The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis (with 1 co-authors)
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Just putting a medical name on someone's suffering can ease it all by itself, no pills or therapy needed—like in the fairy tale where guessing the name frees you. This means diagnosis itself can act as a treatment, so doctors should watch for its help and harm and researchers should study it directly. It is an argument describing a neglected phenomenon, drawing on folk tales, patient reports and studies of labels and placebos, and calling for proper investigation.
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