Healing Relationships in Primary Care
Scott JG, Cohen D, Dicicco-Bloom B, et al. Understanding healing relationships in primary care. Ann Fam Med. 2008 Jul-Aug;6(4):315-22. PMID: 18626031
Healing relationships have not received a lot of attention in the published literature on primary care, considering they’ve been posited as an explanation of the large placebo effect observed in clinical trials. This theoretical model offers insights on a critical aspect of therapy.
From the discussion:
"The interviews showed that both patients and clinicians had a common understanding of the nature of healing. Healing meant being cured when possible, reducing suffering when cure was not possible, and finding meaning beyond the illness experience."
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