Understanding the Placebo Effect in Complementary Medicine: Theory, Practice and Research

Part One: Theory.
Medical Anthropology Perspectives.
Th e Mind/Brain/Body Connection. The Clinical Impact of Placebo Response s – A Review.

Part Two: Clinical Implications.
Can We Optim ise Non-Specific Effects? Transference Cures, Post-Modernism, Potencies and Placebos.
Transforming the Impossible Patient? Mind, Models and Methods, Therapeutic Touch and the Placebo Response.
Complementary M edicine Effectiveness Beyond the Placebo Response.

Part Three: M odels for Research.
Unpicking the Tapestry, Research Into the Placeb o Response.
Placebo Response and the Participative World View