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I'm sure plenty of other people have seen and read this article, but I just stumbled across it today and found it pretty straight forward and readable.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/hypnosis.html

Hypnosis, along with any other form of alternative therapy, has a tendency to come off like snake oil. We can fix anything, doesn't matter what it is, whether it has a mental or biological cause, whether it is a minor annoyance, a major life problem or potentially a life threatening disease. This is where I start to have problems. As an adjunct therapy, I see hypnosis as a major tool for people with say, cancer. By itself, whereas hypnosis might be able to work a miracle, it's taking a major…

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I knew going in that learning any kind of therapeutic skills would likely push me into the morass of my own unresolved issues. This had indeed been the case and I'm not unhappy about it. It does leave me feeling a little tired and wondering if I shouldn't be looking to work through them faster rather than slower. I've been a stressball all month just trying to balance out the things I need to do externally and the things I need to do internally, along with all the stray wants that come along to… Continue