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"How much weight did this study give to the fact that hypnotherapists who aren't also clinical psychologists/psychiatrists are restricted with respect to what they can try to accomplish with their clients? I mean, if you're comparing…"

"Don: This reminds me of something that George Kappas said about the various models/explanations of hypnosis: "People ask me which description of how hypnosis works is "right." I tell them, I think they're all bulls***. I…"

"There comes a point where making up additional "states" starts to sound kind of silly. It's nonsensical, if I can be blunt, to talk about something "deeper" than coma. The next depth of brain activity after coma is…"

"If I may go on a tangent here, I was flummoxed that the PTO would allow somebody to trademark "Ultra Depth" for hypnotherapy services, so I went and looked it up. Interestingly, they did actually allow it, although there's a…"

"I think if somebody completely regenerated a seriously damaged bone in ten days, they'd be on the cover of the next American Journal of Orthopedics, that's what I think."

"Or maybe she's just shy. Or maybe your club is just full of people she has no interest in interacting with. It's a long, long stretch from "She doesn't act the way I think she should" to, "She has a serious…"

"I think about this question (in a more general sense) a lot. I was trained as a scientist and then as a lawyer and I have very firm beliefs on the subject of reliable evidence, falsifiability of hypotheses, and the reproduction of results. I get…"

"From a physiological standpoint, in a typical human once the ends of the long bones fuse, it's no longer possible to grow any taller. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyseal_plate ) This doesn't happen until some time after the end…"

"To expand on Don's quotation from the DSM, my wife has a degree in psychology, and both of us have always been interested in the field. The opinion I have formed - and for purposes of full disclosure my own undergraduate degrees are in physics…"

"Can they not orgasm during *sex* or not *at all?* If not at all (medical description "anorgasmia" or "anorgasmic,") they need to seek medical attention, as this could have a wide variety of physical causes and is uncommon enough…"

"The physical changes to the larynx that produce men's deeper voices are irreversible - it's a "ratcheting" effect. Only surgery can alter the process and for obvious reasons this is NOT a good idea. It's not like there…"

"Unless you have such an atypical neural structure that by this stage of your life you would certainly be aware of it, you not only can be hypnotized, you enter hypnosis on a regular basis. Everybody does. Our brains are wired for it. We HAVE to do…"

"You can't make somebody do something they don't want to do. If they hate their in-laws, and you just say, "Oh, now you'll be HAPPY when you seen them," both their conscious and subconscious minds will say, "I don't…"

"I'm not sure what you mean by "tests are not necessary for analytical people." In my experience analytical people are big on tests. :) It's kinda true that hypnosis won't work unless you believe it will, in that if you…"

"Not to be a spammer, and I don't work for HMI, but if you watch the weekly client presentations on HMI's web tv, you'll see that the actual hypnosis session is often quite short - 10 minutes or less of a 50 minute session. Now, this…"

"While repression is always a possibility there's just as much, in fact more, likelihood that she just, in fact, has a bad memory. This could be organic or functional but it isn't necessarily a defense mechanism even if it's…"