If the mind is behind the placebo effect, can we cut out the middle man with a treatment of "deciding you are going to get better." If we remove the lie behind the placebo, and it still works--is this then a power we all possess, and have been accessing all along, but didn't understand or acknowledge?
Yes, this is what I was thinking. Could we teach people mental techniques to "delude" themselves into getting better? Kinda reminds me of doublethink from 1984.
