Archive for October, 2007
Cancer and Talking to Patients.
“effective communication is truly essential to good cancer care and deserves more research”
This is the message from a report in the US by their National Cancer Institute and the University of Rochester.
As one of the co-authors, Ronald M. Epstein, says
“You can have the best treatment in the world but if [...]Just for Fun
For a humorous take on things medical and psychotherapeutic check out:
http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/cash.html
It’s great. I especially like Therapeutic Efficacy of Cash in the Treatment of Anxiety in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depressive Disorders: Two Case Studies. It has pictures of brain scans comparing the brains before and after winning the lottery.
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Blog Action Day: The Environment
Like many others who have signed up to Blog Action Day I have agreed to highlight the environment on my blog today (October 15th). You can check out resources in the Blog Action Day Resource Section.
So what does this have to do with health and wellbeing?
There are a number of answers:
1. If we keep trashing [...]Acupuncture in Sydney Uni Medical Course
In today’s Sydney Morning Herald (News section p.9) there is a report that the Medical faculty at Sydney University will include Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in its curriculum.
[Background Information: Sydney Uni was the first University in Australia. Its medical faculty was the first medical school in Australia. Sydney Uni is one of the group of [...]Anorexia and Schooling.
Schooling can be bad for your health.
Especially if you are an adolescent woman. Christine Halse at the University of Western Sydney has been conducting research on the impact of schooling on young women, especially concerning anorexia. The paper is in the journal Gender and Education, 19(2), 219-235. The whole story is told in her book [...]Beginning to Act: Eight Stages of Experience #5
After we have identified our desire and surveyed the options available in the environment we move to action.
This means we intereact with something that we think will meet our desire - from a drink of water for our thirst to a life partner for our loneliness. We focus on the part of [...]A Possible Approach to Counseling
This idea comes from a visualisation that I did recently. I was following instructions to visualise particular archetypal figures. At the end of the visualisation these four “figures” emerged in quick succession: nurturer, guide, healer, joy. It then struck me that this was a possible description of a counselling process.
Nurture is more than problem [...]
