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LSD: A Treatment for Mental Health Disorder?
Psychedelic drugs are making a psychiatric comeback. After a lull of half a century, researchers are once again investigating the...
Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20171 min read


Why People are Convinced Their Right Even When They are Wrong
In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...
Phil Harris
Jul 27, 20172 min read


Love and Lust: The Eyes Have It
Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...
Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read


Synchronicity: The Deep Impact of Communication
How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...
Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read


Are You an Ant or Grasshoper? Decision Making Styles Examined
Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...
Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read


Laughter & the Evolution of Power
In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...
Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20172 min read


The Dark Side of Empathy
In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...
Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read


Reality Check Yourself: A Free Wallchart
Biases are very important to the human brain. They spare us the time and effort from having to think too much about everything all the...
Phil Harris
May 16, 20171 min read


Free Emotional Intelligence Test
In training in Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy I often draw participants attention towards observing body language...
Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read


Impulse Control is Empathy for Your Future Self
Emerging research suggests that the same area of the brain that is responsible for empathy is linked to the individual's ability to...
Phil Harris
Dec 11, 20161 min read
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