The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

There are 2 types of artist:those who create for others in mindthose who create for themselveseither way, none are truly independent.

This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Only three things are infinite. The sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

I feel like social media is a great thing. I try not to go on it too much.

I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.