Dr Hugh Willbourn
#12 What if the World needs Therapy?
As a psychotherapist I ask myself, “What would I do if the world came to see me now?” Firstly, I think I'd say, “Well done. It takes...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Sep 13, 2020
- 5 min
#11 The Omnibus Party
The Lockdown Sceptics website recently asked its readers to propose a name for a new political party which would act in the interests of...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Aug 3, 2020
- 4 min
#10 A realistic fear
A new Director was being shown around a lunatic asylum. A patient standing in the corner of the ward, clapped his hands twice, regularly,...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jul 21, 2020
- 13 min
#9 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jun 25, 2020
- 9 min
CC7 & LSS4 What role is hypnosis playing in these strange times?
I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Jun 3, 2020
- 8 min
CC5 & LSS3 Why did we make these mistakes?
As the UK moves into semi-un-lockdown and ongoing economic collapse it’s a good moment to ask, “Why did that happen?” In CC2 I explored...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- May 14, 2020
- 14 min
CC4 & LSS2 We can do better than 'Follow the Science'
[I was hoping to keep the two strands of this blog separate but the global response to Sars-CoV-2 is a perfect example of how we are...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
- Apr 7, 2020
- 1 min
LSS1 I had no idea what I was getting into ...
I had no idea... This is the story of an involuntary discovery that unfolded over thirty years. It is about something so small with...
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Dr Hugh Willbourn
#37 In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is weeping...
I am sitting on the terrace of a café by the river. Around me the well-to-do are chatting over their coffee and croissants. A young man...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
#36 A Decent Democracy
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a...
Dr Hugh Willbourn
#35 Books I haven't written yet: A new Series of Podcasts
I have started a new series of Podcasts over at the Power House called, “Books I haven’t written yet.” I have too many notes for too...
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