Do you remember a time when you were a child playing some made up game? A branch became a horse, a twig a gun; and in the blazing heat of the desert sands (well …local hills) you rode to capture the bad wizard? No? But maybe you have your own story?
I started to think […]
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Childrens creative play and psychological development
Published by May 12th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training and psychology-research. 0 CommentsFear and guilt share the same brain space
Published by May 10th, 2008 in psychology-research. 0 CommentsFearful people seem to feel the guiltiest. And it seems that fear and guilt are connected. People who experience the unpleasant affects of panic attacks and anxiety may be more prone to guilt and shame.
In March of 1943 a tragedy struck in the Bethnal Green area of London. 173 men, women and children were killed […]
It’s often said that some fears are ‘hard-wired’ and some we learn. For example most babies do not automatically fear public speaking (a fear which has to wait to be learnt later!) but they may have innate hard wired fears of, say, spiders and snakes and heights. This article: More evidence that fear of snakes […]
I was saddened to see on the UK news of a vulnerable man of twenty two with a mental age of eighteen months who has been murdered by two (it seems) strangers.
Idealists’ state that there ‘is good in everyone’ but psychologists think there is ‘potential good in the vast majority’ but that about 2% […]
The solution focused approach we teach on the uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma teaches hypnotherapy students to help people who are negatively ruminating about past events (or properly traumatized by them) to feel differently about the past so it stops intruding on the present and determining the future.
Uncommon therapists also teach people to look forward […]
positive expectation-a powerful antidepressant
Published by April 17th, 2008 in psychology-research. 0 CommentsNot long ago in the British press there was much talk of the research (some of which was reviewed by Irving Kirsh-an excellent presenter as I can attest) that shows antidepressants such as Prozac are little more effective that a simple (and much cheaper) sugar pill given to someone who is told they are receiving […]
Rigid thinking, laughter and depression
Published by March 31st, 2008 in psychology-research. 0 CommentsIt’s interesting to reflect that when people develop psychological problems it’s because, on some level, they have stopped being flexible around the difficulties they face in their lives. Humour is such a boon to good mental health because it keeps flexibility of mind well and truly intact and uses new perspectives, objectivity and detachment from […]
The Germans’ have a word for a concept we all understand. The word is “shadenfraud” which loosely translated means: joy in someone else’s suffering. And who was it that that said: ‘The worst affront to your friends in to become a success’?
People are more likely to experience shadenfraud if they were a, envious or […]
A few years back I saw a client being seen by a student on the Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma during a session I was supervising say that since they had become depressed they had suffered one physical illness after the other.
Depression depletes the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin, as well as making us feel good, moderates […]
I recall, as a late teenager, friends of my parents coming to stay. They had a young son of seven you might call a whiz kid. To say he was a smarty pants was an understatement. It was my job to show him around. He had memorized whole encyclopedias and I spent a great deal […]
