22nd September, 2009 - Posted by admin - 1 CommentI must begin this blog post by acknowledging I am not a neuroscientist and that I do not write this post as someone professing to have all the answers to questions about the effects of hypnosis on the body. Instead I write as someone interested in what might be the physiological reaction of the body to hypnosis, based on relevant (linked) research in the field. I hope the post works as a starting point for consideration of self-hypnosis as a pot
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In a recent discussion of news that creationist-allied campaigners are suggesting neuroscience implies a non-materialist (e.g. soul-based) human existence, I mentioned this was old news as Nobel-prize winning physiologist John Eccles had argued much the same in the early 20th century. However, I recently got back to reading The Discovery of the Unconscious, Ellenberger's huge book and remarkably thorough history of psychodynamic psychiatry, and discovered this gem on p161 that mentions a simil
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