Placebo. Why does something that doesn"t work work?

The placebo effect over the years has attracted the attention of researchers and stimulated their interest in his study. Much they managed to find out, but much still remains under the curtain of the mystery. But no one has doubts about the existence of this effect. In his book, B. Dolinskaya collected the most interesting and sometimes the most inexplicable, from a scientific point of view, facts about placebo: the history of the word, placebo as the basis for evaluating the effectiveness of drugs, personal features that contribute to the emergence of the placebo effect, the role of positive expectations, suggestion and Self-pressure, the effect of the appearance of drugs for recovery and strength of placebo effect, placebo and nocebo effects, placebo in neuropsychology, ethical aspects of using (or not use) placebo.
This book is primarily addressed by doctors, psychologists, pharmacists, psychotherapists, athletes, and all those who would like to learn more about this mysterious phenomenon, and it is better to understand the mechanisms of its action