The Placebo Effect in Alternative Medicine: Can the Performance of a Healing Ritual Have Clinical Significance?

By Ted J. Kaptchuk. Annals of Internal Medicine, 2002

658 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Complementary and alternative medicine, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Armin W. Geertz
2. Irving Kirsch
3. C. Bernstein
4. Bruno Bonaz
5. Maryanne Garry
6. R. Michael
7. Donald D. Price
8. Ted J. Kaptchuk

In Complementary and alternative medicine

1. Armin W. Geertz
2. Irving Kirsch
3. C. Bernstein
4. Bruno Bonaz
5. Maryanne Garry
6. R. Michael
7. Ted J. Kaptchuk

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Armin W. Geertz
2. Irving Kirsch
3. C. Bernstein
4. Bruno Bonaz
5. David R. Williams

Citations in the corpus

• Brain, Body and Culture: A Biocultural Theory of Religion (2010, background): “…placebo-generating health care systems that thrive on performative efficacy which in turn relies on “the power of belief, imagination, symbols, meaning, expectation, persuasion, and selfrelationship” (Kaptchuk 2002: 817-818).4 I suggest that most traditional healing systems are also placebo dramas.”
• Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (2008, methodology): “We chose irritable bowel syndrome for this study because we suspected that non-specific effects are most likely to be demonstrable in disorders defined by subjective symptoms rather than more objective measures of disease.”
• The Mechanisms of Manual Therapy in the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Pain: A Comprehensive Model (2008, background): “Additionally, variables such as placebo, expectation, and psychosocial factors may be pertinent in the mechanisms of MT (Ernst, 2000; Kaptchuk, 2002).”
• Brain-gut interactions in inflammatory bowel disease. (2013, background): “The placebo response in IBD is further evidence that IBD can be modulated by the patient’s perception of events external to their intrinsic disease (166-168).”
• Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Religion and Spirituality for Health Research (2003, background): “The power of the placebo effect, a change in a patient's illness attributable to the symbolic import of a treatment rather than a specific pharmacologic or physiological property, is a familiar feature of medical practice and research (Kaptchuk 2002; Papakostas and Daras 2001; Turner et al. 1994).”
• Suggestion, Cognition, and Behavior (2012, background): “, 2008) or the rituals of a healing procedure (Kaptchuk, 2002).”