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The placebo response complex
Author(s) -
Kradin Richard
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-8774.2004.00492.x
Subject(s) - mirroring , attunement , psychology , placebo , placebo response , psychotherapist , psychological intervention , feeling , anxiety , nocebo , psychoanalysis , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology
Placebo effects contribute to beneficial therapeutic responses and are common in anxiety and depressive disorders. It is posited that placebo effects are yielded by autonomous feeling‐toned complexes capable of re‐establishing background self‐states of well‐being . The relationship between the placebo response complex and modern neurobiological models of self is explored. The psychological roots of the placebo response complex in implicit memories of organized attachment between child and early caretakers and in Sandler's conception of the benign superego are examined. The relationships between the negative placebo (nocebo) response complex, Freud's negative therapeutic reaction , and Fordham's defence of the self are explored. Finally, it is suggested that approaches fundamental to the analytic encounter, e.g., mirroring, affectual exchanges, attunement, and containment are likely to optimize the salutary effects of both psychological and somatic therapeutic interventions.