Energy healing and the placebo effect. An anthropological perspective on the placebo effect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7640811 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann M Ostenfeld-Rosenthal (Aarhus University), Ann Ostenfeld-Rosenthal (Moesgaard Museum, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 327-338 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13648470.2011.646943 |
| PMID | 22292568 |
| OpenAlex | W2049802911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 40 |
The paper deals with a classical anthropological issue, the working mechanisms of rituals and the relation between healing rituals and the placebo effect. The point of departure of the paper is MUS (medically unexplained symptoms) patients' experiences of Danish healing rituals. The aim of the paper is to develop an understanding of how bodily experienced images of body and self work to transform the patient during a healing ritual. It is argued that a bodily founded symbolic re-editing of body- and self-image is an essential skill in healing rituals. In conclusion, it is argued that the placebo is nothing but the effectiveness of bodily experienced symbols
Alternative medicine · Energy (signal processing · Pathology · Perspective (graphical · Placebo · Statistics · Computer Science · Diet and metabolism studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Pain Management and Placebo Effect · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Placebo
Biodynamic Viticulture, or The Effectiveness of Symbols
Ethnographie imaginative
The emergence of trust in clinics of alternative medicine
Attempting to define placebos and their effects
Researching Alternative and Complementary Therapies
"Making Moves" in a Cardiac ICU
Psychedelics are no magic pill
Medical anthropology and symbolic cure
Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
Meaning Medicine and the “Placebo Effect”
The Powerful Placebo
Deconstructing the Placebo Effect and Finding the Meaning Response
The cultural diversity of healing
The Interpretation of Cultures
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Pain as Human Experience
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The Sacred Self
Culture, Health and Illness
"Sociosomatics"
Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice
Why do indigenous practitioners successfully heal
Reconsidering the Placebo Response from a Broad Anthropological Perspective
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
Too Many, Too Few
Ritual Healing in Suburban America
The placebo effect
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Knowledge of the Body
The Savage Mind
Ritual
Perspectives of the Placebo Phenomenon
Universal Aspects of Symbolic Healing
Toward a Medical Anthropology of Sensations
Healing and the invention of metaphor
Body/Meaning/Healing
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |