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Factors Predisposing to a Placebo Response in New Out-patients with Anxiety States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

A. A. Black
A. A. Black*
Affiliation:
Long Grove Hospital, Epsom, Surrey, Institute of Psychiatry, The Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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Whenever one person seeks to influence the behaviour of another, the outcome may be affected by a multiplicity of factors. When the deliberate manipulation of one of these is followed by a given response, we regard the manoeuvre as specific and causal for that event. While this conclusion is acceptable logically, in practice it frequently proves to be misleading because certain implicit assumptions are overlooked.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 487 , June 1966 , pp. 557 - 567
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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