By: Anne McTiernan After almost fifteen years as a research physician, I grew tired of the relentless cycle of applying for grants, failing to obtain funding, and reapplying with variable success. Conducting clinical trials was rewarding, but the...
Read moreDr. Skip Sviokla, author of FROM HARVARD TO HELL AND BACK shares his inspiring story in this video
Expectations Influence Outcome: Thinking can make it so.
There have been many studies of people treated with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions (which involves decreased black-white thinking, awareness of their fear, etc.) to decrease their chronic pain. People who undergo this type of...
Read moreDan Mager has a new blog up on Psychology Today
Early in the 17th century, the French philosopher Rene Descartes famously wrote, “I think, therefore I am.” Thoughts occur so naturally and automatically that we are oriented to see them not only as a part of ourselves, but as ourselves. We...
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