The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Hope alone is a placebo, that can lead to grief For hope without effort, seldom brings relief” — Gil Gonzales Copy Share Image
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time… — Brian Molko 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“Subliminal cuing and unconscious priming influence numerous behaviors unrelated to this book. People think potato chips taste better when hearing crunching sounds.… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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
... 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 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
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
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