“Hope alone is a placebo, that can lead to grief For hope without effort, seldom brings relief” — Gil Gonzales Copy Share Image
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
“Time is a placebo medication, it only helps you if you believe it can, it only heals you if you let it.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection. — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works! — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“The seemingly impossible can become possible! You Are the Placebo, the new book by Dr. Joe Dispenza” — Dr. Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“With a drug trial, everyone gets the exact same pill or the exact same placebo. With therapy, you can’t separate the tools… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
Consider the clinicaltrials by which drugs are tested in human subjects.5 Before a new drug can enter the market, its manufacturer must… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
“This book is also not about denial. None of the methods you’ll read about here involve denying whatever health condition you may… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
“One clear-cut fact does, however, emerge: placebos, prescribed for a paranoid schizophrenic by his authority referent, had served to inhibit for approximately… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“When conventional medicine fails, when we must confront pain and death, of course we are open to other prospects for hope. And,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medication of for whom the side… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
“The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes… — Christian Jarrett Copy Share Image
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Placebo from the garden of Eden. Rub it on bone watch the skin grow. Blissful cocktail makes a god from heathens. Changing… — Angelspit Copy Share Image
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the… — Paige Singleton Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
