The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health

This book is loaded with information about the Placebo response. This book proves in many ways that a placebo response does take place in the human mind & body. It's good info for physicians, patients, psychologists. You will learn about how even a negative placebo response can happen, psychoneuroimmunology, getting well by forgiveness, & much more. It's a fascinating subject.

Every young intern wanting to become a good and effective doctor or nurse should read this book. Although the theme of this book is about the latest research and the applications of the Placebo phenomenon in medical healing,any reader of this book will surely sense this reccuring message that the sincere carings, genuine efforts,and empathy communicated by the medical care-giver as a positive message to the patient can actually stimulates the bodies's inner healing power,reinforcing the patient's positive mental response and faith towards the medication/treatment.

This book contains amazing info about placebo, research, and the practice of medicine.I found it hard to get into his using-the-placebo-effect-for-your-own-health section... and it seemed kind of awkward that the book was divided in half... half-research and discussion, and the other half application...But it's well worth it for the first part.