Mark R. Davis

Founder, Hypno-CBT® | FRSM | Imagination: the engine of human change | Evidence-based CBT & hypnosis training | Principal, UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy

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@AlfieJCarter Outreach!

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Don Meichenbaum wrote the checklist for spotting hype in psychotherapy. He named hypnosis as one of the worst offenders.

He's just agreed to chair our Senior Advisory Board.

When the field's leading hype-sceptic vouches for your hypnosis, that means something.

https://t.co/Ayn8vOP7cI

#HypnoCBT #CBT #Psychotherapy #EvidenceBasedPractice #Hypnosis

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@Hobo_Web I'm assuming you are unavailable for our projects?
Your digital agency has no idea who I am or our projects and aims. And doesn't prompt me to upload a context seed document.

We're just going to proceed on our own. And do our own manual page by page review.

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Untrue. Professor Donald Meichenbaum unpacked Vygotsky’s work and the function of self talk, notably in his 1973 paper “Teaching Schizophrenic patients to talk to themselves” - and was a founder of CBT (by adding self instruction to Behaviour Therapy).

We’ve been teaching this in our courses since 2008.

Everyone should know the history of their profession.

Stop reinventing the wheel!!

Also see Sarbin’s work on this (which impacted Hayes the development of ACT)

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@TommiPedruzzi Claude

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I think there's an equal amount of troubling baggage with the term "transference".

I've always preferred something like "stereotypical patterns" or Meichenbaum's approach.

Highly speculative, issues of informed consent, therapists getting self-validation etc.

"The purpose of therapy is to validate the therapist" - Michael Heap.

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Because they don't have bodies that interact with the environment!

Karl Friston is excellent at explaining this w some deep math

Existence requires some sort of boundary vs entropy
Life requires movement
Intelligence requires planned moment.
wonderful discussion here:
https://t.co/fQqavkmyuk

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There is no simple, direct, non-invasive way to measure overall “vagus nerve activity” or “vagal tone” across the body, because the vagus is a complex, multi-branched nerve with organ-specific activity that does not necessarily correlate uniformly.

Paul Grossman’s deep, evidence-based investigations highlight major limitations (from his 2007 landmark paper with E.W. Taylor and subsequent work, including 2023–2026 critiques.

I’ve been contributing to Paul’s project on ResearchGate and was into HRV as a global measure back 20 years ago.

It ain’t
Keep up with research

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@internetuserf12 @ZacharyGrinDPT Try breathing - more reliable

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@ZacharyGrinDPT @internetuserf12 No no he can see the vagal pathways! 🤦

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@awaisaftab Very Merleau-Ponty

“If a man's history can be affected by bodily events, this is because he lives his body... because the events of the body can become events of the world."

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@Hobo_Web @DavidGQuaid We live for in hope but seems not

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"Yoga is the stilling of the turnings of the mind."
-- Patanjali

Our minds turn, turn, turn.
Neuroscience calls it the Default Mode Network.
Worry. Rumination.
The story you keep telling yourself about who you are.

Literally you are talking to yourself about yourself.
It's quite easy to stop when you see that.
It's not "thoughts" - it's thinking.
And you're doing it.

Stop. Rest in who you are when it all stops.

#HypnoCBT #meditation #DefaultModeNetwork

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@DoctorPerin It’s a bizarre question. We don’t know what we don’t know.

It implies some hidden secrets to how human beings work and can be manipulated?

And that the scientific caught up later? Or?

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@zackpaid Claude

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@ameliahazelai Skills

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@VirgilMSW Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Andrew Salter

Timeless classic that paved the way for BT and CBT.

“Every therapist and most of their clients should read this book” - David Barlow

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@coreyganim It’s about picking up the phone. Not an email

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@LoganTGott System

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New meme for the ages