by NPT | Dec 1, 2017 | Speculations
What if consciousness is not what drives the human mind? David A Oakley, UCL and Peter Halligan, Cardiff University Everyone knows what it feels like to have consciousness: it’s that self-evident sense of personal awareness, which gives us a feeling of ownership...
by NPT | Jan 2, 2017 | Magazine, Speculations
Members Download: TNPTvol5issue1pp30-35 In 16th-century Europe, a strange new psychiatric disorder emerged: people started to believe that they were made of glass. A famous early sufferer of the “glass delusion” was King Charles VI of France who, following...
by Richard Hill | Apr 2, 2016 | Magazine, Speculations
Members Download: TNPTVol4Issue4pp10-13 Ernest Rossi, in collaboration with Kathryn Rossi, have been challenging our thinking for nearly 50 years. Ernest Rossi’s collaboration in the 1970s with Milton Erickson was the early expression of his deep fascination and...
by NPT | Dec 1, 2015 | Magazine, Speculations
Mental Health In Refugees in Germany Malek Bajbouj Members’ Download: TNPTissue21pp6-9 Not a subscriber? Get your free copy here >>https://neuropsychotherapy.lpages.co/leadbox-1542057958.js In the last 12 months, Middle Europe and its...
by NPT | Jul 18, 2014 | Speculations
Members Download: Heart Health and Brain Health Not a subscriber? Get your copy here…https://neuropsychotherapy.lpages.co/leadbox-1504282431.js Who would think that the heart has an effect upon your cognitive functioning? Of course, the ancient Greeks and...
by NPT | Mar 31, 2014 | Speculations
Strait is the Gate…to Mathematics: On the Multiple Components of Mathematical Difficulties Elena Rusconi doi: 10.12744/tnpt(5)108-111 Complex mathematical formulae may trigger emotional and neural responses similar to the greatest works of art (Zeki et al.,...
by NPT | Jan 23, 2014 | Speculations
Couple Therapy Mona D. Fishbane doi: 10.12744/tnpt(4)126-127 Unhappy couples come to therapy beleaguered by cycles of emotional reactivity. These cycles run hot as partners blame each other and justify their own behavior. The habits that fuel these cycles...
by NPT | Sep 30, 2013 | Speculations
Gamma-band Synchronization & Cortical Columns Robert Moss Gamma-band synchronization has been an area of interest as a psychophysical hypothesis in perceptual binding since the late 1980’s (Fries, 2009) We recently suggested an alternative interpretation as...
by Bruce Ecker | Jun 30, 2013 | Speculations
Nonspecific Common Factors Theory Meets Memory Reconsolidation: A Game-Changing Encounter? Bruce Ecker Nonspecific common factors theory asserts, based on 75 years of randomized controlled trials of different types of psychotherapy, that specific processes and...
by NPT | Apr 4, 2013 | Speculations
Speculations on Emergence Working the Edge of Transformational Experience and Neuroplasticity Diana Fosha Published in The Neuropsychotherapist Issue #1 “The literature abounds with papers and discussions of resistance; yet how little we study the...
by Matthew Dahlitz | Nov 20, 2012 | Speculations
The Quantum Mind Is There Computational Ability Within the Neurone? Those who follow the study of consciousness will be well aware of the Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff “Orchestrated Objective Reduction” theory of consciousness that’s been in...
