Jean Piaget Jean Piaget is widely recognised as the most influential developmental psychologist of the twentieth century. His central thesis is that human development occurs through the interaction between maturational processes and the environment. In line with Piagetâs initial training … Continue reading →
Erich Fromm Unlike Freud or Erikson, Erich Fromm advocates no specific developmental stages. Personality can even continue to develop during adulthood, although external influences would obviously have to be proportionately stronger to affect the older, often less impressionable, individual. Like … Continue reading →
Why Smoke? It is important that you are fully aware of the reasons why people start to smoke and why they continue. Perhaps the crucial factor is that a reason may have been valid once, but may no longer be … Continue reading →
RELAX: LEARN TO LET GO! Refresh Yourself With Self-Hypnosis There are countless books on self-hypnosis, what it does, how it works, techniques for use, etc. There are even more books on relaxation, meditation, self-helpand similar subjects. Many hypnotherapists teach self-hypnosis as a part of their … Continue reading →
IMAGINATION/VISUALIZATION What Your Mind Can Conceive, You Can Achieve The subhead appearing above what your mind can conceive, you can achieve presents in eight words the most important message that any person will receive in a lifetime. The dramatic and … Continue reading →
Treating Anxiety and Panic Attacks with Hypnotherapy How can this help? Anxiety is natural, normal & necessary: but is yours just too much? What are the potential benefits? hypnosis is a pleasant, relaxing experience which can help you to develop … Continue reading →
Resistance in Therapy No matter how good a practitioner is or how well the prepared their client, there will be the possibility of resistance. Of course, if one does a good preparation this situation should not arise very often. However, … Continue reading →
Motivation and Goals in Therapy When working with clients one’s  strategy needs to include reference to the clientâs motivation for dealing with the issue that they are presenting, presuming that they are indeed motivated! Negotiate goals Some clients will have clearly … Continue reading →
Strategy in Therapy The first S in S to the Third Power Hypnotism is âStrategyâ. For every single client you must develop a strategy for working with them and this cannot be developed until you have information from the client. … Continue reading →
S to the Third Power Hypnotism Some years ago my friend and colleague Fiona Biddle and I came up with this model for the practice of hypnosis, S to the third power we called it which stands for Strategy Skills … Continue reading →
