An extremely common issue I’m faced with in the treatment setting is depression, coupled with chronic pain. In my field, we reference these individuals as the co-morbid, meaning there are two or more illnesses occurring within an individual at the same time. This is important to note because often times, treating the issues simultaneously yields…
Most people are surprised to learn that the British Medical Association has approved hypnosis as a valid treatment tool for health in 1957. In fact, this was long overdue since hypnosis was already a part of healthcare in Europe. At the beginning of the 1930’s, many scientists started to do research on the value of…
Chronic pain—once considered just a symptom, but now a disease in its own right— has been estimated to affect between 30-50% of the world population. It has become an important public health problem costing society in excess $635 billion annually due to health care costs and lost productivity. Given the lack of media attention and…
Unbearable feelings Some feelings are too powerful to bear alone. If this is so, they remain not only unexpressed but unacknowledged. However they have to go somewhere or be dealt with in some way, so human beings employ defences like denial, repression, displacement being the most familiar, or they get split off and attributed…