Placebo. Why does it work that does not work?: Barbara Dolinskaya

The placebo effect has attracted the attention of researchers over the years and stimulated their interest in studying it. They managed to learn a lot, but a lot is still under the veil of secrets. But no one has doubts the fact of the existence of this effect. In her book, B. Dolinskaya collected the most interesting and sometimes most inexplicable, scientific point of view, facts about placebo: the history of the origin of the word, a placebo as the basis for assessing the effectiveness of drugs, personal characteristics that contribute to the emergence of a placebo, the role of positive expectations, suggestion and self -hypnosis, the influence of the appearance of the medicine and the strength of the placebo, placebo and buttsebo, the effect placebo in neuropsychology, ethical aspects of the use (or not use) placebo.
This book, first of all, is addressed to doctors, psychologists, pharmacists, psychotherapists, athletes, as well as all those who would like to learn more about this mysterious phenomenon, and it is better to understand the mechanisms of its action.

Author
Dolinskaya Barbara
Editor
Gritchina Oksana Viktorovna
Translator
Bonk katazhina Anna
Publisher
Humanitarian Center, 2015
Series
Psychology. Organization. Staff