Othercorrelativefactors were thecourseof disease, the anxietyforprognosis, sense of somaticdiscomfort, economicburden, and anxiety of operationand so on.
So, what I intuited from my work on placebo was that many therapies may elicit healing by using the sense of touch, or more generally the manipulation of somatic attention in order to address a disordered somatic-attention system.