ReviewFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2021
Healing in a Social Context: The Importance of Clinician and Patient Relationship.
Review in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The alliance in mental health care: conceptualization, evidence and clinical applications.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2023Article
- The cultural change narrative as a core component of therapeutic change.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Using contextual factors to elicit placebo and nocebo effects: An online survey of healthcare providers' practice.PloS one · 2023Observational
- Translation of the working alliance inventory short revised into Italian using a Delphi procedure and a forward-backward translation.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Unpacking Relational Dignity: In Pursuit of an Ethic of Care for Outdoor Therapies.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
When a patient presents to a health provider, the course of the disorder is composed of three effects: natural effects, specific effects, and contextual effects. Part of the contextual effect is due to the relationship between the healer and the patient. Social healing appears to be present in eusocial species and particularly well-developed in humans. Evidence for the importance of the relationship in healing is found in placebo studies, including placebo analgesics, medicine, and psychotherapy. Although the theory for how the relationship is therapeutic is not well-developed, four possible mechanisms are discussed. The implications for health care and the treatment of pain are discussed.
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