Control Quote by Keith R. Holden M.D

Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body…

— Larry Dossey

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

— Irving Kirsch

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

— Matthieu Ricard

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee,…

— Irving Kirsch

“The placebo effect has an evil twin known as the nocebo effect. This is when the expectation of harm or pain becomes a self-fulfilling…

— Christian Jarrett

“Whether we like it or not, we’re walking placebo and nocebo generators, able to create health miracles or disasters (usually without even realizing we’re…

— Sol Luckman

“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced reality. These…

— Sol Luckman

Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at…

— Clair Davies

“Imagine what we could accomplish if modern medicine combined the best that allopathic medicine has to offer, the Placebo Effect and the benefits of…

— Paige Singleton

I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it…

— Kat Duff

The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your…

— Ben Goldacre

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect…

— Bruce H. Lipton