ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
The Other Side of the Coin: Nocebo Effects and Psychotherapy.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- What are the Key Characteristics of a 'Good' Psychotherapy? Calling for Ethical Patient Involvement.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Comparing adaptive tablet-based cognitive training and paper-and-pencil cognitive training: a pilot randomized controlled trial with community-dwelling stroke survivors.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Psychotherapy and placebo have a long history, and both have been shown to have significant and clinically meaningful effects. In the last 100 years and up to today, psychotherapy has been subject to an enduring and often heated debate about its mechanisms and its possible relationship to placebos and their effects. However, there is little awareness of the placebo effects' counterpart-nocebo effects (from Latin "I will harm")-in the context of psychotherapy. Embedded in the controversy of whether psychotherapy and placebo share some unwanted proximity in terms of effects and mechanisms, the question arises which role nocebo effects may play in relation to psychotherapy. By using two examples, this article analyzes and discusses two different kinds of possible associations between psychotherapy and nocebo effects. We close with possibilities of how to prevent the occurrence of nocebo effects in psychotherapy, including some specific recommendations for clinical practice.
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