Thanks for the news post Jeff. I don't doubt the placebo effect, I
recognize the problems of assessing treatment efficacy, and agree that
traditional healers have much in common with clinical workers. I am
wondering why no mention was made of cognitive-behavioral treatment however.
I don't have refs handy but had thought that it had demonstrated superiority
over psychoanalysis? Gary Peterson
Gerald (Gary) L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Saginaw Valley State University
University Center, MI 48710
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> The psychiatrist Jerome Frank warned in his classic book
>"Persuasion and
> Healing" that the placebo effect might be the primary factor
>underlying all
> psychiatric remedies. The latest research supports Dr. Frank's
>finding:
> psychiatrists, psychologists and other "scientific" healers
>are really exploiting
> the power of human belief, just as shamans and witch doctors
>do.
>
>
> John Horgan is the author of ``The End of Science'' and the forthcoming
> ``The Undiscovered Mind.''
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