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The Doctor-Patient Relationship Revisited
An Analysis of the Placebo Effect
Abstract
An overview of prescientific medicine, evolution, and individual human development is presented in an attempt to discover the generic factors operating in all interpersonal therapies. We hypothesize that the placebo effect rests on the universal human need for a group and, by symbolic extension, a system.
Article and Author Information
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▸From the Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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▸Requests for reprints should be addressed to Herbert M. Adler, M.D., 251 Linden La., Merion Station, PA 19066.
