The Emperor s New Drugs

The Emperor s New Drugs
Author: Irving Kirsch
Publsiher: Random House
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781409086352

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Everyone knows that antidepressant drugs are miracles of modern medicine. Professor Irving Kirsch knew this as well as anyone. But, as he discovered during his research, there is a problem with what everyone knows about antidepressant drugs. It isn't true. How did antidepressant drugs gain their reputation as a magic bullet for depression? And why has it taken so long for the story to become public? Answering these questions takes us to the point where the lines between clinical research and marketing disappear altogether. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Kirsch accessed clinical trials that were withheld, by drug companies, from the public and from the doctors who prescribe antidepressants. What he found, and what he documents here, promises to bring revolutionary change to the way our society perceives, and consumes, antidepressants. The Emperor's New Drugs exposes what we have failed to see before: depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain; antidepressants are significantly more dangerous than other forms of treatment and are only marginally more effective than placebos; and, there are other ways to combat depression, treatments that don't only include the empty promise of the antidepressant prescription. This is not a book about alternative medicine and its outlandish claims. This is a book about fantasy and wishful thinking in the heart of clinical medicine, about the seductions of myth, and the final stubbornness of facts.

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
Author: David A. Jopling
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2008-05-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780199239504

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Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers.

The Powerful Placebo

The Powerful Placebo
Author: Arthur K. Shapiro,Elaine Shapiro
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2000-10-17
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0801866758

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"The Powerful Placebo" discusses the placebo effect over the centuries, reminding the reader how complex the issue is, from the very definition of a placebo and the success of dubious or fraudulent remedies to the modern worship of placebos as controls in clinical trials. The authors assert that "until recently, the history of medical treatment was essentially the history of placebo effect".

Placebo Effects The Meaning of Care in Medicine

Placebo Effects  The Meaning of Care in Medicine
Author: Pekka Louhiala
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2020-03-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783030273293

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This book provides a perspective on the concepts placebo and placebo effects, which has been missing so far: a detailed analysis of the history of the terms, their current use, suggested alternatives and the implications of the conceptual confusion. Everybody knows something about placebos and placebo effects. If, however, people are asked to define the concepts, the spectrum becomes wide. Does 'placebo' refer to an inert treatment or does it cover all elements of the patient-physician-interaction except for pharmacological or other physiological mechanisms? Furthermore, if, by definition, a placebo has no effect, what sense does it make to talk about a 'placebo effect'? Even in scientific literature the concepts ‘placebo’ and ‘placebo effect’ are used in many senses and often in a confusing way. While this book discusses many issues which keep puzzling physicians, it also covers the historical developments of the concepts of placebo and placebo effect as well as the conceptual confusion in the definitions. This book is intended for physicians, philosophers, psychologists and any other people interested in placebos, placebo effects and the physician-patient relationship.

The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice

The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice
Author: Walter A. Brown,Walter Armin Brown
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780199933853

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The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice brings together what we know about the mechanisms behind the placebo response, as well as the procedures that promote these responses, in order to provide a focused and concise overview on how current knowledge can be applied in treatment settings.

Placebo

Placebo
Author: Leonard White,Bernard Tursky,Gary E. Schwartz
Publsiher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1985-08-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: UCAL:B4952920

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Meaning Medicine and the placebo Effect

Meaning  Medicine  and the  placebo Effect
Author: Daniel E. Moerman
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2002
Genre: Healing
ISBN: OCLC:1076320194

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Surgery the Ultimate Placebo

Surgery  the Ultimate Placebo
Author: Ian Andrew Harris
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016
Genre: Medicine and psychology
ISBN: 1742247679

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