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“Touch: simple physical act or healing art?” (Cont’d from prev)..)
As by now you will be aware, almost the entire ‘thrust’ of each blog contained in this compendium has focused around or upon an application of therapeutic methods of psychosocial support. In the main however, I have confined such descriptive … Continue reading
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“Touch: simple physical act or healing art?” (Cont’d from prev..)
My most recent blog in this series, has attempted to no more than introduce the subject matter entailed in its title. In postings to follow, we shall, albeit briefly, set the scene historically, from which, hopefully we can answer such … Continue reading
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“Just relax”…Easier said than done! (Cont’d from previous…).
Hopefully you are already beginning to see that in reality, the response in fact lies within the compass of the old saying referred to above and gives rise to a further question. Although undeniably, “many roads” do indeed “lead … Continue reading
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“Brawn, Brain, Brilliance”.
Now that (hopefully) we possess a more informed and enlightened perception of body and brain, i.e. of their capacity to contribute and combine and of their inextricable interelatedness, we can move on to one of the truly great questions to … Continue reading
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Our on-board Pharmacy (Continued).
Historically, the placebo has often been regarded by medical researchers as something of a nuisance, which at best can be “controlled for”. Drug firms spend millions of dollars and pounds sterling annually, in an attempt to eradicate it from their … Continue reading
Our on-board Pharmacy (Continued).
I want briefly to return in this further blog on “our on-board ‘pharmacy’”, to the terms “positive” and “negative”, (to which I made previous specific reference in blog, entitled “Accentuating the positive”, posted on Jan.26 2014). You may recall that … Continue reading
Our ‘on-board’ Pharmacy Store. (Cont’d from previous blog).
The historical rationale for all of this was based upon long-standing assumptions about human emotion, which so it was maintained, was centred in one locus of the brain. However – and increasingly – people began to ask interesting questions such … Continue reading
Change in a Changing World (ii). (Cont’d from previous blog).
The assertion made in the final sentence of the previous blog, may appear to run counter to the view that seemed to hold for a time, i.e. to the effect that the brain’s development is “genetically ‘hardwired’”. In one important … Continue reading
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Living and Learning (i). (continued from previous blog)
In the early part of this particular blog, we may well appear to be returning to ground previously covered in my earlier postings on coping with life-threatening illness; and to some extent that would be a valid conclusion to reach. … Continue reading
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Final thoughts on Human Stress.
In my last blog I made reference to the true account of a middle-aged patient, who was being treated for ovarian cancer, on the hospital oncology ward in which I was working at that time. I shall therefore assume that … Continue reading