Hi The best workshop for me was Hypnotherapy and Psychologic Treatment for Functional Bowel Disorders. Dr Lesley A Houghton Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology talked to me before the workshop about the lack of Hypnotherapy studies on men with ibs. She gave me her e-mail address and said she would talk to four Doctors at her Clinic in the UK about my problem and see what they have to say. They talked about women having a hard time dealing with Doctors who think ibs is just in a women's head. Then I told them try being a man with a women's problem. They also said it hard to do studies on ibs because of the placebo rate being so high. That is why Caltrate works because they think it will work so it does. I talked to a woman that goes to your ibs group in Portland she said she would fill you in on the workshop. TimTim