The American Journal of Clinical HypnosisThis is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader, such as GoogleReader, or to display this data on your own website or blog. Subscribe to this data using MyMedWorm.Subscribe to this data using GoogleReader.Subscribe to this data using Bloglines.Subscribe to this data using MyYahoo.

This page shows you the latest items in this publication.

Pages: 1 2 3

144 records returned

A concurrent validity study between the Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) and the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale for Adults (SHCS:A) in an inpatient sample: a brief report.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) is a brief, standardized assessment of hypnotizability which takes 5-10 minutes to administer. The Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale for Adults (SHCS:A) is a different clinical measure of hypnotizability that takes about 20-25 minutes to administer. Although both scales purport to measure the same thing, they were based on different theories of hypnosis and constructed using different psychometric techniques. The present investigation is a concurrent validation study comparing scores on the two instruments in a sample of 24 inpatients. The correlation between the SHCS:A and HIP Induc...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Gritzalis N, Oster M, Frischholz EJ Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

ECEM (Eye Closure, Eye Movements): application to depersonalization disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Eye Closure, Eye Movements (ECEM) is a hypnotically-based approach to treatment that incorporates eye movements adapted from the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) protocol in conjunction with hypnosis for the treatment of depersonalization disorder. Depersonalization Disorder has been differentiated from post-traumatic stress disorders and has recently been conceptualized as a subtype of panic disorder (Baker et al., 2003; David, Phillips, Medford, & Sierra, 2004; Segui et. al., 2000). During ECEM, while remaining in a hypnotic state, clients self-generated six to seven trials of eye movements to...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Harriet EH Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Ambroise August Liébeault and psychic phenomena.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ambroise August Liébeault and psychic phenomena. Am J Clin Hypn. 2009 Oct;52(2):111-21 Authors: Alvarado CS Some nineteenth-century hypnosis researchers did not limit their interest to the study of the conventional psychological and behavioral aspects of hypnosis, but also studied and wrote about psychic phenomena such as mental suggestion and clairvoyance. One example, and the topic of this paper, was French physician Ambroise August Liébeault (1823-1904), who influenced the Nancy school of hypnosis. Liébeault wrote about mental suggestion, clairvoyance, mediumship, and even so-called poltergeis...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Alvarado CS Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Diagnosis and hypnotic treatment of an unusual case of hysterical amnesia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports on the use of hypnosis to facilitate the diagnostic process and the treatment of an unusual case of adult psychogenic amnesia. An Iraqi citizen living in the U.S. developed an atypical case of Dissociative Amnesia, Systematized type, post-automotive collision. The amnesia presented with features encompassing complete loss of the patient's native language. Dissociation theory as a conceptualization of hysterical reactions was employed as the basis in the formulation of this case. The differential diagnosis was facilitated by the Hypnotic Diagnostic Interview for Hysterical Disorders (HDIHD) Adult Form, ...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Iglesias A, Iglesias A Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis: seventy years of amazement, and still don't know what it is!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper has reviewed the author's experience with hypnosis and related therapies from 1934 through World War II, psychological warfare, multiple personality, the origins and feuding of hypnosis societies, the development of hypnotic ego state therapy and the unique contributions of his colleague and wife, Helen Watkins. PMID: 19862899 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Watkins JG Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

A new mind-body approach for a total healing of fibromyalgia: a case report.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study shows the results obtained from four female patients suffering from fibromyalgia after undergoing a mind-body treatment in which psychosocial genomic postulates as well as ideodynamic hand movements were the main tools employed in their healing. It is suggested that a mind-body oriented treatment could generate stable and permanent changes that enable patients to experience a total recovery from fibromyalgia. PMID: 19678555 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - June 30, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Cuadros J, Vargas M Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The effect of pregnancy on hypnotizability.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hypnosis during pregnancy and childbirth has been shown to reduce labor analgesia use and other medical interventions. We aimed to investigate whether there was a difference in hypnotizability in pregnant and nonpregnant women. Study participants had hypnotizability measured by the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS) in the third trimester of pregnancy and subsequently between 14 and 28 months postpartum and when not pregnant. The 37 participants who completed the study gave birth in the largest maternity unit in South Australia between January 2006 and March 2007. CIS scores were increased in women when pregnant (Mean 23...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - June 30, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Alexander B, Turnbull D, Cyna A Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

A spiritual-hypnosis assisted treatment of children with PTSD after the 2002 Bali terrorist attack.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a spiritual-hypnosis assisted therapy (SHAT) for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children. All children, age 6-12 years (N=226; 52.7% females), who experienced the terrorist bomb blasts in Bali in 2002, and subsequently were diagnosed with PTSD were studied, through a longitudinal, quasi-experimental (pre-post test), single-blind, randomized control design. Of them, 48 received group SHAT (treatment group), and 178 did not receive any therapy (control group). Statistically significant results showed that SHAT produced a 77.1% improvement rate...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - June 30, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lesmana CB, Suryani LK, Jensen GD, Tiliopoulos N Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The hypnotic diagnostic interview for hysterical disorders, pediatric form.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reports on the use of hypnosis to facilitate the diagnostic process in two cases of pediatric hysterical reactions. The Hypnotic Diagnostic Interview for Hysterical Disorders (HDIHD), an interview tool, specifically designed for these cases, is reported. The first case was an adolescent male with motor Conversion Disorder manifested as paralysis of his lower limbs. The second was a preadolescent girl with sensory Conversion Disorder manifested as reduction of visual field in her right eye. Freudian conceptualization of hysterical reactions was employed as the conceptual basis in the formulation of these cases....
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - June 30, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Iglesias A, Iglesias A Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

A comment on an alleged association between hypnosis and death: two remarkable cases.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dr. Ewin recently reported his research on two "remarkable" cases where hypnosis performed by a lay hypnotist was allegedly associated with the death of the subject. Commentary is provided about both cases. In the first case, it seems clear that the death was co-incident to the hypnosis. In the second case, Dr. Ewin speculates that hypnosis may have been related to the subject's death following her experience in a stage hypnosis show. Instead, we propose that the alerting suggestion used to terminate the hypnosis (that "the subjects would feel 10,000 volts of electricity through the seat of their chairs"), not hypnosis...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - June 30, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Frischholz EJ, Scheflin AW Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Naturalistic techniques of hypnosis. 1958.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623941 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Erickson MH Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Further clinical techniques of hypnosis: utilization techniques. 1959.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623942 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Erickson MH Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The necessary and sufficient conditions for hypnotic behavior.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623943 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Barber TX Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

A rationale for suggestion in dentistry.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623944 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Thompson KF Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Child hypnosis and personality.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623945 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: London P Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The obstetrician and hypnosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623946 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: August RV Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis as role enactment: the role demand variable.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623947 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Coe WC Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Removal of subconscious resistance to hypnosis using ideomotor questioning techniques.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19623948 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - March 31, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Cheek DB Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Expanding hypnotic pain management.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19216208 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lankton S Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Expanding hypnotic pain management to the affective dimension of pain.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Experimental (Price & Barber, 1987) and neuroimaging studies (Rainville, Carrier, Hofbauer, Bushnell, & Duncan, 1999), suggest that it is the affective dimension of pain as processed in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) that is most associated with suffering and autonomic arousal. Conversely, pain related emotions (Rainville, Bao, & Chretien, 2005) and expectations (Koyama, McHaffie, Laurenti, & Coghill, 2005) modulate pain perception and associated pain affect. This paper presents both the scientific background and the general clinical steps involved in a practical hypnotic approach that uses emotion...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Feldman JB Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnotherapy as an adjuvant for the management of inflammatory bowel disease: a case report.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) significantly affect the quality of life of sufferers. Improved quality of life and patient symptom management may be achieved through integrating psychological/behavioral interventions with pharmacologic treatments. Here is our experience with hypnotherapy as an adjuvant management for an 18-year-old female with Crohn's Disease (CD) in remission (patient I) and a 24-year-old female with CD in active phase (patient II). The patients participated in 12 weekly one-hour sessions of hypnotherapy. Gut-directed, ego-strengthening, and post-hypnotic suggestions and immune-directed...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Emami MH, Gholamrezaei A, Daneshgar H Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis for complex trauma survivors: four case studies.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This report described a phased-oriented treatment of complex trauma in four Chinese women. Two women were survivors of childhood sexual abuse, one was a rape victim, and the other was a battered spouse. A phased-oriented treatment that tailored to the needs of the clients was used. The treatment framework consisted of three phases: stabilization, trauma processing, and integration. Hypnotic techniques had been used in these phases as means for grounding and stabilization, for accessing the traumatic memories, and for consolidating the gains. Data from self-reports, observation and objective measures indicates a significant...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Poon MW Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnotic analgesia for combat-related spinal cord injury pain: a case study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A U.S. Army soldier stationed in Iraq developed myriad pain problems after sustaining a high-level spinal cord injury (SCI) from a gunshot wound. These problems were negatively impacting his ability to participate fully in his physical rehabilitation and care. Ten sessions of self-hypnosis training were administered to the patient over a 5-week period to help him address these problems. Both the patient and his occupational therapist reported a substantial reduction in pain over the course of treatment, which allowed the patient to actively engage in his therapies. Six months post treatment, the patient reported contin...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Stoelb BL, Jensen MP, Tackett MJ Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The psychosocial genomics of therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paean composed on the occasion of the inaugural Bernauer W. Newton Trust presentation celebrates the personal and professional culture of 50 years of mentorship, teaching, and research by the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). This review of current neuroscience concepts of therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy is made possible by the cooperation and dedication of all members of our society. Emerging pathways of psychosocial genomic research, which will lead to new directions for our society, are highlighted for their impact on our professional practice in the present and future. PMID: 19216213 [P...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2009 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Rossi EL Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The American Journal of Clinical hypnosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998377 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lankton S Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis as sole anesthesia for major surgeries: historical & contemporary perspectives.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hypnosis as sole anesthesia for major surgeries: historical & contemporary perspectives. Am J Clin Hypn. 2008 Oct;51(2):101-21 Authors: Hammond DC Hypnosis is a well validated treatment for acute and chronic pain (Montgomery, DuHamel, & Redd, 2000). It has been found capable of reducing inflammation, altering blood flow, and producing beneficial effects when hypnotic suggestions are provided during and prior to surgery (Frederick, 2001) and other painful medical procedures. This paper quotes extensively from historical examples of the use of hypnosis (mesmerism) as the sole anesthesia for major surgerie...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Hammond DC Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The neurophysiology of pain perception and hypnotic analgesia: implications for clinical practice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is written for the clinician who uses hypnotic interventions for pain management. It begins with an overview of what is known about the neurophysiological basis of pain and hypnotic analgesia, and then discusses how clinicians can use this knowledge for (1) organizing the types of suggestions that can be used when providing hypnotic treatment, and (2) maximizing the efficacy of hypnotic interventions in clients presenting with pain problems. PMID: 18998379 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jensen MP Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on the paper "Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998380 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Herbert S Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on the paper "Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998381 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Matthews WJ Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998382 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Kessler R Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

To assess or not assess hypnotic suggestibility? That is the question.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998383 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lynn SJ, Boycheva E, Barnes S Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on the paper "Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998384 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Barretta N, Barretta P Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on "Hypnosis, hypnotizability, and treatment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998385 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Geary BB Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998386 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Goodman A Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Commentary on the paper "Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment".Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18998387 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Handel DL Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Novel activity-dependent approaches to therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy: the general waking trance.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper presents a highly edited version of a videotape made in 1980 by Marion Moore, M.D., showing Milton H. Erickson and Moore demonstrating novel, activity-dependent approaches to hand-levitation and therapeutic hypnosis on their subject, Ernest Rossi. Erickson's naturalistic and utilization approach is described in his very direct and surprising induction in a trance challenged patient. These novel, and surprising inductions are examples of how Erickson was prescient in developing activity-dependent approaches to therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy several generations before modern neuroscience documented the...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Rossi E, Erickson-Klein R, Rossi K Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hemihypnosis, hypnosis, and the importance of knowing right from trend.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The hypnosis community may be buying into a neuroscience fad concerning brain laterality. Accustomed to deflating folkloric claims about hypnosis, researchers and practitioners of hypnosis have come to appreciate the danger of lingering myths and the importance of dispelling legends. Tales are ubiquitous, however, and claims relating to the left or right hemispheres require both context and substantive data. Here we sketch the gist of brain laterality findings and their relevance to the hypnosis community. PMID: 18998389 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - October 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Raz A, Schwartzman D, Guindi D Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

50th anniversary of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18714887 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Lankton S Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

50 years of hypnosis in medicine and clinical health psychology: a synthesis of cultural crosscurrents.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 2008, the 50th anniversary of ASCH, hypnosis is used increasingly for healthcare applications in hospitals, clinics, and psychotherapy practice. A substantial body of research demonstrates the efficacy of hypnosis as part of the integrative treatment of many conditions that traditional medicine has found difficult to treat (e.g., Pinnell & Covino, 2000; Elkins, Jensen, & Patterson, 2007). The practice of hypnosis in healthcare has been altered and centrally influenced by the rapid growth of technological medicine in the 1950's, the AIDS epidemic and development of psychoneuroimmunology, revolutionary develop...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Weisberg MB Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

What we can do with hypnosis: a brief note.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article summarizes the search for efficacious hypnotic treatments. Eighteen major meta analyses were reviewed and the results evaluated using the criteria of Chambless & Hollon, (1998). The analysis identified 32 disorders for which hypnosis can be considered a possible treatment, 5 for which it seems effective, and 2 for which it appears specific. If clinicians use hypnosis in the situations where it seems to be efficacious, and systematically expand the list of conditions where it will be helpful, the results will be even more impressive for the 100th anniversary of this Journal. PMID: 18714889 [PubMed - in ...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Wark DM Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The early days: remembering William S. Kroger, M.D.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 18714890 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yapko MD Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The (dramatic) process of psychotherapy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Psychotherapy can be conceived as a symbolic drama in which patients can experientially realize their capacity to change. Methods derived from hypnosis can empower therapy without the use of formal trance. A case conducted by Milton Erickson is presented and deconstructed in order to illuminate Erickson's therapeutic patterns. A model is offered for adding drama to therapy, and the model is placed into a larger model of choice points in psychotherapy. PMID: 18714891 [PubMed - in process] (Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis)
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Zeig JK Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis, hypnotizability and treatment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is broad agreement that a phenomenon we call "hypnosis" exists. However, there is no generally accepted definition of hypnosis. A brief historical overview of the use of hypnosis in healing practices demonstrates how it evolved willy-nilly, and like Topsy, "just growed" into its current status in medicine, psychiatry, psychology and dentistry. The mechanisms underlying hypnosis and how hypnosis differs from other cognitive states are almost totally unknown. With the exceptions of suggestions for pain control, current concepts of high, medium, low or non-hypnotizability do not reliably predict clinical outcomes fo...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Sutcher H Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Death and hypnosis: two remarkable cases.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reported The First Recorded Death in Hypnosis in its issue of October 27, 1894. Ninety-nine years later, on September 23, 1993 a healthy 24-year old mother of two was found dead at home, fully clothed and draped across the foot of one of her children's bed, 5 hours after volunteering as a subject for a stage hypnosis show. The suggestion given to terminate the trance had been that when the hypnotist said, "Goodnight", several subjects would feel 10,000 volts of electricity through the seat of their chairs. Unknown to the hypnotist, she had been phobic about electricity ev...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - July 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Ewin DM Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnotic alteration of body image in the eating disordered.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A driving force in an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa has been a distorted body image. The psychobiological dynamics of eating disorders have demonstrated significant hypnotic phenomena such as forms of dissociation, hallucination, time distortion and catalepsy, and therefore, pose hypnosis as a good fit for particular parts of treatment. Presented here are four hypnotic approaches designed to inspire the establishment of a reality based body image in the eating disordered individual. Conditional prerequisites for application of these interventions are described and case examples illustrate each approach. A discu...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - April 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Walsh BJ Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnotic treatment synergizes the psychological treatment of fibromyalgia: a pilot study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this pilot study, we compare the efficacy for fibromyalgia of multimodal cognitive behavioral treatments, with and without hypnosis, with that of a purely pharmacological approach, with a multiple baseline N = 1 design. We randomly assigned six hospital patients to the three experimental conditions. The results suggest that psychological treatment produces greater symptom benefits than the conventional medical treatment only, especially when hypnosis is added. We conclude that hypnosis may be a useful tool to help people with fibromyalgia manage their symptomatology. PMID: 18524298 [PubMed - in process] (Source:...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - April 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Martínez-Valero C, Castel A, Capafons A, Sala J, Espejo B, Cardeña E Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Subconscious guided therapy with hypnosis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two adolescents were hospitalized with incapacitating symptoms: one with headache, back pain, and an inability to walk, while the other had headache, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, and emesis. Medical evaluation did not reveal an etiology for the symptoms of either patient. Consultation with child psychiatry services yielded recommendations that both patients might benefit from counseling. Both demonstrated an immediate improvement of their symptoms with instruction in self-hypnosis-induced relaxation techniques that included favorite place imagery and progressive relaxation. The patients were told that while in hypnosi...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - April 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Anbar RD Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Relationship of headache-associated stressors and hypnosis therapy outcome in children: a retrospective chart review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined potential psychosocial stressors of 30 children with headaches (mean age, 15 years), and the role of insight generation in the outcome of hypnosis therapy. The mean duration of headache occurrence was 3 years. All of the patients were instructed in how to use hypnosis-induced relaxation and headache-related imagery to improve their symptoms. Thirty-seven percent reported their headaches were associated with fixed stressors, defined as caused by events over which patients had no control, while 63% reported variable stressors, defined as modifiable by the patients' actions. Four patients were lost to foll...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - April 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Anbar RD, Zoughbi GG Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

The future orientation of constructive memory: an evolutionary perspective on therapeutic hypnosis and brief psychotherapy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We explore a new distinction between the future, prospective memory system being investigated in current neuroscience and the past, retrospective memory system, which was the original theoretical foundation of therapeutic hypnosis, classical psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy. We then generalize a current evolutionary theory of sleep and dreaming, which focuses on the future, prospective memory system, to conceptualize a new evolutionary perspective on therapeutic hypnosis and brief psychotherapy. The implication of current neuroscience research is that activity-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity are the psy...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - April 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Rossi E, Erickson-Klein R, Rossi K Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals

Hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy during breast cancer radiotherapy: a case report.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This case report describes an effort to control two primary side-effects of breast cancer radiotherapy (fatigue and skin discomfort) that used a combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy with hypnosis (CBTH). Two patients, matched on demographic and medical variables (marital status, employment status, number of children, cancer diagnosis, surgical history, radiation dose), were compared: one who received a CBTH intervention and one who received standard care. Results were consistent with the view that CBTH was effective in managing fatigue and skin discomfort, and increasing relaxation. PMID: 18246853 [PubMed - ...
Source: The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis - January 1, 2008 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Schnur JB, Montgomery GH Tags: Am J Clin Hypn Source Type: journals