Profiles
Professor Irving Kirsch
Visiting Professor
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Professor Emeritus
Publications
Publications
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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) 'The American Psychiatric Association's Guideline for Major Depressive Disorder: A Commentary' PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS 81, (3) 186-188 , DOI
(2012) 'Catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met polymorphism predicts placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome' PLoS One 7, (10) , 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) 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. Preface' Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 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 suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation' CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION 18, (4) 837-847 , DOI
(2009) 'Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity' Conscious Cogn 18, (4) 848-855 , DOI
(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) 'Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis' Conscious Cogn 18, (2) 494-499 , 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) '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
(2006) 'Sham device versus inert pill: randomised controlled trial of two placebo treatments' British Medical Journal 332, (7538) 391-394
(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
(2005) 'Efficacy of antidepressants in adults' British Medical Journal 331, (7509) 155-157
(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) '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
(2001) 'Apples, oranges, and placebos: heterogeneity in a meta-analysis of placebo effects' Adv Mind Body Med 17, (4) 307-309
(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]' Forsch Komplementarmed Klass Naturheilkd 7, (5)
(2000) 'Coping-related expectancies and dispositions as prospective predictors of coping responses and symptoms' JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 68, (4) 757-788 , DOI
(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 , DOI
(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 , DOI
(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 , DOI
(1998) 'Facilitated communication as an ideomotor response' PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 9, (1) 71-74 , DOI
(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) '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' J Consult Clin Psychol 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