Placebo Quotes - Page 2

• The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

  Irving Kirsch

  Placebo Effect, Doctors, Patient

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• I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

  Irving Kirsch

  Pain, Placebo Effect, Research

  "Interview: Irving Kirsch showed power of placebo effect with antidepressant use". Interview with Brian Morton, Kevin Griffin, www.vancouversun.com. September 24, 2013.

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• There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

  Chris Kilham

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• Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

  Brian Molko

  Members, Sexiest

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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
  Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  Brian Molko

  Real, Believe, Giving

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• Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What's more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Confused, Placebo Effect

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• Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God. Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren. Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives. We move in either frightened panic or deluded lethargy as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos. If there is no center, there is no circumference.

  Edmund Clowney

  Moving, Sirens, Panic

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• Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.

  Bernie Siegel

  Hair, Giving, Nausea

  "The Power of Words: Revising the Doctor-Patient Relationship" by Bernie Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist."

  Kenny Smith

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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