Don Meichenbaum wrote the checklist for spotting hype in psychotherapy. He named hypnosis as one of the worst offenders. He's just agreed to chair our Senior Advisory Board. When the field's leading hype-sceptic vouches for your hypnosis, that means something. zurl.co/jya1n #HypnoCBT #CBT #Psychotherapy #EvidenceBasedPractice #Hypnosis

"Yoga is the stilling of the turnings of the mind." -- Patanjali Our minds turn, turn, turn. Neuroscience calls it the Default Mode Network. Worry. Rumination. The story you keep telling yourself about who you are. Literally you are talking to yourself about yourself. It's quite easy to stop when you see that. It's not "thoughts" - it's thinking. And you're doing it. Stop. Rest in who you are when it all stops. #HypnoCBT #meditation #DefaultModeNetwork

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Wonderful to see Bradley Horowitz and the Wisdom Ventures team building around heart, mind, and soul. At a time when technology and AI could pull in many directions, this is the kind of capital alignment we need: wisdom, compassion, and human flourishing.

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain | Nature Reviews Neuroscience nature.com/articles/s41583-0…

Article: "The Body Does Not Keep the Score: Trauma, Predictive Coding, and the Restoration of Metastability" Coauthors: Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Glenn Fox frontiersin.org/journals/sys…

Hypnosis and Modern Neuroscience How hypnosis is such a powerful method for updating predictions - without revisiting the past. ukhypnosis.com/hypno-cbt-and…

This applies to anything requiring effort. Study, relationships, work How we talk to ourselves DOES matter! And... it's easy to change! BUT - how does self talk relate to autosuggestion and self-hypnosis? (Technically "self-talk" is called Self-Instruction Training and was developed by Dr Donald Meichenbaum, as a very early form of CBT) We cover Self-Instruction Training and Self-Hypnosis as part of our Hypno-CBT® Diploma training programme. see our website for more details: ukhypnosis.com #selfhypnosis #cbt

Jimmy Cliff - 1944-2025 - RIP Many Rivers to Cross One of the greatest songs ever - wonderful rendition here youtube.com/watch?v=kGeCeK85…

Great article. Will be required reading for all our tutors and supervisors 🙏🙏

"Survival Guide For Human Therapists In A Chatbot World" 24/7 chatbot access makes hybrid therapy clear wave of future. Human therapists who cant work with chatbots are most likely to be replaced by them. Here are Do's/Dont's of a successful adaptation: psychiatrictimes.com/view/su…

This! A wonderful essay for our time - for any time. Yes to life. "The meaning of life.... is to give life meaning" - Viktor Frankl themarginalian.org/2020/05/1…

"It is a truism of epic proportions that habits have a tendency to remain habitual. The psychoanalysts do not like this formulation, so they have christened it “resistance.” - Andrew Salter

“These findings suggest that CBT-I is an acceptable and efficacious intervention for managing insomnia in chronic disease populations, supporting its use as a first-line treatment across diverse patient groups.”

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens. The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, the most prestigious university in China. Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan. Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back: - When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in Gaza, he replies: "You killed more than 70,000 civilians!... The fact is not decided by you... It is not decided by your government. Your government has no legitimacy or the right to decide or defend what is fact" - And when told that the war will end when Hamas release hostages he replies: "No, this kind of propaganda have too many. No one believe it! Too many! Too much! No one believe it, except a few Israelis"

Once you understand Gabor Maté's method, you can see he's a charlatan & uses oldest trick in the book "you have unresolved pain from your childhood" Who's not going to respond that schtick? He's been doing this a long time See this classic from 2014 peele.net/lib/mate.html

In a strange contortion of logic, it’s not unusual to hear, “I thought it was just me, but now I know it was my ADHD”, with ADHD then simultaneously occupying a role as an identity and the function of ‘something that’s not me’

In 2025, I have admitted 12 cases of psychosis to the hospital with LLM involvement. 1. This actually isn't new or AI-specific. 2. And no AI does not causes psychosis. And most importantly, 95% of what you're reading on X about "schizophrenia" is medically inaccurate. 🧵

Myers-Briggs isn't a personality test—it's a sorting hat for adults!🧙‍♂️ Shown to be halfway between science and your zodiac sign. But why so loved? Because too hard to think of yourself in a 5 dimensional space! except for INTP :) of course #MyersBriggs #Psychology

“Why metaphor ≠ mechanism — and why the field must choose: art, science, or honest pluralism.” Brilliant, important theme.