When a Placebo Is Not a Placebo: Problems and Solutions to the Gold Standard in Psychotherapy Research

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ² Program in Placebo Studies, General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, MA, United States.
• ³ School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.