Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo


Book Description

A senior surgeon suggests that many commonly performed operations are not necessary and that any benefits they offer are a placebo. For many complaints and conditions the benefits from surgery are lower, and the risks higher, than you or your surgeon think. In this book you will see how commonly performed operations can be found to be useless or even harmful when properly evaluated. Of course no surgeon is recommending invasive surgery in bad faith, but Ian Harris argues that the evidence for the success for many common operations, including knee arthroscopies, back fusion or cardiac stenting, become current accepted practice without full examination of the evidence. The placebo effect may be real, but is it worth the recovery time, expense and discomfort?




The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice


Book Description

The Placebo Effect in Clinical Practice brings together what we know about the mechanisms behind the placebo response, as well as the procedures that promote these responses, in order to provide a focused and concise overview on how current knowledge can be applied in treatment settings.




The Ultimate Guide On Developing Conflict Resolution Techniques For Workplace Conflicts - How To Develop Workplace Positivity, Morale and Effective Communications


Book Description

If your goals include not only the enhancement of your company or organization as an entity, but a complete improvement of every department's performance? It is time for you to discover innovative ways to improve the workplace stress and atmosphere around you. These changes need to be conducive to achieving company and personal goals. In order to see the goals you have set actually come to bear fruit you will need to identify and cope with any type of conflict that exists in any situation!This book will help everyone in the company by providing you techniques that will enable everyone to clear up disagreements and conflicts. You will even be given tools that can convert disagreements into a creative force that benefits your company or organization.




The Persuaders Guide To Eliminating Resistance And Getting Compliance


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If you are a Persuader (who isn't), this book can teach you techniques of persuasion that will allow you to navigate the persuasion, and make your offers (or get them to do what you want) while minimizing -- even com,pletely eliminating resistance from their heads! The goal of this book is to introduce a special way of looking and treating the persuasion process, so that resistances are targetted and neutralized, while giving you unprecedented leverage in how to control people much more smoothly and consistently. You can collect all the trial closes and fancy shmancy persuasion techniques in the world -- but if you lack the innergame or how to see the whole picture? You wont successfully persuade and get the Compliance (acceptance of offer, target makes the desired action etc.)! If you can master resistance? You can master persuasion! And No persuader can succeed without mastering neutralization of resistance. For my readers interested in subjects on how to be a Spy, or on how to be a Con artist? Well this book does not cover those subjects directly, HOWEVER to learn how to spy for example requires the skillsets of getting compliance and simple resistance management -- which are indeed covered in this book. ============== Table of Contents ============== Table of Contents I - Nature of the Offer Targets TRUE need for the offer The Size of the Compliance People don't like to be sold to Pull back tactics Safety/Dangers/Integrity II External Factors Influencing Resistance or Acceptance Time Based on you or offers past performance Presentation of yourself and offer Future Projections Speed Decision making Values/Social Conditionings/Family/Corporate Values etc... Buyers’ Remorse Targets personal criteria and metaprograms Target's stock knowledge and experience about the offer at hand Positive or Negative effects the perception of the offer directly Relationship Dynamics/Frame Prospect in relation to the item Persuader’s relationship with the offer 3rd Party Opinions Social Proof positive or negative Advisers and Invisible decision makers III Compliance or Resistance Logical resistance They don't like you personally They decided on another offer Emotional or State based/BT Baby steps leading, to sneak past resistance




EQ Genius


Book Description

Almost everyone is familiar with IQ, or "Intelligence Quotient", a measurement of intelligence arrived at by tests of reasoning and comprehension. A little less well-known is EQ, which refers to emotional intelligence. We know what emotions are--happiness, sadness, fear, anger, boredom, surprise--but what, specifically, is the meaning of emotional intelligence? Simply put, emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, express and control emotions. At the most basic level, perception: being "in touch" with your emotions, as well as the emotions of others. When you feel bad, do you know specifically what you are feeling? Is it anger, fear, anxiety, sadness, or just boredom? How accurately you can evaluate your feelings is a measure of emotional intelligence. Another important component is how well you can correctly identify the emotions of others. Most of us tend to do this subconsciously, through the observation of facial expressions, body language, and vocal tone, as well as consciously, by listening to what others say (however, if those to whom you are listening are not well in touch with their own emotions, or have a reason to be duplicitous about how they are feeling, it's best to go with the non-verbal cues). ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= Definition of EQ EQ Basics: Perception EQ Basics: Understanding EQ Basics: Expression EQ Basics: Management Is IQ more important than EQ? Figuring Out IQ and EQ Scores IQ Doesn't Always Help EQ Is Increasingly Favored by Potential Employers—and Voters Conclusions - Did EQ Win the Battle? What Are Signs of High and Low EQ? The Five Main Components of EQ Other Signs of High EQ Signs of Low EQ Going Overboard- the Dark Side of EQ Charismatic Manipulators When EQ is a Liability, Rather than an Asset How to Raise Emotional Intelligence Brush Up on the Basics Bonus!







Advanced Parenting Techniques Of Rebellious Teens : The Ultimate Guide To Parenting Difficult Teens From Hell!


Book Description

Disciplining teenagers is a whole other beast than disciplining children. Teenagers are more than hormonal misfits, and it sometimes takes a delicate hand to figure what type of discipline works for each teenager. Unlike children, teenagers can comprehend the difference between right and wrong on an intellectual level. In fact, during the teenage years, teens figure out that the only reason there are starving people in the world is because of money. To them, that is a superficial reason to keep someone from eating. There is a certain level of idealism that comes into play when you are dealing with teens. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction What is your teenager acting out? Here are a few examples of acting out. 1. Emotional Problems Emotional Acting Out: 2. Relational/Social Problems Social Acting Out: 3. Functional Problems Functional Acting Out: Finding Solutions to Acting Out 1. Never Ask Why 2. One Issue at a Time 3. Offer Alternative Behaviors 4. Leave the Wishful Thinking in Your Dreams 5. Always Be a Role Model How to Handle Teenagers with Bad Attitudes What is Normal Teenager Behavior? Examining a Teenager's Brain Why do teenagers rebel? They are trying to find their own identity. Peer Pressure They want and need your attention Hormonal imbalance How to Change Yourself as a Parent How to Handle Your Teen's Outside Influences How outside influences can help? How to discipline your teenager for stealing? Are you ready to be a Golden Disciplinarian?




The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety


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Winner of American Botanical Council's 2005 James A. Duke Botanical Literature Award, the Essential Guide to Herbal Safety offers a balanced and objective perspective on the principles of herbal medicine safety as well as the complex challenges relating to self-prescribed or professionally prescribed herbal medications and supplements. With contributions from leading international practitioners and authorities, it contains comprehensive reviews, in monograph format, of the published safety data for 125 common herbs. You'll also find coverage of issues of quality, interactions, adverse reactions, toxicity, allergy, contact sensitivity, and idiosyncratic reactions. Provides the most current information on safety issues in herbal medicine. Presents authoritative and credible safety information from two experienced herbal practitioners. Combines theoretical chapters with 125 well-researched monographs, making it the most thorough and comprehensive text on the market for herbal safety in practice. Provides clear information using the most current evidence-based reviews, covering factors that influence herb safety, including the negative placebo effects (nocebo), various types of unpredictable effects, the basis for interactions between herbs and drugs, and quality issues. Uses an established grading system for assessing safety in pregnancy and lactation that is realistic and appropriate to herb use. Thoroughly critiques the dominant misinformation in the media and medical journals on herb safety issues. Contains 83 documented case studies on hepatoxicity and the effects in relation to kava. Kava safety is a hot topic. Includes two useful appendices detailing herbal references for pregnancy and lactation considerations.




Science of the Placebo


Book Description

Based on a meeting in November 2000, this book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to examine the biological, behavioral, social, cultural and ethical aspects related to the placebo effect. Perspectives on the necessity for including a placebo in randomized clinical trials will also be examined. This is the first attempt to examine the evidence-base of the placebo effect and will provide important information for clinicans.




Talking Cures and Placebo Effects


Book Description

Psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have had to defend themselves from a barrage of criticisms throughout their history. In this book David Jopling argues that the changes achieved through therapy are really just functions of placebos that rally the mind's native healing powers. It is a bold new work that delivers yet another blow to Freud and his followers.