Talking cures and placebo effects - Jopling, David A. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-295) and indexes
Placebos and psychotherapy -- Placebo effects -- Self-exploration, insight, and healing -- An alternative hypothesis -- The principle of differentialness -- Some preliminary objections -- Kinds of insight -- Insights true and false -- Case history 1 -- Case history 2 -- Case history 3 -- Insight research -- Clinical psychology's quicksilver -- A formal definition of Insight -- The standard view -- The standard view: a model -- Exploratory validity -- Therapeutic specificity -- Interpretive agency -- Therapeutically effective insight -- Intraclinical Confirmation -- The standard view: criticisms -- A common factors criticism -- A cognitive-psychological criticism -- Introspection, causal self-attribution, and Insight -- Some skeptical criticisms -- Placebos and placebo effects -- Charms and fair words -- The shaman Quesalid -- Janet's theriac -- Contemporary research on placebos -- Beecher's powerful placebo and placebo confounds -- Explanatory approaches -- Shapiro's definition of placebo -- Grünbaum's definition of placebo -- Brody's definition of placebo -- A cognitive definition of placebo -- Insight placebos -- Pseudo-insights -- Philosophical pseudo-insights -- Insight placebos -- Insight artifacts -- Artifactual dreams -- Artifactual beliefs -- Artifactual symptoms -- The narrativist objection -- The identity objection -- Placebos, deception, and self-deception -- Patients' awareness of placebos -- Grünbaum's critique of Freud -- Self-deception -- Open placebos -- The ethics of giving placebos -- The ethics of giving open placebos -- The logic of belief: some hypotheses -- Experimental design with open placebos: hypothesis -- The administration of open placebos: hypothesis -- The neurobiology of open placebo response: hypothesis -- Review of an open placebo study -- The ethics of giving placebos in psychotherapy