Someone asked me last night whether I had (in my former role working with psychiatric patients on ‘locked’ wards) come across ‘cold calculating killers’. I said that all though some of the patients had killed they had done so during the grip of a psychotic episode. This, of course, doesn’t help the victim or their […]
Archive for June, 2008
Well there’s nothing like Wimbledon tennis fortnight to delude me into believing I too could be a Wimbledon champ-if only I were leading a parallel life. Some of those players are just, well so, quick. Hypnosis has long been used by sports professionals as a way of creating perfect ‘practice’ as an addition to actual […]
Worry warts: Possibility vs. probability
Published by June 19th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 1 CommentIt’s a fact that if you live in a western city you have around one in one hundred thousand chance of being murdered by a stranger. If you smoke twenty cigarettes a day you have around one in two chance of being killed by cigarettes. But hardened smokers can still worry more about the possibility […]
Real hypnotherapy client sessions increases student confidence
Published by June 9th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 1 CommentWell this last weekends on the Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma course we focused on the mind/body connection and the incredible power of placebo-why it is so important in psychotherapy as well as medicine, then we looked at low self-esteem.
Yesterday we had sixty plus members of the public all with assorted problems they wanted addressing. […]
Hit and run: Bystander Apathy in action.
Published by June 9th, 2008 in psychology-research. 0 CommentsQuite rightly much has been made the CCT footage of a 78year man being run over in a busy road and how people around failed to offer assistance-apparently one potential helper on a scooter even paused to look curiously at the prone man, circled around him, then continued on his way! There has been much […]
Hypnosis and pain on Chris Evan’s drive time radio 2
Published by June 5th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training and hypnosis. 0 CommentsStuart Mconie who is looking after Chris Evan’s slot on radio 2’s drive time; was looking at hypnosis and pain relief yesterday (June 4th). I was asked to make some comments. Here are a few thoughts.
The very topic takes me back many years to a Sarah Jane, a twenty eight year old lady who was […]
I just saw this timely article on the connection between how we describe illness with words (what else?) and the possible consequences of those words on the way we experience the illness. It describes how the negative language that we use to describe cancer could lead a patient down a deadly road—even when in remission. […]
