Placebo: Theory, Research, and Mechanisms [Hardcover]

Leonard White (Editor), Bernard Tursky (Editor), Gary E. Schwartz (Editor)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 474 pages
• Publisher: The Guilford Press (August 21, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898626498
• ISBN-13: 978-0898626490
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,272,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D, is a Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona and Director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. He is also Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch. Gary received his PhD from Harvard in 1971, was an Assistant Professor at Harvard, and was a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Yale University and director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center before moving to the University of Arizona in 1988. He has published more than 450 scientific papers, including six papers in the journal SCIENCE, co-edited 11 academic books, and is the author of THE SACRED PROMISE (2011), THE ENERGY HEALING EXPERIMENTS (2007), THE G.O.D. EXPERIMENTS (2006), THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS (2002), THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDIUM(2005), and THE LIVING ENERGY UNIVERSITY (1999). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, The Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society of Behavioral medicine. His research integrates mind-body medicine, energy medicine, and spiritual medicine. His new book THE SACRED PROMISE: How Science is Discovering Spirit's Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives, is his boldest and most challenging work. It provides "evidence-based hope" for the existence of a greater spiritual reality. Visit www.drgaryschwartz.com for information about his books and scientific publications and www.sacredpromiseuniverse.com for DVDs, webseminars, and other opportunities for advancing science and spirit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars They dont know what theyre dealing with, August 2, 1998

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This review is from: Placebo: Theory, Research, and Mechanisms (Hardcover)

The book, though well written and easy to follow, does not begin to touch the power that the mind possesses through Placebo experimentation. None that I have read has. Maybe i should write my own. CHRIS FOY-GOLDSTEIN