“Whether we like it or not, we’re walking placebo and nocebo generators, able to create health miracles or disasters (usually without even… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos… — Richard Dawkins 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
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
The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — 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
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre 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
“Although I'm an atheist, I try not to crap all over people's belief in God. It may be nothing more than a… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in… — Matthieu Ricard 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
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery and confusion. Admitting to relishing… — Chloe Govan 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
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
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
... 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
