When a Placebo Is Not a Placebo: Problems and Solutions to the Gold Standard in Psychotherapy Research

Cosima Locher¹, Jens Gaab¹, Charlotte Blease^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² Program in Placebo Studies, General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, MA, United States.
³ School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Cosima Locher et al. Front Psychol. 2018.

. 2018 Nov 26:9:2317.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02317. eCollection 2018.

Cosima Locher¹, Jens Gaab¹, Charlotte Blease^{2

3}

¹ Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² Program in Placebo Studies, General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, MA, United States.
³ School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

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Keywords: Psychotherapy; clinical trials; common factors; control conditions; ehealth; open-label placebos; placebo.

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