Irving Kirsch
The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
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2009
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How Expectancies Shape Experience
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1999
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Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (Dissociation, Trauma, Memory, and Hypnosis Book Series)
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1999
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Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Application
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2006
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The Emperor's New Drugs Brain Shot
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2010
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Changing Expectations: A Key to Effective Psychotherapy
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1990
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Antidepresan Efsanesinin Sonu
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Suggestion and the Power of Belief
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2007
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Sex therapy
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1973
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抗うつ薬は本当に効くのか
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“Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to abnormal situations. Poverty, unemployment, and the loss of loved ones can make people depressed, and these social and situational causes of depression cannot be changed by drugs.”
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
“Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning response. At least part of the improvement that is produced by these treatments is due to the relationship between the therapist and the client and to the client's expectancy of getting better. That is a problem for antidepressant treatment. It is a problem because drugs are supposed to work because of their chemistry, not because of the psychological factors. But it is not a problem for psychotherapy. Psychotherapists are trained to provide a warm and caring environment in which therapeutic change can take place. Their intention is to replace the hopelessness of depression with a sense of hope and faith in the future. These tasks are part of the essence of psychotherapy. The fact that psychotherapy can mobilize the meaning response - and that it can do so without deception - is one of its strengths, no one of its weaknesses. Because hopelessness is a fundamental characteristic of depression, instilling hope is a specific treatment for it it. Invoking the meaning response is essential for the effective treatment of depression, and the best treatments are those that can do this most effectively and that can do without deception.”
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
“When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced by an external substance, but by changes within the person. It is like learning to read, write or ride a bicycle. Once you have learned, the skills stays with you. People no not become illiterate after they graduate from school, and if they get rusty at riding a bicycle, the skill can be acquired with relatively little practice. Furthermore, part of what a person might learn in therapy is to expect downturns in mood and to interpret them as a normal part of their life, rather than as an indication of an underlying disorder. This understanding, along with the skills that the person has learned for coping with negative moods and situations, can help to prevent a depressive relapse.”
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
― The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth
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