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Experimental Studies of the Placebo Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. B. Knowles  and
C. J. Lucas
J. B. Knowles
Affiliation:
Clinical Psychiatry Research Group Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester
C. J. Lucas
Affiliation:
Clinical Psychiatry Research Group Graylingwell Hospital, Chichester
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The critical evaluation of new drugs or remedies against inert substances or nonspecific procedures has led to the recognition that responses to a placebo are important in their own right. Such responses may be dramatic and persistent and they can be associated with quite definite physiological changes (Wolf and Pinsky, 1954). The placebo response may well be an important component of many established treatments both physical and psychological, and does in itself constitute a means of therapy (Roberts and Hamilton, 1958; Gliedman et al., 1958).

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 106 , Issue 442 , January 1960 , pp. 231 - 240
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1960 

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