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Cat registered as hypnotherapist

So what will this change? I don't live in the UK, so I don't know what the attitudes of the people there are towards hypnotherapy...
 
Pure_Argent said:
So what will this change? I don't live in the UK, so I don't know what the attitudes of the people there are towards hypnotherapy...
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I don't suppose that this will change anything but it, and the spluttering that will come from the believers as they try to explain it, will give skeptics a chance for a good horse laugh or two. ;)
 
Reminds me of when pets were getting credit cards a while back. Haven't heard of it happening lately, though.
 
Pure_Argent said:
So what will this change? I don't live in the UK, so I don't know what the attitudes of the people there are towards hypnotherapy...
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It's an indictment of the lax registration procedures of those so-called professional bodies, not of hypnotherapy as a treatment. I don't believe that it has ever been demonstrated to be an effective form of treatment, but that is another matter.

Leon
 
Starthinker said:
Reminds me of when pets were getting credit cards a while back. Haven't heard of it happening lately, though.
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When I bought my house several years ago the local power company asked if anyone else would be living with me and I said, "Just my dog 'Cash'." She asked if I wanted him to be on the account, I laughed and said yes.

4 years later and the bills still come addressed to him. When I need to talk about my account they always ask to speak with him. I finally explained what was going on and they threatened me saying that pets are not allowed to be on accounts. I explained that they were the ones who made the error and they still haven't taken him off the account.
 
Lothian said:
Ben Goldacre's cat has the exact same qualifications as 'Dr' Gillian McKeith, UK TV nutritionist. The unfortunate difference is that Ben's cat is dead.
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Meaning that the cat will make significantly fewer mistakes!
 
They didn't even check out the fake credentials. I could start charging for being a hypnotherapist and I don't even know how to hypnotise someone. I just have to say I'm certified with:
Society of Certified Advanced Mind Therapists


I'm gonna go practice swinging clocks around that are dangling from a thread. Hey, I got hypnotized in a bar once... I can sorta remember what the guy said.
 
leon_heller said:
The cat, George, was also registered as an NLP practitioner.
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It is good that they allow this to happen. It is so revealing.

Should anyone suggest a law that will ban NLP from cats, we should sue them for discrimination.
 
Oh this brings to mind something in a lawsuit way back in 1995,
the "therapist" Dr.H kept refering in her notes to as "co-therapist" named Doug,
it turned out that Doug was a dog.

Minnesota 1996-JAN-25; Carlson et. al. v Humenansky

P.S. Carlson won ;)

http://www.religioustolerance.org/rmt_cour.htm
 
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Lothian said:
Ben Goldacre's cat has the exact same qualifications as 'Dr' Gillian McKeith, UK TV nutritionist. The unfortunate difference is that Ben's cat is dead.
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Ah yes, the late Hettie got her membership of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants a year after becoming deceased:

http://www.badscience.net/2004/09/dr-gillian-mckeith-phd-continued/

Ben also pointed out that anyone in the UK can call themselves a nutritionist as it's not a protected word.
 
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