Employing open/hidden administration in psychotherapy research: A randomized-controlled trial of expressive writing.

Psychotherapy has been shown to be effective, but efforts to prove specific effects by placebo-controlled trials have been practically and conceptually hampered. We propose that adopting open/hidden designs from placebo research would offer a possible way to establish specificity in psychotherapy. T...

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Main Authors: Theresa Tondorf, Lisa-Katrin Kaufmann, Alexander Degel, Cosima Locher, Johanna Birkhäuer, Heike Gerger, Ulrike Ehlert, Jens Gaab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5703461?pdf=render