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Placebo Control Treatments and the Evaluation of Psychotherapy: A Reply to Grünbaum and Erwin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

John D. Greenwood
John D. Greenwood*
Affiliation:
Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, City College & Graduate School, City University of New York
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Abstract

In this paper, I respond to some criticisms of Greenwood (1996) advanced by Grünbaum (1996) and Erwin (1996). I argue that Grünbaum's problematic account of “placebo effects” and placebo control treatments does not really address, far less resolve, the problems with experimental evaluations of psychotherapy documented in my original paper.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 64 , Issue 3 , September 1997 , pp. 497 - 510
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1997

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Footnotes

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Thanks to Professor Grünbaum for permission to quote a passage from a recent personal communication.

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