PUBLICATIONS
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Links to all papers, below:
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:
OPEN NOTES/PATIENT ACCESS TO CLINICAL RECORDS
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Blease, C., O’Neill, S., Torous, J., DesRoches, C. M., Hagglund, M. (forthcoming). Patient access to mental health notes: Motivating evidence-informed ethical guidelines. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
AI/FUTURE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS
EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
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Blease, C. (2012). Mental Health Illiteracy? The Unnaturalness of Perceiving Depression as a Disorder. Review of General Psychology 16(1): 59-69.
PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
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Kube, T., Blease, C., Ballou, S., Kaptchuk T. J. (2019). Hope in medicine: Applying multidisciplinary insights. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 62(4):591-616.
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Blease, C. (2010). Scientific Progress and the Prospects for Culture-Bound Syndromes. Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41: 333-339.
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Blease, C. (2012). Dismissing Depression: Folk Theorising and Stigmatization. In: R. Cooper and H. Carel, eds. Health, Illness and Disease: Philosophical Essays, Chapter 10: pp. 175-188. (London: Acumen).
PLACEBO STUDIES (includes: philosophy of science; ethics; empirical research)
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Annoni, M., Buergler, S., Ferrer-Stewart, S., Blease, C. 2020. Placebo studies and patient care: Where are the nurses? Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Mitsikostas, D.D., Blease, C., Carlino, E., Colloca, L., Geers, A.L., Howick, J., Evers, A.W., Flaten, M.A., Kelley, J.M., Kirsch, I. and Klinger, R. (2020) European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology. The Journal of Headache and Pain, 21(1), pp.1-7.
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Bernstein, M. H., Locher, C., Stewart-Ferrer, S., Buergler, S., DesRoches, C. M., Dossett, M. L., Miller, F. G., Grose, D. & Blease, C. (2020) Primary care providers’ use of and attitudes towards placebos: An exploratory focus group study with US physicians. British Journal of Health Psychology.
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Bernstein, M., Magill, M., Weiss, A.-P., Kaptchuk. T. J., Blease, C., Kirsch, I., Rich, J., Becker, S., Mach, S., Beaudoin, F. (2019). Are conditioned open placebos feasible as an adjunctive treatment to opioids? Results from a single-group dose-extender pilot study with acute pain patients. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
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Blease, C., Bishop, F., Kaptchuk, T. (2017) Informed consent and clinical trials: Where is the placebo effect? BMJ 356:j463 doi: 10.1136/bmj.j463
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Blease, C. & Kirsch, I. (2016). Introduction to Special Issue on Psychotherapy and the Placebo Effect (Eds.C. Blease & I. Kirsch), Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice 3(2):105-107.
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Blease, C., Colloca, L., Kaptchuk, T. (2016). Are open-label placebos ethical? Informed consent and ethical equivocations. Bioethics 30(6):407-414.
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Gaab, J., Blease, C., Locher, C., Gerger, H. Go open: A plea for transparency in psychotherapy. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 3(2):175-198 .
MEDICAL ETHICS
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Geraghty, K. J., & Blease, C. (2018). Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and the biopsychosocial model: a review of patient harm and distress in the medical encounter. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1-10.
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Blease, C. (2014). The Duty to be Well-Informed: The Case of Depression. Journal of Medical Ethics 40(4):225-229.
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Blease, C. (2011). Deception as Treatment: The Case of Depression. Journal of Medical Ethics 37(1): 13-16.
PSYCHOTHERAPY ETHICS
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Gaab, J., Annoni, M., Blease, C., Gerger, H. and Locher, C., 2020. The good treatment: a biopsychosocioethical proposition. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 8(2), pp.201-206.
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Grosse Holtforth, M., Gomez Penedo, J. M., Locher, C., Blease, C., Castonguay, L. G. Psychotherapy integration as an ethical practice. In: Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020).
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Blease, C., Kelley, J. M., & Trachsel, M. (2018). Informed Consent in Psychotherapy: Implications of Evidence-Based Practice. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy 48(2):69-78.
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Geraghty, K., Blease, C. (2016). Cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome: A narrative review on efficacy and informed consent. Journal of Health Psychology 23(1):127-138.
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Blease, C. Lilienfeld, S., Kelley, J. (2016) Evidence-based practice and psychological treatments: The imperatives of informed consent. Frontiers in Psychology 7(1170).
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Gaab, J., Blease, C., Locher, C., Gerger, H. Go open: A plea for transparency in psychotherapy. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice 3(2):175-198.
PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION
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Blease, C. (2019) Philosophy Ireland. In: A. Fulford, G. Lockrobin & R. Smith, eds., Philosophy and community: Theories, Practices, and Possibilities. London, UK: Bloomsbury.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES / BOOK REVIEWS / INVITED ESSAYS
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Blease, C. (2016). Interview with Professor Deborah Bowman, Editor of Medical Humanities 42:200-204.
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Blease, C. (2015). Missing the boat: CSR needs empirically literate philosophers. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion 3(1): 43.

