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This article reviews the role of positive expectations, including those engendered by placebos, in symptom relief following medical and surgical procedures, and psychotherapy. Viewing biofeedback as instrument-aided psychotherapy, its procedures are considered in the light of their ability to mobilize the same healing forces as all forms of psychotherapy, with some implications for promising directions of biofeedback research.
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Slightly modified from an invited address to the Biofeedback Society on March 15, 1981 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Frank, J.D. Biofeedback and the placebo effect. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 7, 449–460 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00998885
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