What Pharmaceutical Research Taught Me About the Power of the Therapeutic Relationship | Episode 28
Before Sandy was a therapist, she spent 12 years in pharmaceutical research.
And it was there — not in graduate school, not in a textbook — that she first witnessed the most powerful healing mechanism she has ever encountered.
Not the drug.
The relationship.
What This Episode Holds
How Sandy ended up in pharmaceutical research and what she witnessed there that she has never been able to unlearn
What a "high placebo rate" actually means — and why what the industry called a confounding variable was actually the most important finding in the room
What it felt like to watch people get measurably…
The skinny
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