In 2008, Peter Whorwell of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom published an article in Journal of Psychosomatic Research entitled “Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome: The response of colonic and noncolonic symptoms”. In it, he outlined a lifetime’s research in the use of hypnosis in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, a disorder [...]
While I was trawling through PubMed the other day looking for articles about hypnosis (a curious past-time I know) I was struck by several articles that made reference to hypnosis being effective in the same conditions that placebo was, often inflammatory conditions. Now this is, in part, true, in my experience. Inflammatory conditions or conditions [...]
OK, apart from being the punchline to my wife’s favourite joke, the title is also a good lead in to a brief explanation of my absence. A couple of years ago now I suddenly started to get massive headaches, absolutely out of the blue, that felt like I had been hit on the back of [...]
