Comments on: More evidence that high order cognitive representations modulate perception

By: Lorimer

Lorimer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Cool ian –
We await your review……tis like waiting all Christmas day for the first ball of the Boxing Day Test (for those cricket ignorami – it is like waiting for the lolly shop to open)

By: ian stevens

ian stevens — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:37:13 +0000

Sure , will do. The principles are excellent and to hear the story of the author who herself negotiated a spinal cord injury and chronic pain/fear via meditation and other approaches is encouraging.However, as the ‘meaning’ stories in placebo illustrate ‘treatments’ have to be acceptable and culturally relevant for them to ‘work’. Meditation and mindful appraches make sense to me but may not be acceptable to others, particularly those with very strong belief in the way the world works …horses for course I suppose!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:20:54 +0000

Hi Ian – Not sure. I must confess i haven’t read it. You could do an informative review of it for us all and then make your call on whether the principles could be a good way of dealing with this…..

By: ian stevens

ian stevens — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:34:33 +0000

Do you think that the principles in ‘Living well with pain’ could be a good way of dealing with this –threapies that look at acceptance may be helpful then?
http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?id=4956&type=book&cn=81

By: Mo

Mo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:24:02 +0000

Thanks for the link and the kind words, Lorimer.