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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kradin, Richard L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine and psychology.

Placebos (Medicine).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies. This book contributes therapeutic effects, varies in potency, and exhibits its own pathologies.

Contents:

Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Placebo Response; Chapter 2. The Basis of the Placebo Response in Sickness and Healing; Chapter 3. A Brief History of Medicine and the Changing Implications of Placebos; Chapter 4. Placebo Effects—Who Gets Them?; Chapter 5. What Do We Know About How Placebos Act?; Chapter 6. The Anomalous Placebo Response; Chapter 7. Placebo and the Truth; Chapter 8. The Challenge of Harnessing the Placebo Response; Back cover;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-91310-2

1-283-04610-5

9786613046109

0-203-93322-2

9780203933220

OCLC:

277047488