06th June 2006
Many years ago, when I was in school in India, I had a classmate who was very confident in taking initiatives. He could do things that we, as children could not. Some of us thought that he was outstanding. He would, for example, be smart in replying to t...
06th June 2006
A young man, who had suffered with trauma following a road traffic accident came for treatment. One of the unusual experiences that his wife described related to his behaviour in sleep. She had noticed that if she was to touch him, even inadvertently when...
06th June 2006
In some of the old texts of therapeutic hypnosis, there are contraindications mentioned to hypnosis. In layman's language it means that hypnosis was not recommended for conditions like depression, psychosis or schizophrenia. The reason given was that hypn...
06th June 2006
More or less everywhere in the world, children are taught to refrain from crying. I remember incidents from my own early childhood. If I fell down and then cried , my family members would distract me from crying. They would say 'see you have killed an ant...
06th June 2006
In my psychiatric practice, I have recommended meditation to many clients who have been taking psychiatric drugs. In almost all of them, after feeling relaxed for a short while, they start to feel depressed or anxious or paranoid. Their symptoms become wo...
26th May 2006
Many a young men (and old men and women too) have found themselves not moving ahead in life. They find themselves in a rut. They want to change their lives but they cannot. They have been leading a stereotyped lifestyle for a long time. Sometimes they com...
26th May 2006
John was a highly intelligent young boy. With higher than average intelligence, he was also emotionally sensitive. He was obviously a handful for his parents because they did not know how to deal with him. His father was strict with him. His mother was to...
26th May 2006
In the western world people are comparatively comfortable with 'hypnosis'. In the east the word 'meditation' does not raise any eyebrows. Hypnosis has been used mainly for 'directed healing'. Meditation has been used mainly for 'general' well-being.
In...
26th May 2006
A lot has been written about the Unconscious in psychology literature. During my own training, I found it hard to understand the intricacies of the Unconscious. But over the years, I have learnt something more than what the books taught me. This article i...
09th February 2006
Michelle walked into my office smiling. I had seen her for the first time. I was impressed to see this lady who had come to seek help for her difficulties. As soon as she sat down on the chair, she started to cry. She had been in a difficult marriage. Her...
09th February 2006
Going to gym is a fad. The whole world is catching up with it. By 2020, at least a fourth of the population in the western world will be obese. So what can we do?
Join a gym- as some friends will say. Yoga is good for health too. So is Tai-chi. That ...
09th February 2006
Human mind is given the credit for being a thinking mind. But our behaviour is not determined by our thinking. Our behaviour is determined by our emotional and instinctual drives. That makes us as good as animals. And that is what we all are. We are all '...
23rd November 2005
Health is defined as a condition of physical, mental and social well- being and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition. According to some forms of traditional medicine practices, an ill condition develops because the individual has violated a ...
23rd November 2005
John was a police officer. He was on duty one evening when a car stopped outside the police station. An elderly man came out of the car and came over to him to request him for help. He wanted John to go over to the car and convince his son, who was a pass...
20th November 2005
Grief is an integral part of almost everyone's life. Whenever you go through the loss of a near and dear one, you go through a grief process. Grief is experienced physically and psychologically. Crying is an integral part of grief process. In cultures whe...
