Faith and the Placebo Effect: An Argument for Self-Healing

Doctors have known for centuries about placebo healing, and healers have long recognized that simple faith can cause healing miracles. In this inspired study of the unacknowledged power of the placebo, Lolette Kuby, Ph.D. argues that the common denominator across all forms of treatment for illness is an innate self-healing capacity that medicine calls the placebo effect, and which religion knows as faith-healing.