Psychology Today presents the Loose Screw Awards . . . principles or ideas in psychology that have been demonstrated to be wrong or muddled but which are still quite popularly used among therapists and practitioners. Not sure I agree with the list . . . there are a couple things I would have put on…
Daily Archives: April 19, 2005
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Charles Barkley ain’t dumb . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Another post at Blog Sisters
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Perception Becomes Reality. . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Terry at Blog Sisters makes some excellent points about girls and math . . . even though girls in advanced math classes at university were making higher grades than their counterpart boys in basic classes, they though the boys were better at math than them. Duh. Does not bode well for everything we’ve been supposedly…
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The New Virtual
by Brian David Phillips •
Jeffrey Veen discusses Bruce Sterling and the new virtual. Sterling’s talk was on how we can now fabricate things in real space via virtual technologies, actually replicating virtual objects via technology by inputing a model or design into the computer and then dropping the design into a special fabricating printer that prints it out as…
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My Home Town . . .
. . . Abilene, KS
by Brian David Phillips •
Just for fun, I took a peek at my home town on Google Maps . . . Abilene, Kansas, United States . . . it’s a small town and looks even smaller via sattelite imagery. Sometimes, I miss the people, my family, friends . . . don’t miss the Winter.
Hypnosis, Trance, Meditation, and The Rest
Unmotivated Hypnosis Clients . . .
. . . there is no magick wand
by Brian David Phillips •
After trying every trick she can think of, Renée Stephens has found her answer to the question “How much we can help someone without motivation?.” Her answer . . . After trying my darndest, and pulling out all sorts of fancy techniques, I have concluded that there is a base level of motivation that the…
Hypnosis in the News
Hypnosis Works for Pain Control
by Brian David Phillips •
Seth-Deborah Roth discusses a study that demonstrates Hypnosis Works for Pain Control. She included the attached table in her piece that clearly shows that the reduction in rating by patients when using hypnosis is far superior to the other compared methods of accupuncture, morphine, and pacebo. Actually, it is quite startling a difference to those…
