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Treatment of Anxiety States

I. The Effects of Suggestion on the Symptoms of Anxiety States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Julian M. Roberts  and
Max Hamilton
Julian M. Roberts
Affiliation:
Leeds University Department of Psychiatry, The General Infirmary at Leeds
Max Hamilton
Affiliation:
Leeds University Department of Psychiatry, The General Infirmary at Leeds
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The increasing importance of properly controlled drug trials in modern medicine has shown the need for further study of the “placebo response” and the effects of “suggestion”, particularly in the evaluation of the results of treatment of the psychoneuroses. Much of the work on the response to placebos has been done on their deleterious side-effects, i.e., the production of symptoms of various kinds, but some recent investigations have clearly demonstrated the amelioration of symptoms by the administration of placebo.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 104 , Issue 437 , October 1958 , pp. 1052 - 1055
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1958 

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