Accounting for the mystery of the placebo effect

Source	https://www.essentiafoundation.org/accounting-for-the-mystery-of-the-placebo-effect/reading/
Author	Steven Pashko, PhD
Published	Yesterday, 10:13 PM
Summary	Medicine still cannot explain the placebo response and treats it as a confound. Drawing on dual information processing theory and Kahneman’s experiencing/remembering selves, Steven Pashko proposes that placebos work by shifting the patient’s attention from the conceptual story about suffering to raw, uninterpreted sensation—and the body responds differently to each mode. If so, the placebo effect exposes a blind spot in Western psychology: a self falsely fixed by the grammar we think in. The sto
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