Objectives: This scoping review evaluates two decades of methodological advances made
by “whole systems research”(WSR) pioneers in the fields of traditional, complementary, and …

Hope is a crucial aspect of human life and has been a topic of interest in many scholarly
disciplines. The medical literature, however, has—with a few exceptions—failed to take …

Background The relationship between patient expectations about a treatment and the
treatment outcomes, particularly for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) …

Objectives: Recent research has shown that placebos can be effective even if they are
openly prescribed to participants. Yet, it is unclear how such “open-label placebos”(OLPs) …

In this paper, we explore hope in the context of living with chronic pain. Individuals with
chronic pain from temporomandibular disorder (s) were interviewed four to five times over …

Background Positive patient expectations are often believed to be associated with greater
benefits from complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments. However, clinical …

Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD) represent a particular form of chronic pain that, while
not outwardly debilitating, profoundly impacts interactions as fundamental to human …

On one hand, it is commonly accepted that clinicians should not deceive their patients, yet
on the other there are many instances in which deception could be in a patient's best …

Emotions and Belonging in Forced Migration takes a sociology of emotions approach to gain
a better understanding of the present situation of forced migration. Furthermore, it helps to …

The placebo effect is now generally defined widely as an individual's response to the
psychosocial context of a clinical treatment, as distinct from the treatment's characteristic …