The Importance of Hypnotherapy Conferences One of the more enjoyable things I do professionally is attend hypnotherapy conferences all over the world. Indeed, I have had the privilege of presenting at 5o or more over the past 29 years. The … Continue reading →
The Importance of Locus of Control Locus of control stems from a social learning theory approach to personality where general beliefs are thought to develop from expectations based on prior reinforcements and hence is an expectancy-value approach to motivation. Expectancy-value … Continue reading →
More Nonsense Headlines About Hypnosis Whilst deciding what to write about today, I have come across an article, from the same source as yesterday’s which claims that a woman lost three stone by having her mind tricked with hypnosis that … Continue reading →
More Shilling From The Media As regular readers will be aware, I have been critical about how some of the press are covering hypnotherapy stories. My main grip has been that celebrity name dropping has been used as news, and … Continue reading →
The Shadow Persona It has been a year since the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States. I think it is safe to say that there has not been such a divisive personality in political history. I … Continue reading →
A Need For Dialogue Having spoken at the James Braid Society this week, I got to thinking about the future of the profession. One of the things that I enjoy about the James Braid Society is that people from different … Continue reading →
Envy and Mental Health For most of us, we were raised with the notion that envy was not a good thing. Either by our parents or the church envy was considered to be a negative trait. One of the things … Continue reading →
The Pain of Moving On I had been working with a client recently and on the promise of anonymity she has agreed to allow me to use her case in today’s post. She was seeing me for therapy because of … Continue reading →
Mind Your Social Media Presence Most of you who may be reading this are reading this via a social media platform. Social media has truly changed the way people can communicate with each other and when done well this can … Continue reading →
Don’t Forget Your Personal History One cannot help but notice that there seems to be a real sense at the moment that people want to forget the past. Indeed, there seems to be a desire to not only try to … Continue reading →
