It’s been some years since I put together the website www.tappingforcash.com. It was a fun site, mostly, and a wry look at a therapeutic process that I consider to largely consist of total nonsense. However, the complaints continue to arrive in a slow but steady trickle. I care not, probably because I am exactly what..
Read moreThe Tapping Challenge
I'll call this project "The Tapping Challenge," and I will gladly assist where possible any tapper who wishes to take on any of the challenges outlined below. Tapping Challenge #1. A team of tappers meets and camps outside a regional psychiatric outpatients clinic for one month. Every person entering the clinic is shown where to..
Read moreThe Dark Side of Tapping
Picture the scene. It's a fictional scene but one that I have witnessed play out in a multitude of ways in different locations and with different players. The scene is set in a residential psychiatric unit. The day is Wednesday. Billy, a chronic schizophrenic patient, enters the office and is somewhat anxious and distressed. An..
Read moreBastard Tappers
Please note, this video is not a spoof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmhi4dQjRws&rel=0 I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has taken the time to email me, phone me, and message me on Facebook regarding my recent blog entries on "tapping". There are a number of themes to the messages, but the primary theme seems to..
Read moreYet another hypnotherapist
I cannot pretend anymore. I am often embarrassed to call myself a hypnotherapist. When socialising, for example at parties, business network meetings and so forth, I dread that question, "So, what do you do?" It was great when I worked in brain surgery and accident and emergency because the conversations used to go something like..
Read moreA tonic for the troops?
Ever wondered what happens when someone doses a bunch of army guys with LSD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWodyapGNxI&rel=0
Read moreSplit Brain Patients
From Wikipedia: “The corpus callosum is a structure of the mammalian brain in the longitudinal fissure that connects the left and right cerebral hemispheres. It facilitates communication between the two hemispheres. It is the largest white matter structure in the brain, consisting of 200-250 million contralateral axonal projections. It is a wide, flat bundle of..
Read moreOliver Sacks – Charles Bonnet Syndrome
"Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome, when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this underreported phenomenon." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ&rel=0 http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/oliver_sacks_what_hallucination_reveals_about_our_minds.html From Wikipedia: "Sufferers, who are mentally healthy people with often significant visual loss, have..
Read more“Inside Out lifts lid on North East’s hypnotherapists”
I'm on the BBC in a regional programme for the North East and Cumbria. From the BBC press release about the show: The show's investigation reveals that while there are several hypnotherapy organisations, none of them are regulated by law, and there are no standard qualifications. This worries hypnotherapist Andy Austin, who blows the whistle..
Read moreDelusional?
This video clip is interesting, as it is a natural demonstration of what seems to be delusional behaviour. The man speaking starts off relatively normal in his speech and affect but begins to derail as he talks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVdtwDSg9c&rel=0
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