Research

"The Healing Power of Placebos," United States Food & Drug Administration

"Placebos Power Goes Beyond The Mind", MSNBC.

The Mysterious Placebo by John E. Dodes

The placebo effect is the healing force of nature by G. Zajicek

The Mysterious Placebo Effect by Carol Hart Modern Drug Discovery July/August 1999

Kirsch, Irving , Ph.D. and Guy Sapirstein, Ph.D. "Listening to Prozac but Hearing Placebo: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Medication"  Prevention & Treatment, Volume 1, June 1998.

The Placebo Prescription - New York Times Magazine 1/09/2000

Sham Surgery Returns as a Research Tool by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times 4/25/1999

"Placebo Effect Accounts For Fifty Percent Of Improvement In Depressed Patients Taking Antidepressants" by the American Psychological Association

"Placebo Effects Prove the Value of Suggestion" by Charles Henderson, Ph.D. (Interesting experiment on subliminal advertising.)

Is Prescribing Placebos Ethical? experts argue the pros and cons

Sternberg, Esther M. and Philip W. Gold. "The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease," Scientific American," special issue "Mysteries of the Mind," (January 1997). 

Engel, Linda W. et al. The Science of the Placebo - Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda ( BMJ Books, 2002).

Fisher, Seymour and Roger P. Greenberg. eds. From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the Test (John Wiley and Sons, 1997).

Hróbjartsson, Asbøjrn and Peter C. Götzsche. "Is the Placebo Powerless? An Analysis of Clinical Trials Comparing Placebo with No Treatment," The New England Journal of Medicine, May 24, 2001 (Vol. 344, No. 21). Abstract.

Harrington, Anne. ed. The Placebo Effect: An Interdisciplinary Exploration (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Jerome, Lawrence E. Crystal Power - The Ultimate Placebo Effect (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1996).

Moerman, Daniel E.  (2002). Meaning, Medicine and the 'Placebo Effect'. Cambridge University Press.

Skrabanek, Petr, Ph.D. and James McCormick, M.D. (1990). Follies & Fallacies in Medicine. Prometheus.

Ogelsby, Dr. Paul. The Caring Physician: The Life of Dr. Francis W. Peabody (Harvard University Press, 1991).

Shapiro, Arthur K. and Elaine. The Powerful Placebo: From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Stanovich, Keith E. How to Think Straight About Psychology, 3rd ed., (New York: Harper Collins, 1992).

Thompson, W. Grant. (2005). The Placebo Effect and Health - Combining Science and Compassionate Care. Prometheus.

White, Leonard, Bernard Tursky and Gary Schwartz. Placebo: Theory Research, and Mechanisms, ed.  (New York: Guilford Press, 1985).

"Expectation is a powerful thing. "The more you believe you're going to benefit from a treatment, the more likely you'll experience a benefit."

Dr. Robert DeLap,

Office of Drug Evaluation

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"Today's brain imagery techniques support the theory that thoughts and beliefs not only affect one's psychological state, but also cause the body to undergo actual biological changes."

Food & Drug Administration

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"There is no question that placebos are pain relieving, and in some cases the pain relief from a placebo might be more profound than pain relief from a standard analgesic."

Dr. Scott Fishman,

Past President of the American Academy

of Pain Medicine

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