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If the mind is behind the placebo effect, can we cut out the middle man with a treatment of "deciding you are going to get better." If we remove the lie behind
by ericb 15y ago
If the mind is behind the placebo effect, can we cut out the middle man with a treatment of "deciding you are going to get better." If we remove the lie behind the placebo, and it still works--is this then a power we all possess, and have been accessing all along, but didn't understand or acknowledge?
- fferen 15y agoYes, this is what I was thinking. Could we teach people mental techniques to "delude" themselves into getting better? Kinda reminds me of doublethink from 1984.