Oh I love it when our hypnotherapy training course graduates get out there and get famous Helen Grant completed our course some time ago and now resides down under. She recently went on the Hamish and Andy show (kind of a rougher and tougher Ant and Dec?) and cured Hamish of his spider phobia. You’ll [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Depression seems to run in families and from generation to generation. This is why some have concluded depression to be a genetic disorder a ‘disease’. However no gene has ever been located for depression and it seems more likely that depression (consisting of a set of attitudes) is contagious see this article. We know that [...]
The Reframing Techniques CD is nearly here… Somewhere in the heart of the offices of Uncommon Knowledge lies a box. In it are – still-warm from the nest – reframing techniques CD hatchlings about to be unleashed upon the therapy world. What’s more, subscribers to our free newsletter Clear Thinking who want to add to [...]
Published by mark.tyrrell November 19th, 2007 in psychology-research. 0 Comments Edit ‘Researchers discovered what might be called the “bimbo delusion” by studying men’s ability to complete general knowledge tests after exposure to different women. The academics found that men’s scores fell after they were shown pictures of blondes’. This article seems to show that we [...]
‘Decades of studies show that people who say their health is poor are likely to die sooner than those who rate their health excellent, even after controlling for how sick people actually are’. According to this article how healthy you perceiveyourself to be may be more important than how healthy you are deemed to be [...]
If you use hypnosis regularly, you will know that time distortion is a common feature. Time distortion is the sense that much more or less time has passed than really has, and typically in hypnosis, people think they have ‘been away’ for less time than they have. This is not really so surprising when you [...]
‘I just want to be happy!’ That’s what people say. Hundreds over the years have told me earnestly that all they wanted in life was happiness! Language is deceptive. Of course we all (English language speakers) have a shared idea of what a ‘spoon’ is but ‘happiness’ is an abstract term. To know what it [...]
So you’ve decided who to vote for at the next election. You’ve surveyed the manifesto, weighed up the issues, and made a balanced choice about who would do best by the country. Or have you? A recent study showed that Italian voters who rated themselves as most similar to Berlusconi were more likely to vote [...]
A woman at a recent Uncommon knowledge hypnosis workshop I was running told us how she had been told by a doctor that her depression would last for ‘years and years’ because ‘it usually does’. She told me that she left her Doctor feeling ‘totally hopeless’ about her future. Placebo and nocebo (it’s evil twin) [...]
A study in the US has just shown that “the incidence of serious psychological distress within the past year was 12 percent among non-parenting adults aged 18-49, compared with 8.9 percent for parents”. As a new parent of a 2 1/2 year old and a 2 month old, I’m glad there’s an upside. Only joking [...]
