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
“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
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith 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
“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
“Our beliefs and thoughts coalesce into a kind of virtual omnipotence that’s literally divine in its creational ability, allowing it to bring… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“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
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers… — Kat Duff 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
Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death.… — Larry Dossey 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
“What we focus on, what we believe, has a direct effect on the unfolding of actual events—small ones, yes, but large ones… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, we’re doomed or blessed—depending on your perspective—to inhabit an eternally looping circuit that involves our thoughts, innermost desires,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Epigenetics reveals that your body isn’t a genetically predetermined flesh robot, but is regulated by a set of gene switches that can… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“When we focus on positive thoughts, we attract positive experiences into our field of awareness. Conversely, when we dwell on negativity, we… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
