Year: 1973
Type: article
Abstract: An overview of prescientific medicine, evolution, and individual human development is presented in an attempt to discover the generic factors operating in all interpersonal therapies. We hypothesize that the placebo effect rests on the universal human need for a group and, by symbolic extension, a system.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine
Authors: HERBERT M. ADLER, VAN BUREN O. HAMMETT
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2010116786