Author: Will Williams

  • Scams & Suggestibility to Hypnosis

    Scams & Suggestibility to Hypnosis

    So, in 2009 Exeter University released findings from the first study into mass marketed email scams (and scams generally).

  • Does Facebook Change People?

    Does Facebook Change People?

    Sometimes I think Facebook is ok – it lets people keep in touch, and find each other through connections. Other times I think its a bad thing – especially when I notice the affect is has on people (also myself, from time to time).

  • Subconscious Self-Sabotage

    Subconscious Self-Sabotage

    The Hidden Handbrake – often, we’re our own worst enemies. We manage to somehow keep the things we really want just the right distance away so we never actually grab hold of them – whether a career position, goal, creative project or anything else. Why do people do this?

  • The Importance Of A Willingness To Perceive Reality

    The Importance Of A Willingness To Perceive Reality

    There is always one key factor that pops up again and again, throughout my experiences as a therapist, during conversations with people about psychology, and in my head when quietly observing a person’s “patterns”.

  • Inception – Could Hypnosis Do It?

    Inception – Could Hypnosis Do It?

    Its hard to think of another good film about the unconscious mind – the only other ones I can think of are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Hitchcock’s Spellbound, David Cronenberg’s Spider and Jacobs Ladder. Inception is far and away my favourite “mind movie” – so packed with intelligence…

  • Gil Boyne 1924 – 2010

    Gil Boyne 1924 – 2010

    Gil Boyne passed away in his London home on Wednesday 5th May. I was fortunate enough to train with this awesome legend in LA, he was the last of the great hypnotherapists. Having worked extensively with some Hollywood greats including Sylvestor Stallone (helping motivate him to write Rocky), Gil went on to have a huge…

  • For People Who Attended the Psychology Talk

    For People Who Attended the Psychology Talk

    I’m doing a talk this evening and making this post in preparation for anyone who wanted to ‘get some stuff’. Thank you for attending, if you did attend that is, and you’re not actually some confused wife-beater in Arizona who found the site after your cat crawled all over the keyboard. The quote I am…

  • The Goals of Therapy

    The Goals of Therapy

    The world of therapy, self-help etc really is a massive mish-mash. For the most part, I think alot of it is total horseshit, mostly because the ultimate goal is often to make someone money, not to get someone better. So circular training courses evolve where the trainees pay a lot of money, get their heads…

  • Do You Have a Con Story to Share?

    Do You Have a Con Story to Share?

    I often think that the true masters of psychology (and certainly psychological persuasion) aren’t the psychologists, therapists or academics. They are the con artists (and not far behind, the magicians, salesmen, marketing gurus and advertisers). Con routines are frightening in their vicious sense of shrewd exploitation, but equally fascinating in terms of the psychological dynamics.…

  • The Psychology of Scent

    The Psychology of Scent

    Scent is relatively neglected in terms of how much research and attention the other senses receive. More recently, research has been showing up all sorts of interesting things about smell, such as how our noses adapt to chemicals in the air within twenty minutes (i.e., we can’t smell them anymore). You have likely experienced the…