1st Edition
The Placebo Response and the Power of Unconscious Healing
Introduction. The Placebo Response: A Matter of Perspective. Sickness and Healing. A Brief History of Medicine and Placebo. Placebo Effects- Who Gets Them? What Do We Know About How Placebos Act? The Anomalous Placebo Response. Placebo and Truth. Harnessing the Placebo Response.
Biography
Richard Kradin, M.D., is a medical physician, immunologist, and psychoanalyst at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has established expertise in mind/body medicine and is former Research Director at the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston, Mass. He has conducted clinical research in the immunotherapy of cancer and has authored more than 200 scholarly articles in the areas of medicine, including psychosomatic disorders and the placebo response.
"[The Placebo Response] is unique, thought provoking, and interesting....Kradin's provocative book reveals the complexities of human nature. He makes a clear case for expanding science to include concepts that go beyond linear causality and reductionism." -Roger P. Greenberg in PsycCRITIQUES, Feb. 4, 2009, Vol. 54, Release 5, Article 4
"Kradin's approach to the placebo effect...is largely straightforward. Kradin does what needs to be done: He gently chides modern medicine for its snigle-minded obsession with physics and linear causation, for its failure to see the person as a whole, and for the hubris routinely practiced by clinicians." -Robert Epstein, University of California, San Diego, in Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 23, No. 3
