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HARRIET B. LINTON, Ph.D.; ROBERT J. LANGS, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;6(5):369-383.

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There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the reactions of placebo subjects under a wide range of conditions.^{3,9,10,16-19, 22,24} Indications that, after administration of an inert substance, certain persons report relief of pain or other therapeutic responses, as well as a wide range of subjective and "psychosomatic" effects, form the main basis for this interest.^3,6,9,16,24 These observations are important both for studies of drug action and for more general studies of human functioning.

In a recent review of the pharmacology of placebos, Wolf²⁴ discussed the mechanism of placebo reactions and stated that "the fundamental stimulus is the meaningful situation." In keeping with this view, responses to placebo administration will be viewed by us as responses to the stimulus conditions in their totality, which we will refer to as "the placebo situation." There are many relevant factors which determine a person's response to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Research Center for Mental Health, New York University.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 11, 1961.

A brief version of this paper was presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, April 8, 1961.

This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health under Grant MY-3670, and was done while the junior author was a Senior Interdisciplinary Fellow under U.S. Public Health Service Grant 2M-6418 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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