She interpreted her dream as an analogy of what she was doing with her life: the murder of Margarita Engel was really her own murder. “Engel” in German means “angel”; she was killing her angel. After arriving in Zurich, she contacted the author of the book, Yolanda Jacoby. Their talks, along with other experiences, led [...]
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Incontinence Mowrer detailed the use of a bedwetting alarm that sounds when children urinate while asleep. This simple biofeedback device can quickly teach children to wake up when their bladders are full and to contract the urinary sphincter and relax the detrusor muscle, preventing further urine release. Through classical conditioning, sensory feedback from a full [...]
Hypnotism evolved out of a sometimes skeptical reaction to the much earlier work of magnetists and Mesmerists. Paracelsus Paracelsus (1493-1541), a Swiss, was the first physician to use magnets in his work. Many people claimed to have been healed after he had passed magnets (lodestones) over their bodies. Valentine Greatrakes An Irishman by the name [...]
Abbé Faria (Abade Faria in Portuguese), or Abbé (Abbot) José Custódio de Faria, (30 May 1746 – 20 September 1819), was a colourful Goan Catholic monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Anton Mesmer. Unlike Mesmer, who claimed that hypnosis was mediated [...]
He studied medicine in Lausanne, Göttingen (where he met Karl Jaspers) and Breslau. He earned his doctorate from Göttingen in 1907. After receiving his medical license in 1908, he practiced at the polyclinic at the Medical University Clinic at Göttingen until 1911. Afterwards he worked at the Paul-Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt, at the insane asylum [...]
Various techniques are used by individuals to improve their state of relaxation. Some of the methods are performed alone; some require the help of another person (often a trained professional); some involve movement, some focus on stillness; while other methods involve different elements. Certain relaxation techniques known as “formal and passive relaxation exercises” are generally [...]
Young Montenegrin band “Autogeni Trening” (Autogenic Training) have a song titled “Ćehotina”. One of the most beutifull “sevdalinka” (type of folk song in Bosnia&Herzegovina) is “Dvije su se vode zavadile”(“Two rivers have quarell”). In that song river Cehotina talk to river Drina to wait for her until tomorow noon…” Really beautiful music and words. Best [...]
There are several ways of coping with stress. Some techniques of time management may help a person to control stress. In the face of high demands, effective stress management involves learning to set limits and to refuse some demands that others make. The following techniques have been recently dubbed “Destressitizers” by The Journal of the [...]
Professor Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany in 1978 where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He has received training in acupuncture, autogenic training, herbalism, homoeopathy, massage therapy and spinal manipulation. Ernst began his medical career at a homeopathic hospital in Munich In 1988, he became Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation [...]