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Harnessing The Placebo Effect: A New Model For Mind-Body Healing Mechanisms, Gabriel Crane Jan 2016

Harnessing The Placebo Effect: A New Model For Mind-Body Healing Mechanisms, Gabriel Crane

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

The placebo effect is a phenomenon that has confounded Western medicine and research for over sixty years. While the field has historically and continues to be rife with misconceptions and confusion, recent research aims to reignite the art of medicine by turning the effect's underlying mechanisms to therapeutic benefit. However, researchers may not have the appropriate theoretical framework to do so. While significant progress has been made in identifying a number of the placebo effect's underlying mechanisms, conceptual deficiencies hinder application of advances in the field. In part, this is because the placebo effect unearths a number of problematic philosophical …


Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer Oct 2004

Heads Or Tails: Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Consensus-Seeking Roundtable On Placebos In Clinical Research, Charles Weijer Dec 1998

Consensus-Seeking Roundtable On Placebos In Clinical Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Down With Placebolatry, Charles Weijer, Carl Elliott Mar 1996

Down With Placebolatry, Charles Weijer, Carl Elliott

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.