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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Placebos operate by tapping into the power of suggestion.
Chapter 3: Your body has its own chemical arsenal that can boost the placebo effects.
Chapter 4: Scientists are still striving to uncover the true secrets of why placebos aid some people but not others at all.
Chapter 5: That same suggestibility which lets us benefit from placebos also carries a dark side: the nocebo too.
Chapter 6: Hypnosis offers a potent example of human suggestibility.
Chapter 7: The phenomenon of false memories reveals just how vulnerable memory is to suggestion.
Chapter 8: Suggestibility shapes how we make our choices in everyday life.
Chapter 9: You can harness the power of expectation to better your life.
Description
Suggestible You (2016) shows the amazing ways our expectations affect our body’s responses to illness, pain and memory. It explores how the power of human suggestibility changes the processes that happen in our bodies and minds. And it describes how humans can – and already do – harness this ability to improve lives, whether in medicine or in everyday life.
Who Should Listen
- Everyone interested in how the human mind works
- People who don’t believe in miraculous cures but are curious about the science behind them
- Anyone who’s ever wondered about the body’s ability to heal itself