open placebos -- The ethics of giving placebos -- The ethics of giving open placebos -- The logic of belief: some hypotheses -- Experimental design with open placebos: hypothesis -- The administration of open placebos: hypothesis -- The neurobiology of open placebo response: hypothesis -- Review of an open placebo study -- The ethics of giving placebos in psychotherapy.

ISBN

9780199239504
0199239509

LCCN

2008299473

OCLC

ocn192027102
192027102
SCSB-9786170

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library