ON-DEMAND TALK

The Placebo Response

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Richard Kradin
TOPIC
Deep Insights
Format
Talk
DURATION
±1hr 30min

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Dr. Kradin shares his findings on the healing power of the placebo response. He discusses the scientifically proven mind/body connection demonstrated by placebos, and looks at the ways they can enhance or retard medicinal and mental health therapy.

Talk Description

Dr. Richard Kradin is one of the US’s foremost experts in mind-body medicine, a research immunologist, Jungian analyst, and former Research Director of the Harvard Medical School Mind/Body Medical Institute. He explores the question of how the placebo works, and why it works.

In this lecture he poses arguably the most important question in the world of medicine today: what triggers the healing response?

Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system and memories and imaginal fantasies. The placebo response contributes inextricably to virtually all therapeutic effects, varies in potency, and likely exhibits its own pathologies. The Placebo Response further considers that the critical elements required to provoke placebo responses overlap substantially with what most current psychotherapies consider to be therapeutic, i.e. an interpersonal dynamic rooted in concern, trust and empathy.

The potential importance of training caregivers in how to optimize placebo responses is considered a crucial feature of both the art and science of care-giving.

This TALK is ideal if you want to:

  • Understand placebo response and how it relates to mental health therapy.
  • Understand the body-mind connection.
  • Learn ways to trigger and elicit the healing response.

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
1 video & 1 audio recording
Accurate Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Richard Kradin

Dr. Richard Kradin is one of the United States’ foremost experts in mind-body medicine, a research immunologist, Jungian analyst, former Research Director of the Harvard Medical School Mind/Body Medical Institute, and the author of The Placebo Response. He is also an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.

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