Placebos Are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem. An Exemplification of the Case of Antidepressants in Pediatric Chronic Pain Conditions

Front Psychiatry. 2020 Jan 21:10:998. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00998. eCollection 2019.

Cosima Locher^{1

2

3}, Jens Gaab¹, Charlotte Blease⁴, Marc Inderbinen¹, Linda Kost¹, Helen Koechlin^{1

2}

¹ Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
³ School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom.
⁴ OpenNotes Keane Scholar, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: adolescents; antidepressants; children; chronic pain; open-label placebo.