The placebo effect is as old as the healing professions themselves. The idea that you will get better because you believe you will get better is a very powerful one, and one that doubtless the pharmaceutical companies would like to have suppressed if they had the chance.
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Good News for the Placebo
September 8th, 2009A Closer Look at Hypnosis
September 7th, 2009If you are reading this essay to find out ‘how it’s done,’ then let me save you some time. Now would be a good time to move on to another article because the answer to that question lies elsewhere.
Radical Therapy
June 24th, 2009All the talking therapies have one thing in common – an awful lot of talk. Freud is credited with the invention of Psychotherapy, but Carl Rogers perfected the idea. Hypnotherapy has always been regarded as the almost perfect short cut to a cure, but it seems that there are even quicker, more effective ways to turn your client’s life around. Some are so radical, they border on common-sense.
In Praise of Carl Rogers
June 23rd, 2009Carl Rogers said that the patient dictates the direction and pace of the session, and I would imagine that this great man, a true giant among psychologists, came to this conclusion after long experience.
Why Blair is the new Stalin
June 22nd, 2009The fact that governments have always used suggestion to exercise power is nothing new. At the start of the 21st Century however, that form of suggestion is getting less subtle, not more. Here we look at how two very different dictators manage it.
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