Oh, but it does. You are confusing 'a placebo' with a sugar pill. A placebo is an act including something like a sugar pill. The patient is told they are getting a medicine for their illness and they get a pill. That is a placebo. You drop a sugar pill in their drink and don't say you did it and that it's a medicine...that is not a placebo.This seems like an oxymoron for the simple reason that a placebo doesn't cure anything, that's why it's a placebo. — TheMadFool
I'll just quote myself then....By the way, I fail to see how the notion of placebos is relevant to my theory. — TheMadFool
Perhaps I should have added that Art Therapy affects the emotions, I thought you were working on that assumption in the OP. If a ritual so simple as a placebo can affect change, the extremely complicated and generally longer term rituals of art therapy can certainly heal emotional problems and likely more. Now beyond that I think that one can learn through analogical processes and that much of what we are less conscious of functions in processes that are like metaphors. So, I am not saying that it is a direct parallel to a placebo, but rather saying, hell, if a placebo can be effective then art therapy, which is much more directly attuned to the individual and is vastly more nuanced and also gives the patient/client room to express feelings seems even more likely to be effective.To me it is obvious that anything that affects our emotions can have positive or negative (or both) kinds of effects on our health. — Coben
Oh, but it does. You are confusing 'a placebo' with a sugar pill. A placebo is an act including something like a sugar pill. The patient is told they are getting a medicine for their illness and they get a pill. That is a placebo. You drop a sugar pill in their drink and don't say you did it and that it's a medicine...that is not a placebo — Coben
Perhaps I should have added that Art Therapy affects the emotions, I thought you were working on that assumption in the OP. — Coben
if a placebo can be effective then art therapy, which is much more directly attuned to the individual and is vastly more nuanced and also gives the patient/client room to express feelings seems even more likely to be effective. — Coben
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