Profiles
Professor Irving Kirsch
Visiting Professor
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health and Human Sciences)
Role
Professor Emeritus
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2013
'Sharing pain and relief: neural correlates of physicians during treatment of patients'
Mol Psychiatry
13,
(1-7)
1359-4184
, DOI
2013
'Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: an arterial spin labeling study'
Pain
154,
(1)
24-33
, DOI
2012
'Effectiveness of non-benzodiazepine hypnotics in treatment of adult insomnia: meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration'
BMJ
345,
, DOI
2012
'Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses'
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
109,
(39)
15959-15964
, DOI
2012
'A Systematic Review of Comparative Efficacy of Treatments and Controls for Depression'
PLOS ONE
7,
(7)
, DOI
2012
'Suggestion, Cognition, and Behavior'
CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
21,
(3)
151-156
, DOI
2012
'Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain'
Conscious Cogn
21,
(1)
100-116
, DOI
2012
'Catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met polymorphism predicts placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome'
PLoS One
7,
(10)
, DOI
2012
'The American Psychiatric Association's Guideline for Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary'
PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS
81,
(3)
186-188
, DOI
2011
'Role of placebo in irritable bowel syndrome'
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr
53 Suppl 2,
S42-S43
2011
'Active albuterol or placebo, sham acupuncture, or no intervention in asthma'
N Engl J Med
365,
(2)
119-126
, DOI
2011
'The Altered State Issue:Dead or Alive?'
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
59,
(3)
350-362
, DOI
2011
'Preface'
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
366,
(1572)
1781-1782
, DOI
2011
'Suggestibility and suggestive modulation of the Stroop effect'
Conscious Cogn
20,
(2)
335-336
, DOI
2011
'The Use of Placebos in Clinical Trials and Clinical Practice'
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE
56,
(4)
191-192
, DOI
2010
'Placebos without deception: a randomized controlled trial in irritable bowel syndrome'
PLoS One
5,
(12)
, DOI
2010
'Review: benefits of antidepressants over placebo limited except in very severe depression'
Evid Based Ment Health
13,
(2)
, DOI
2010
'The effects of observation and gender on psychogenic symptoms'
Health Psychol
29,
(2)
181-185
, DOI
2009
'Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity'
Conscious Cogn
18,
(4)
848-855
, DOI
2009
'Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation'
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
18,
(4)
837-847
, DOI
2009
'Antidepressants and the placebo response'
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc
18,
(4)
318-322
2009
'An fMRI study on the interaction and dissociation between expectation of pain relief and acupuncture treatment'
Neuroimage
47,
(3)
1066-1076
, DOI
2009
'Patient and practitioner influences on the placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome'
Psychosom Med
71,
(7)
789-797
, DOI
2009
'Expectancy and treatment interactions: a dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia'
Neuroimage
45,
(3)
940-949
, DOI
2008
'A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the neural mechanisms of hyperalgesic nocebo effect'
J Neurosci
28,
(49)
13354-13362
, DOI
2008
'"Don't know" responding to answerable and unanswerable questions during misleading and hypnotic interviews'
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-APPLIED
14,
(3)
255-265
, DOI
2008
'Challenging received wisdom: antidepressants and the placebo effect'
Mcgill J Med
11,
(2)
219-222
2008
'Components of placebo effect: randomised controlled trial in patients with irritable bowel syndrome'
BMJ
336,
(7651)
999-1003
, DOI
2008
'In Memoriam of John F. Chaves (1941–2008)'
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
50,
(4)
299-300
, DOI
2008
'Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: a meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration'
PLoS Med
5,
(2)
, DOI
2008
'Portuguese norms for the waterloo-stanford group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
56,
(3)
295-305
, DOI
2008
'The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructions'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
56,
(2)
143-155
, DOI
2007
'Hypnosis for nausea and vomiting in cancer chemotherapy: a systematic review of the research evidence'
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER CARE
16,
(5)
402-412
, DOI
2007
'Clinical trials and the response rate illusion'
Contemporary Clinical Trials
28,
(4)
348-351
2007
'Hypnosis for nausea and vomiting in cancer chemotherapy: a systematic review of the research evidence'
European Journal of Cancer Care
16,
(5)
402-412
2007
'Illness by suggestion: Expectancy, modeling, and gender in the production of psychosomatic symptoms'
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
33,
(1)
112-116
2007
'Pivot appliances - is there a distractive effect on the temporomandibular joint?'
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
34,
(1)
34-40
2007
'Placebo analgesia: Findings from brain Imaging studies and emerging hypotheses'
Reviews in the Neurosciences
18,
(3-4)
173-190
2007
'Remembrance of hypnosis past'
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
49,
(3)
171-178
2006
'Brain activity associated with expectancy-enhanced placebo analgesia as measured by functional magnetic resonance Imaging'
Journal of Neuroscience
26,
(2)
381-388
2006
'Effects of misleading questions and hypnotic memory suggestion on memory reports: A signal-detection analysis'
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
54,
(3)
340-359
2006
'Investigating placebo effects in irritable bowel syndrome: A novel research design'
Contemporary Clinical Trials
27,
(2)
123-134
2006
'Sham device versus inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments'
British Medical Journal
332,
(7538)
391-394
2006
'Suggestion reduces the Stroop effect'
Psychological Science
17,
(2)
91-95
2006
'The effects of prevalence and script information on plausibility, belief, and memory of autobiographical events'
Applied Cognitive Psychology
20,
(8)
1049-1064
2005
'Efficacy of antidepressants in adults'
British Medical Journal
331,
(7509)
155-157
2005
'Placebo psychotherapy: Synonym or oxymoron?'
Journal of Clinical Psychology
61,
(7)
791-803
2005
'The effects of hypnotic and nonhypnotic imaginative suggestion on pain'
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
29,
(2)
116-127
2004
'A gravity dual of chiral symmetry breaking'
Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics
52,
(6-7)
578-582
2004
'Conditioning, expectancy, and the placebo effect: Comment on Stewart-Williams and Podd (2004)'
Psychological Bulletin
130,
(2)
341-343
2004
'Generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence'
Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics
52,
(8)
727-826
2004
'Hypnosis and will'
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
27,
(5)
667-+
2004
'Impact of posterior occlusal support on the condylar position'
Journal of Oral Rehabilitation
31,
(8)
759-763
2004
'Plausibility and belief in autobiographical memory'
Applied Cognitive Psychology
18,
(7)
791-807
2004
'The effects of suggestion and belief on perception, memory, health, and cognition'
International Journal of Psychology
39,
(5-6)
477-478
2004
'The role of cognition in classical and operant conditioning'
Journal of Clinical Psychology
60,
(4)
369-392
2003
'Genetic Counseling and testing in families with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer'
Archives of Internal Medicine
163,
(5)
573-582
2003
'Intersecting branes, defect conformal theories and tensionless strings'
Fortschritte der Physik-Progress of Physics
51,
(7-8)
732-737
2003
'St John's wort, conventional medication, and placebo: an egregious double standard'
Complementary Therapies in Medicine
11,
(3)
193-195
2002
'Hypnotic analgesia and stress inoculation training: Individual and combined effects in analog treatment of experimental pain'
Cognitive Therapy and Research
26,
(3)
355-371
2002
'Immediate and persisting effects of misleading questions and hypnosis on memory reports'
Journal of Experimental Psychology-Applied
8,
(1)
26-32
2002
'National depressive and manic-depressive association consensus statement on the use of placebo in clinical trials of mood disorders'
Archives of General Psychiatry
59,
(3)
262-270
2002
'Virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of fear of flying: A controlled investigation'
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
70,
(5)
1112-1118
2001
'Apples, oranges, and placebos: heterogeneity in a meta-analysis of placebo effects'
Adv Mind Body Med
17,
(4)
307-309
2001
'Catastrophizing, depression and expectancies for pain and emotional distress'
Pain
91,
(1-2)
147-154
2001
'Changing beliefs about implausible autobiographical events: A little plausibility goes a long way'
Journal of Experimental Psychology-Applied
7,
(1)
51-59
2001
'Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability'
Current Directions in Psychological Science
10,
(2)
57-61
2001
'The altered states of hypnosis'
Social Research
68,
(3)
795-807
2001
'The response set theory of hypnosis: Expectancy and physiology'
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
44,
(1)
69-73
2000
'Montgomery GH, DuHamel KN, Redd WH: A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: How effective is hypnosis? Int J Clin Exp Hypn 2000;48 : 138-153'
FORSCHENDE KOMPLEMENTARMEDIZIN UND KLASSISCHE NATURHEILKUNDE
7,
(5)
248-248
2000
'Coping-related expectancies and dispositions as prospective predictors of coping responses and symptoms'
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
68,
(4)
757-788
, DOI
2000
'Are drug and placebo effects in depression additive?'
Biol Psychiatry
47,
(8)
733-735
2000
'Hypnosis as an empirically supported clinical intervention: The state of the evidence and a look to the future'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
48,
(2)
239-259
, DOI
2000
'Hypnotic suggestibility, nonhypnotic suggestibility, and their correlates'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
35,
(3-4)
37-37
2000
'Suggestion difficulty as a hypothesized moderator of the relation between absorption and suggestibility: a new spectral analysis'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
48,
(1)
32-43
1999
'An analysis of factors that contribute to the magnitude of placebo analgesia in an experimental paradigm'
PAIN
83,
(2)
147-156
, DOI
1999
'Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: Recalling the lessons of the past'
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
125,
(5)
507-523
, DOI
1999
'Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability: an empirical analysis'
J Pers Soc Psychol
77,
(3)
578-587
1999
'Automaticity in clinical psychology'
Am Psychol
54,
(7)
504-515
1999
'Brief modification of suggestibility and hypnotic analgesia: too good to be true?'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
47,
(2)
91-103
, DOI
1999
'Expectancy and suggestibility: are the effects of environmental enhancement due to detection?'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
47,
(1)
40-45
, DOI
1999
'Intentional and spontaneous imagery in hypnosis: the phenomenology of hypnotic responding'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
47,
(1)
65-85
, DOI
1998
'Alert hypnosis: Implications for theory and research'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
46,
(4)
403-403
1998
'Social psychological theories are not based on compliance: Setting the record straight'
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS
41,
(2)
155-158
, DOI
1998
'Placebo effect'
NEW SCIENTIST
159,
(2147)
52-52
1998
'Experiential scoring for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C scale'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
46,
(3)
269-279
, DOI
1998
'Comment on Montgomery and Kirsch, PAIN, 72 (1997) 107-113 - Reply to Staats et al'
PAIN
76,
(1-2)
269-270
1998
'Surreptitious observation of responses to hypnotically suggested hallucinations: a test of the compliance hypothesis'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
46,
(2)
191-203
, DOI
1998
'Dissociating the wheat from the chaff in theories of hypnosis: Reply to Kihlstrom (1998) and Woody and Sadler (1998)'
Psychol Bull
123,
(2)
198-202
1998
'Dissociation theories of hypnosis'
Psychol Bull
123,
(1)
100-115
1997
'Assessment context and suggestion difficulty: Hypothesized moderators of the relation between absorption and suggestibility'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
45,
(4)
473-473
1997
'Attentional resources in hypnotic responding'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
45,
(4)
475-475
1997
'Expectancy, ironic processes, and the Chevreul pendulum illusion'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
45,
(4)
474-474
1997
'Honest warnings mitigate the negative effects of hypnosis on memory'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
45,
(4)
470-470
1997
'The placebo effect in pain reduction'
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS
45,
(4)
467-467
1997
'Classical conditioning and the placebo effect'
Pain
72,
(1-2)
107-113
1997
'Hypnotic involuntariness and the automaticity of everyday life'
Am J Clin Hypn
40,
(1)
329-348
, DOI
1997
'Suggestibility or hypnosis: what do our scales really measure?'
Int J Clin Exp Hypn
45,
(3)
212-225
, DOI
1997
'Fanciful interpretations of a musical dream'
Am J Clin Hypn
39,
(4)
281-282
1997
'Hypnotic suggestion: A musical mathaphor'
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS
39,
(4)
271-277
1997
'Expectancy and conditioning in placebo analgesia - Related or independent mechanisms?'
PAIN FORUM
6,
(1)
59-61
1997
'Hypnotic enhancement of a cognitive behavioral treatment for public speaking anxiety'
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
28,
(1)
127-140
, DOI
1997
'Response expectancy theory and application: A decennial review'
APPLIED & PREVENTIVE PSYCHOLOGY
6,
(2)
69-79
, DOI
1996
'Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioral weight loss treatments—Another meta-reanalysis'
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
64,
(3)
517-519
, DOI
Letters
2012
'Kirsch et al.'s (2008) calculations are correct: reconsidering Fountoulakis & Möller's re-analysis of the Kirsch data'
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol
15,
(8)
1193-1198
, DOI