Good to see the recent spate of publicity for a study that hacks the legs out from under the antidepressant medication industry.
Currently the most viewed health article from the Washington Post website is about this study: “Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants: Study“, and if you search Google News for the study’s author, Irving Kirsch, [...]
Last year in September I wrote about a 47-year old professor, Randy Pausch, and his inspirational “Last Lecture” following his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.
If you want to know why death is such an important part of being human, then view the video on my previous post.
Back then he had wide publicity, from Good Morning America [...]
Medicine can be so arrogant sometimes.
How can doctors “save people’s lives” when people just die later of something else.
The latest cancer treatment announces it has reduced the mortality by half. Really. Please put the time-frame back in and say something like, “within the first 5 years after treatment.”
Human life is after all, as the saying [...]
I want a phobia. Anybody got one to give me. I want to be phobic about being bored. Or maybe phobic about doing the same thing too many times. Or maybe I already am.
I’m told that Stephen King doesn’t just write about his phobia-producing monsters. He also makes use of them. Each time he wants [...]
A man came to me for hypnotherapy because he was vomiting. Not just any vomiting either. He had had to be hospitalized and rehydrated.
His doctor’s couldn’t find a cause, so they did what doctor’s do when they can’t explain something. They suspect it’s in your head, give it an impressive label like psychogenic hyperemesis, and [...]
Last Friday night my wife and I left our 3 kids at my parents and went out to the movies.
Not such an unusual event perhaps, but these 2 movies were presented by an internationally renown hypnotherapist.
The movies were archival footage from the 1950’s that were an important part of the change in hypnosis become accepted [...]
Many years ago now I went to a meeting of a local self-help group for people with eating disorders.
They didn’t usually allow outsiders to come along but because I am a medical doctor they were willing to make an exception. It seems that medical doctors don’t often ask to go along to self-help groups. At [...]
Gary Craig, the creator of Emotional Freedom Technique left a note on the blog about my posts on EFT (Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3)
He suggests I look into the research on EFT that he links to and comments on at his www.emofree.com website, and I will do so in coming posts.
However he also [...]