{"id":3267,"date":"2020-08-29T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:48:38","slug":"story-the-people-of-lensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/29\/3267\/","title":{"rendered":"The People of Lensland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/binoculars-431488_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Like the previous story, the metaphorical story \u201cThe People of Lensland\u201d can be used for patients suffering from body dysmorphia, in particular anorexia. It can however also be used in relation to hypochondria and the exaggeration (or downplaying) of illness in order to help the unconscious set a more realistic benchmark for the assessment of symptoms.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people of Lensland are born with binoculars in\nfront of their eyes. Most of them are born with binoculars which are the wrong\nway round, and everything they see looks very small. Whenever they meet someone,\nthey might think, \u201cAren\u2019t they a long way away!\u201d \u201cAren\u2019t they small!\u201d or \u201cAren\u2019t\nthey thin!\u201d However a few people are born with binoculars which are the right\nway round. Whenever they look down at themselves, they might think, \u201cAren\u2019t I\nlong and wide!\u201d The people of Lensland find it very hard to agree amongst\nthemselves. Yet once upon a time a woman living there made an incredible discovery&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the previous story, the metaphorical story \u201cThe People of Lensland\u201d can be used for patients suffering from body dysmorphia, in particular anorexia. It can however also be used in relation to hypochondria and the exaggeration (or downplaying) of illness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/29\/3267\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3656,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}