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Television programs have both good side and bad side. TV can be educational and entertaining. It can create new world for children, provide the children to explore the world, give them chance to know other people’s culture and have exposures …

Improper Communication in Medical Practice: Sample Scenario and Solution Ineffective communication often results in bad customer feedback and other possible repercussions. Hence, a medical worker must always be in top form when communicating with the patient and the other related …

The use of hypnosis in psychotherapy has evolved in the ideas on psychotherapy change following historical events and changes in psychological theories. As a matter of fact, only in recent years hypnosis has grown as a medical specialty. This is …

Hypnosis has been used in the treatment of pain, depression, anxiety, stress, habit disorders, and many other psychological problems or for all patients or clients. Again, it is the opinion of the authors of this statement that the decision to …

Defense mechanism, cognitive belief systems, and the intensity of the trauma interfere with the processing of new experiences (van der kolk, 1997). This may influence people’s psychological processes and produce new behaviors that may contrast with old behaviors, leading to …

Nightmares ensued, and it aggravated her experience of “frozenness” in therapy. Eventually, after considering hypnosis for 9 months, she decided she would pursue it. Her therapist was supportive but did not advocate for hypnosis, electing to follow the patient’s lead. …

During the initial eye fixation (Crasilneck & Hall, 1985) transition into trance there was pronounced facial and some full-body twitching and energetic squinting, lasting only briefly, and this was the case for every hypnosis session. The first session taught controlled …

In that conventional ongoing therapy the ideomotor signaling continued in sessions, but it was not sought. In those conversations her fingers would often jump and signal. When that happened she and the therapist noted the energy but did not make …

One year after those two sessions, three years after the first hypnosis, she came in for one session to process a trigger event: a man accidentally had barged into her changing room in a clothing store. She did not freeze …

America is the land where everything is big. There are bigger opportunities, bigger houses, bigger cars, and bigger people. So says Morgan Spurlock in his documentary entitled, Super Size Me (2004). The documentary talks about how obesity is affected by …