Irving Kirsch

Copyright © 2008 British Society of Experimental & Clinical Hypnosis. Published by (2009)

Irving Kirsch, Giuliana Mazzoni, Kathrine Roberts, Zoltan Dienes, Michael N. Hallquist, John Williams, ...

It has been hypothesized that highly hypnotizable people spontaneously slip into trance when given imaginative suggestions without prior induction of hypnosis. We tested this in two studies. In Study...

Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (2008)

Irving Kirsch, Brett J. Deacon, Alan Scoboria, Thomas J. Moore, Blair T. Johnson

BackgroundMeta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted...

Methodological Complementarity and the Mind-Body Problem (1994)

Hyland, Michael E., Kirsch, Irving

Methodological complementarity" is a pragmatic response to the current insolubility of the mind-body problem and should be considered alongside Rakover's mind-body skepticism.

Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis (1993)

Rhue, Judith W. (ed.), Lynn, Steven Jay (ed.), Kirsch, Irving (ed.), Hilgard, Ernest R. (pról.)

Manual de hipnoterapia, en el que son expuestos los fundamentos, modelos y técnicas de esta propuesta terapéutica, así como su aplicación en el tratamiento de diversos malestares. Entre otros...

Efficacy of antidepressants in adults

Moncrieff, Joanna, Kirsch, Irving

Most people with depression are initially treated with antidepressants. But how well do the data support their use, and should we reconsider our strategy?

Sham device v inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments

Kaptchuk, Ted J, Stason, William B, Davis, Roger B, Legedza, Anna R T, Schnyer, Rosa N, Kerr, Catherine E, ...

Objective To investigate whether a sham device (a validated sham acupuncture needle) has a greater placebo effect than an inert pill in patients with persistent arm pain.

Efficacy of antidepressants in adults

Moncrieff, Joanna, Kirsch, Irving

Most people with depression are initially treated with antidepressants. But how well do the data support their use, and should we reconsider our strategy?

Sham device v inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments

Kaptchuk, Ted J, Stason, William B, Davis, Roger B, Legedza, Anna R T, Schnyer, Rosa N, Kerr, Catherine E, ...

Objective To investigate whether a sham device (a validated sham acupuncture needle) has a greater placebo effect than an inert pill in patients with persistent arm pain.

Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration

Kirsch, Irving, Deacon, Brett J, Huedo-Medina, Tania B, Scoboria, Alan, Moore, Thomas J, Johnson, Blair T

Kirsch and colleagues show that, in antidepressant trials, there is a greater difference in efficacy between drug and placebo amongst more severely depressed patients. However, this difference seems...

Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Kaptchuk, Ted J, Kelley, John M, Conboy, Lisa A, Davis, Roger B, Kerr, Catherine E, Jacobson, Eric E, ...

Objective To investigate whether placebo effects can experimentally be separated into the response to three components—assessment and observation, a therapeutic ritual (placebo treatment), and a...

Challenging Received Wisdom: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

Kirsch, Irving

This article explores the reaction when an article challenging received wisdom is published and covered extensively by the media (1). The article in question was a meta-analysis of antidepressant...