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I've been in "caring professions" all my working life, the last twenty years as a hypnotherapist. You've identified one the most important issues for anyone in any caring job, which is how do you strike the balance between empathy and self-protection, ie not get traumatised by other people...

Most of the research shows that long term success rates for any quit smoking therapy are pretty poor. According to the Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis (published by University of Oxford), the best success rate they found was in Elkins' study where it was 60% at 12 weeks, dropping to 40% at 26 weeks. Tha...

Hi all! all this nonsense talk about hypnosis being induced without consent, or forcing someone to do things that are against their moral beliefs. hypnosis is voluntary, and you need them to want to be hypnotized for it to ever work, and you cannot suggest anything against their moral code. If you ...

The Challenger explosion was the perfect outcome in order for us to learn to take more care over spaceship design. But maybe not the perfect outcome for the people on board! For them, the perfect outcome would have been having the fault discovered before they took off. However, Julius, if you want ...

At roughly 300 words per page in most ppb books, that's about 75 pages per minute, ie more than one page per second. No of course it isn't possible! Unless the book was so simple and repetitive that it would hardly be worth reading anyway. Woody Allen made a good joke about these courses. "I di...

OK Vivi I want to pick up on a few things you've said here. it feels mandatory, as if he is very nice and charges me less (last session he said "this one's on me", which really surprised me) and in return I have to go to this thing. This raises a controversial issue re therapy, ie should t...

Jamesbond, even if people who think outside the box are a small percentage, they still add up to good many worldwide. And it is this small minority that instigates all new developments for good or ill. Most of the rest take little thought for their own beleifs, assumptions, or ethics- they just go a...

You might also benefit from studying about animal behaviour and the practicalities of training animals, this would not only improve yuor care of the cat, but also teach you useful stuff about other people and about yourself. For example, about "variable ratio reinforcement schedules" which...

Thank you both for that advice, its very useful. Right now Hightail seems to be working again, but if I get any further problems I will switch to Dropbox.

I have created an MP3 relaxation track which visitors to my websites can download. It was hosted on Hightail (formerly known as Yousendit), but their site seems to have had multiple problems for the past few months according to the forums I've been reading. What other FREE sites do forums members us...

Therapy is very much a "hands on" thing- has to be done with real people. Therefore, distance learning is very limited. THe course seems to consist of a book and some videos. You can find loads of NLP videos, forums, etc on Youtube, for free, and you can buy ten books at least for the pric...

A lot of inexperienced therapists do pay clients compliments, thinking to enhance the client's self-esteem. Problem is, that client will often assume that therapist is "only saying that because they're a therapist." Thus the compliment has no effect. Same way a barmaid smiles and acts frie...

There's a medical name for just about everything. But I'd prefer to label this guy's behaviour as a habit. We all have habits- some more public, others more private. As habits go, this seems very harmless. The usefulness of habits is that they "automate" much of our behaviour so we don't h...

I don't know which country you live in but in the UK the Citizens Advice Bureau often provides free debt counselling. This is not therapeutic counselling, its practical advice about how to get your income and outgoings to coincide, how to plan repayments, deal with court orders, bailliffs, etc. Our ...

Some questions for you. 1) Does this guy have regular supervision meetings, and if so has he discussed your case with his supervisor or peer supervisor? 2) Have you agreed a plan of therapy with him including goals of therapy, how these are to be achieved, and how and how often is progress to be ass...