How Expectancies Shape Experience

by Irving Kirsch (Editor)

Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs. Discusses how response expectancies account for symptom maintenance, motivation and change in areas such as asthma, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction and smoking. Also addresses positive and negative mood states and coping. Overall, attempts to explain the power of placebo effects in medication and psychotherapy research. For clinicians.

431 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999

Reviews

[Jillybb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tremendous contribution to the field.