How to put hypnosis into a placebo pill?

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-54

  Gholamrezaei, Ali ^a,b   Emami, Mohammad Hassan ^a,b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Poursina Hakim Research Institute   (Iran)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Hypnotherapy; Placebo Controlled

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PLACEBO EFFECT; RELAXATION TRAINING;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; PLACEBO EFFECT;

EID: 40649094044     PISSN: 09652299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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