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Impact of hypnotic safety on disorders of gut-brain interaction: A pilot study, 2020, Damis and Hamilton

Discussion in 'Other psychosomatic news and research' started by Andy, Oct 30, 2020.

  1. Andy

    Andy Committee Member

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    Paywall, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00029157.2020.1794434
    Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1080/00029157.2020.1794434
     
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  2. Hutan

    Hutan Moderator Staff Member

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    The long obfuscatory march through the alphabet of acronyms continues.
     
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    ladycatlover Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Isn't a mere 3 female subjects rather a small number even for a pilot study? And I assume they're only using women from the hysteria point of view, so why bother with even a single man. Grrr. Pass me the sick bucket.
     
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    A sick bucket! You must be needing a hypnotic intervention to increase your neuroception of safety! My theory is proved. Yay!
     
  5. rvallee

    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This is plain argle-bargle, gobbledygook and a thesaurusful more. Tune your chakras. Line up your humours. Maximize your Thetans. Synergize your vibrational antenna energy. Or whatever.

    The BPS model is basically bringing an alternative medicine approach into formal medicine, giving it the same weight as actual medicine but none of the accountability, oversight or burden of evidence. Well, congratulations, you have so fully embraced alternative medicine that you now think and speak like them, unironically. Bravo.

    Truly remarkable in this day and age to actually manage to take an actual field of science and regress it. No small feat. It should be impossible but here it is, unique in all the professions, where it truly is impossible to do this, because no other profession is so completely lacking in oversight and accountability. Not even close.
     
  6. Arnie Pye

    Arnie Pye Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    This is just vomit-inducing.

    And what on earth is "hypnotic safety"?

    Yuck, yuck, YUCK.

    Many years ago I paid to see a hypnotist to try and get help to stop smoking. In just a few minutes it turned into a terrifying experience. The hypnotist was male. [Edit: And I'm female.] He told me what was about to happen and that I should get on the bed. Then he turned the lights off (he hadn't mentioned that was going to happen) in a room with no windows. It was pitch dark and I could see absolutely nothing. This man was sitting very close to me as well. I hadn't taken much notice of the geography of the room and wasn't sure what furniture was between me and the door. I asked him to turn the lights on. No response. I said it louder. Still no response. In the end I screamed at him to turn the f*****g lights on or I was going to scream my head off calling for the police. He then turned the lights on and I left.

    I would never visit a hypnotist ever again!
     
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  7. James Morris-Lent

    James Morris-Lent Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    "American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis"

    Published by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

    The publication arm of a pseudoscience business interest group.

    You'd think it's the sort of thing to just ignore... until you remember the lightning process.
     
  8. Forbin

    Forbin Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    It's really quite simple - DGBI are the same as FGIDS. :)

    Technically, neither is an acronym since, by definition, acronyms can be pronounced (like "NASA"). DGBI and FGIDS are just confusing and redundant initialisms - especially since both are plural.
     
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  9. Art Vandelay

    Art Vandelay Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    As I also have an IBS diagnosis, my mother informed me that the local radio station was about to air a segment titled "hypnotising the gut". Hypnosis was being touted as a way to treat IBS, Crohn's and other GI illnesses.

    Fearing for my blood pressure, I decided not to listen to it. I did take a quick look at the literature on hypnosis and GI conditions. From what I could see, there were only uncontrolled, unblinded trials using subjective outcome measures. I wish I could say that I was surprised.

    I recall this quote from a gastroenterologist in Australia on treating the after-effects of covid:
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/...zBxQm0-oVUWy3hPjq5T5ri1ltUv0H3hCqctWEteCbE6rs

    I would say this is a mainstream view amongst Australian specialists. How can supposedly intelligent, well-educated people believe this drivel?
     
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  10. NelliePledge

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    Yes what on earth. Made up BS.
     

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