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Title: The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing
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| The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing by Routledge A thorough scientific study which integrates mind-body understanding of the human species |
| A most important text for the layreader, as well as for those in the medical profession. Although the medical profession has become focused on reductionism, Dr. Kradin has dedicated himself to understanding the totality of the human condition. While the current practice of medicine has brought us many advances, he points out that it has many limitations as well. There are few physicians who have Dr. Kradin's unusually broad training and experience. This book is written with the knowledge of a scientist and professor of medicine, who has spent years conducting clinical trials and studies; the experience of a practicing physician, who has personally treated patients; the compassion and understanding of a psychotherapist; and the insight of a philosopher. He takes the reader on a journey back to the birth of medicine, when placebos were a focal point in the healing of dis-ease, and then transports us back to the current trends in medicine, while citing a myriad of studies in several important areas. This book should be required reading for all medical students who truly wish to become successful healers and all patients who wish to form a greater understanding of the true path to healing. |
| The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing by Routledge Placebo IS Medicine |
| This book is a must-read for anyone in the health care business - either from the giving or the receiving end (that would include just about everyone on the planet). Its insights are intuitive and common sense - with strong scientific bases. It seems that the placebo response is an almost universal, natural human healing phenomenon that we all have, to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the strength of our early maternal attachment. Basically, sickness responds to the successful recreation of our original state of well-being. This means that effective health care providers can generate a therapeutic response merely by evoking this state, and health care seekers can start the self-healing process by finding empathic, communicative doctors. This book shows how medicine and placebo are inextricably intertwined, and points the way to a better mind/body understanding. |
| The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing by Routledge The Power of Placebo |
| Dr. Kradin presents an integrated theory of the placebo response in this well researched analysis of the placebo effect from ancient times to the present. He provides a methodical and persuasive basis for the position that the placebo response is much more than random reactions by suggestible patients to sugar pills or sham surgery - it is a self-regulating shift away from mind/body dysfunction and a return to a normal state of well-being that can be generated by most humans. The placebo response is a vital self-healing mechanism that is already involved in much of medicine - and this book may transform our approach to the practice of medicine. |
| The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing by Routledge Product Description |
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and encoded procedural memories and imaginal fantasies. The placebo response contributes inextricably to virtually all therapeutic effects, varies in potency, and likely exhibits its own pathologies. The Placebo Response further considers that the critical elements required to provoke placebo responses overlap substantially with what most current psychotherapies consider to be therapeutic, i.e. an interpersonal dynamic rooted in concern, trust and empathy. The potential importance of training caregivers in how to optimize placebo responses is considered a crucial feature of both the art and science of care-giving. |
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