science Archives - Adam Eason

Why We Need Much More Science and Scientific Thinking in the Hypnotherapy Field

Adam Eason — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:20:20 +0000

Science and the scientific method in the field of hypnotherapy and hypnosis, this is what we’re talking about today. Throughout the years working in this field, there has been an ongoing and running debate that I am often pulled into whereby “Art vs Science” is hotly debated within the field of hypnotherapy. As has been […]

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Why “Science by Press Release” In The Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis Fields Frustrates Me

Adam Eason — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:26:44 +0000

At the end of last year, outside of the main body of my keynote presentation at the UK Hypnosis Convention, I spoke about a topic briefly that is something I have spoken about often to fellow professionals since: Science by press release. In my hypnosis weekly podcast, I have a ‘Hypnosis In The Media’ section […]

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Is NLP Scientific? The British Psychological Society Don’t Think So

Adam Eason — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:30:10 +0000

I read a very enjoyable article this week on the research digest blog of the British Psychological Society (BPS) entitled “10 of The Most Widely Believed Myths in Psychology” and it offers plenty of evidence base that refutes commonly held beliefs in the field of psychology. I was feeling smug at being aware of plenty […]

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Art Versus Science In Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy

Adam Eason — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:04:08 +0000

In the field of hypnosis, there is an ongoing and running debate whereby those seeking standardised, measurable, evidence based protocols for therapeutic interventions to be most beneficial are contested against thosebelieving that hypnosis is an art form delivered by an artist with their own expression and creativity and so on… I tend to sit on […]

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The Science Behind Being In Love

Adam Eason — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:18:58 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the value of using evidence in my own hypnotherapy work with my clients… I got a couple of straw man arguments back, a couple of personal attacks on me from those believing hypnotherapy is purely an art form, and I also got several of these kinds of […]

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BBC Attempts To Offer More 'Brain Science'

Adam Eason — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:23:31 +0000

I don’t know… Maybe it is because I just finished reading Ben Oldacre’s great book ‘Bad Science‘… Maybe that is why it was a poor week for the BBC to have coincided airing it’s latest leading science TV show ‘Horizon.’ Maybe I was framing the show with more than an air of scepticism (negative framing […]

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