We all know advertisers attempt to influence us . . . it’s pretty much their bread and butter. How do they influence us? What’s one of the key mechanisms for influence? How to advertisers get us to actually care about their products? To feel as if they are much more important than they actually are?…
Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods according to a study presented at CHEST 2007,the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Smoking patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more likely to be nonsmokers…
As many regular readers here know, over the past twenty-five or so years, I’ve been regularly teaching a course in Literature and Film at National Chengchi University in which I guide the students into critical analysis of how filmmakers translate literary works into cinema. When a filmmaker decides to adapt a literary work into film,…
Researchers at Mount Sinai find cognitive behavioral therapy plus hypnosis reduces fatigue in radiotherapy breast cancer patients. Breast cancer patients receiving radiotherapy showed decreased fatigue as a result of cognitive behavioral therapy plus hypnosis (CBTH), according to a study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The study, titled, “Randomized Controlled Trial of a…
