In a recent TED talk, an expert in the management of chronic pain in children explains neuropathic pain, a form of chronic pain in which the nervous system itself becomes faulty and creates the experience of intense pain, both the sensation of pain in the brain and the side-effects of injury in the affected (but not actually injured) part of the body.
Posts Tagged ‘TED’
Pain
Posted in depression, For patients, Review, tagged case study, distress, emotion, pain, psychotherapy, recovery, TED, therapy on June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Authenticity
Posted in For patients, Review, tagged emotion, feelings, paradox, psychotherapy, relationships, shame, TED, therapy on December 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In talk from June’s TED in Houston, sociology researcher and storyteller Brené Brown explains how she discovered that vulnerability is the key to feeling connection with other people, to having a sense of love and belonging.
Dots
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Research, Review, Techniques, tagged CBT, mental health, mental illness, neuroscience, optical illusions, psychotherapy, TED, therapy on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A neuroscientist at University College London has explained how CBT works using coloured dots.
That is, his explanation uses coloured dots. CBT doesn’t use coloured dots (though if some wacky ‘third-wave’ therapy based on coloured dots turned up next week heralded as a new form of CBT it would not surprise me one bit).
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