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A vision to enhance self-regulation in children: The promise of pediatric hypnosis American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Lisa Lombard
Pediatric hypnosis practices are a valuable tool for enhancing emotional self-regulation and promoting resilience. Hypnotically informed materials, toys, and language are simple ways to encourage r...
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Hypnosis in treating depression: Applying multidimensional perspectives American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Michael D. Yapko
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Tools of intention. Strategies that inspire change American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Arturo Valdez
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Symphonic resonance: optimizing hypnotic suggestions with music to harmonize depression and rumination American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Anita Jung
Depression is a complex, multi-dimensional disorder that is recognized as a leading cause of human suffering and disability. A wide variety of treatments, both physical and psychological, have been...
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Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: Past, present, future American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 David S. Alter
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Introduction to clinical hypnosis: The basics and beyond American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Robert Staffin
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Self-image Building protocol for treating depression in hypnosis American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Stephen Lankton
This article explains the method of treating depression with an intervention called Self-Image Building. Several antecedents or correlates of depression are briefly discussed as they form a gestalt...
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Respect for acting American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 David S. Alter
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)
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Hypnotherapy influence on maternal psychological, breastfeeding, mRNA-OXTR expression, and OXTR protein American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Lalu Hamzi Fikri, Suryani As’ad, Mochammad Hatta, Saidah Syamsuddin, Hanung Prasetya, Martira Maddeppungeng, Aminuddin Aminuddin, Andi Alfian Zainuddin, Idyatul Hasanah
Hypnotherapy has emerged as a potential alternative to improve exclusive breastfeeding rates, particularly in countries like Indonesia where they are below optimal levels. This study aims to evalua...
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Future focused strategies in treating depression American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Moshe S. Torem
Depression commonly features the experience of hopelessness and a loss of the ability to imagine and believe in one’s positive future. This article considers this important feature of depression an...
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Spiritual healing in palliative care with clinical hypnosis: neuroscience and therapy American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Maria Paola Brugnoli
Palliative care is a holistically oriented philosophy and a model of medical care for patients with life limiting illness. By nature, its care is team-based and quality of life is its objective for...
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Creating critical palliative hypnotic adjustments: temporality, hope, and meaning American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Sylvain Néron, Daniel L. Handel
When cure is not possible, suffering often takes form as pain and distressing symptoms, death anxiety, existential distress, and meaninglessness. This paper describes important elements connecting ...
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Hypnotically enhancing behavioral activation in the treatment of depression American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Barbara S. McCann, Arin Collin
Depressive disorders are common conditions associated with high personal and economic burdens. The best treatment outcomes occur in patients receiving both psychotherapy and antidepressant medicati...
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Integrating mindful self-hypnosis with resistance training to reduce stress: a case study American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chan Myae Lin Latt, Cameron T. Alldredge, Gary R. Elkins
This case study explores the effects of a combined intervention involving Mindful Self-Hypnosis (MSH) and Resistance Training (RT) on perceived stress levels and well-being in a university student....
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When hope is lost American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Philip R. Appel
Rehabilitation Medicine and Palliative medicine have much in common as both specialties deal with loss and impending loss related to incurable medical conditions. Significant losses are encountered...
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Palliative hypnosis approaches in the symptomatic treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 John E. Franklin
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, incurable, and ultimately fatal, devastating, progressive degenerative neurologic disease. It causes upheaval in the lives of patients and family care...
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The “well-sibling” syndrome: hypnosis for the siblings of special needs children American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Reinhild Draeger-Muenke
Often overlooked by caregivers because of their ability to adapt to a challenging home life by making few demands themselves, the siblings of special needs children have unacknowledged needs of the...
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Age regression in the treatment of needle phobia: a case report American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Ran D. Anbar, Rosslyn Farnan, Mac E. Lancaster
Trypanophobia (needle phobia) frequently occurs because of negative encounters with medical procedures and/or needles. Trypanophobia ranges in severity from causing mild anxiety, including apprehen...
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Why all child clinicians should be hypnosis-informed. Advantages, benefits, creativity, & development: ABC’s & D American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Julie H. Linden
This paper advocates for all child clinicians to learn hypnosis skills as a distinct advantage to enhance their understanding of child development in the treatment of children. It examines the inte...
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The use of hypnotic communication in PICC placement: randomized controlled trial study American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Davide Monolo, Michela Barisone, Giuseppe Cordio, Marco Della Sanità, Chiara Airoldi, Danilo Radrizzani, Erika Bassi, Alberto Dal Molin, Chiara Gallione
Every time a patient undergoes a medical procedure, unpredicted personal stress occurs. According to the available literature, the hypnotic communication technique has been used to reduce stress an...
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Humor, hypnosis and kids American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Linda Thomson
ABSTRACT Bertrand Russell, philosopher and Nobel prize winner said “Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.” Humor as medicine may be just what the doctor ordered to keep us emotionally, mentally and physically fit. Children are not only wonderful hypnotic subjects, they love laughter and silliness. The therapeutic effectiveness of hypnotherapy
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Immediate hypnosis effects and outcome predictors in chronic nociplastic pain American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Anna Dominika Kaczmarska, Krzysztof Rutkowski, Michał Mielimąka
ABSTRACT This study used data from a randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of hypnosis with analgesic suggestions relative to hypnosis with nonspecific suggestions to explore two areas. The first was the immediate effects of each hypnosis session and their relevance to the treatment induced change in pain intensity. The second was the identification of variables associated with the beneficial
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Hypnosis in the treatment of retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction: A case report American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Ran D. Anbar, Noah A. Spence
ABSTRACT Retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) causes an inability to belch. This case report describes the successful treatment of R-CPD with the use of hypnosis. Thereafter, the patient was able to burp small amounts of air, and was encouraged to continue his use of hypnosis as needed. Hypnosis and possibly other noninvasive treatments should be used for R-CPD before employment of more invasive
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The impact of social media use on depression, anxiety, and well-being for teens/young people: using hypnosis to build a strong sense of self American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Tobi B. Goldfus
ABSTRACT The national conversation continues to focus on the negative impact of social media on teens/young people. The lingering effects of the pandemic revealed sharp increases in the common practice of “compare and despair” as well as higher rates of loneliness, isolation, depression, and self-harming behaviors. In May 2023, the US Surgeon General warned that social media “is the defining public
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Hypnotic and direct suggestions affect attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Ruoyun Hu, Xiaoyan Dai, Juzhe Xi, Ya Zhang
ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of hypnotic suggestions on improving attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH). The study administered the Chinese version of the ATSPPH scale on 303 college students, of which 61 with low levels of ATSPPH were recruited as the participants (male: 18; female: 43). All participants were tested with the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic
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Applying process-oriented hypnosis to treat perfectionism-related depression American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Shawn R. Criswell
This paper brings together concepts, tools, and case examples that provide guidance for ways to use process-oriented clinical hypnosis to shift perfectionistic tendencies to help resolve depression...
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Unraveling depression: Principles and practices of clinical hypnosis American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Douglas Flemons
People struggling with depression are burdened by losses they can’t and won’t accept. They find themselves at odds not only with their circumstances, but also with symptomatic expressions of their ...
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Using metaphors to build hope and hopefulness from depression American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 George W. Burns
Helplessness and hopelessness are common key dynamics of depression that often inhibit therapeutic progress and client recovery. Based on a case example, this article examines the processes for eff...
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Hypnosis with depressed children and teens: Building skills, creating connection American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Lynn Lyons
Depression in children and teens has been on the rise for several years. Recent increases in anxiety and loneliness, both contributors to the development of depression, are putting more young peopl...
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Addressing global cognition and ineffective depressogenic discrimination strategies with clinical hypnosis American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Michael D. Yapko
It is a fundamental truth in living that the quality of your decisions shapes the quality of your life. One’s cognitive style determines whether one is more likely to be detailed and linear in thin...
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Things that go bump in the night American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 David S. Alter
ABSTRACT Sleep disturbances take many forms. Negative health consequences are associated with nearly all of them. Insomnia, the most common sleep disturbance, can present as an inability to initiate sleep or to maintain sleep such that the restorative benefits of sleep are limited. This case report describes a client in her 60s who sought treatment for early morning awakening that persisted for four
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Pilot: does clinical hypnosis training impart the confidence needed to use it? American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Samuel Kohlenberg, Linda Gerson
ABSTRACT The clinical hypnosis literature suggests that confidence in new clinical skills is an important learning outcome; however, many current training standards for clinical hypnosis do not address outcomes such as confidence. To address this deficit, this pilot study asked whether clinical hypnosis instruction offered by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH) leads to learner confidence
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Editorial American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Stephen R. Lankton
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2023)
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American Society of Clinical Hypnosis 65th annual scientific meetings and workshops: March 2-5, 2023 keynote sessions American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-04-05
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2023)
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Hypnotic analgesia in chronic pain: role of psychopathology and alexithymia American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Antonella Ciaramella
ABSTRACT Although the belief that hypnotizability is a mental dysfunction has been refuted over time, there is still research today that seeks to explore and clarify this preconception. The results of recent research indicate that, on the contrary, greater psychopathology is more frequent in subjects with low hypnotic susceptibility. Using the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale type A (SHSS-A)
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49words: An active alert hypnosis protocol for stress regulation American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 David M. Wark
ABSTRACT People, worldwide, are in dire need of stress regulation. This paper presents a six step alert self-hypnosis protocol that individuals can use to regulate a wide variety of stresses. A brief anonymized case reports from a diverse range of clients follows the protocol’s six step outline. The step-by-step algorithm can be modified to address the unique circumstances of each client. Finally,
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Psychosocial effects of hypnosis in patients with obesity: a pilot randomized controlled trial American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Aurélie Untas, Kristopher Lamore, Fabienne Delestre, Guillaume Lehéricey, Philippe Giral, Emilie Cappe
ABSTRACT The usefulness of hypnosis in patients with obesity needs to be better understood in terms of various outcomes, in addition to weight loss. The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of hypnosis and self-hypnosis in combination with nutrition education for patients with obesity, as opposed to nutrition education alone, on the secondary outcomes of quality of life (QoL), coping
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A celebration of Irving Kirsch American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Etzel Cardeña
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 3, 2023)
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Irving Kirsch: a life beyond expectations American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Etzel Cardeña
ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the life of the eminent psychologist and hypnosis researcher and theoretician Irving Kirsch. It describes the strenuous lives and legacy of his immigrant parents, his lesser know activities as a satirical editor of a tape that was nominated for a Grammy, and as a violin player. The trajectory of his professional life evidences his courage to question conventional
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Irving Kirsch opens a window on antidepressant medications American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Emma Grace Chen, Alison Kate Oliver, Amir Raz
ABSTRACT When it comes to antidepressant medications – popular, backbone drugs of modern psychiatry – even learned scholars and savvy clinicians find it difficult to separate honest, rigorous research from that which thrives on hidden agendas and ulterior motives. Fortunately, a mounting corpus of data-based studies, mostly meta-analyses, casts new and critical light on the clinical efficacy, side
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“I would love to be ‘discredited’ like this more often”: An interview with Irving Kirsch American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Etzel Cardeña
ABSTRACT This interview with Professor Irving Kirsch took place in late August, 2022. He recently turned 80 years old and agreed to focus his interview on topics and areas that illustrate his influence on the field of hypnosis. Professor Kirsch discusses the influences that shaped him as a person and scientist; what unites his theoretical and research work on hypnosis, placebo, and antidepressants
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Clinical hypnosis as a nondeceptive placebo: empirically derived techniques American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Irving Kirsch
ABSTRACT Many psychological problems are maintained, in part, by dysfunctional response expectancies, and changing those expectations is an essential part of treatment. Hypnotic inductions alter response expectancies and have been shown empirically to substantially enhance the effects of psychotherapy. Therefore, hypnosis can be used therapeutically as a nondeceptive placebo. Expectancy plays a major
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Advancing Psychotherapy: Transforming Conversations in Dialogue with Milton Erickson, Jay Haley, and John Weakland American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Donald Moss
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 3, 2023)
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Review of the international hypnosis literature American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Shelagh Freedman, Ian Wickramasekera II
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 3, 2023)
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In memoriam to Peter Brower Bloom, MD, 1936-2022 American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Joan Jobsis, Julie Linden
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 3, 2023)
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Do expectations influence pain? Recognizing Irving Kirsch’s contribution to our understanding of pain American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Cosima Locher, Helen Koechlin
ABSTRACT Pain is a universal experience that can take different forms, and it can be acute or chronic. Experimental pain, such as heat pain, can help us better understand the pain experience, as it induces transient, but robust central sensitization in participants. Central sensitization is considered a key underlying concept in the development and maintenance of chronic pain and is defined as an overly
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Editorial American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Stephen Lankton
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022)
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A hypnotic turbo-induction technique for wisdom tooth extraction American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Albrecht Schmierer, Leonardo De Col, Thomas Stöcker, Thomas G. Wolf
ABSTRACT The hypnotic turbo-induction technique has been used for more than three decades for various indications in dentistry and medicine. The use of the technique is described step by step using therapeutic communication and hypnotic suggestions in a dento-surgical treatment of a 48-year-old adult man. In a 15-minute appointment, two maxillary third molars (wisdom teeth) have been extracted without
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Therapeutic hypnosis in a child with a written language disorder American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Célia Hery-Niaussat, Véronique Ossart, Philippe Penigault, Philippe Robert, Valeria Manera, Auriane Gros
ABSTRACT Children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) frequently have low self-awareness and attentional deficits on which therapeutic hypnosis can have a positive impact. Here we investigated the contribution of therapeutic hypnosis in the treatment of written language disorders in a child with ADHD. This study is a Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) using repeated measures
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The response set theory of hypnosis reconsidered: toward an integrative model American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Steven Jay Lynn, Joseph P. Green, Anoushiravan Zahedi, Clément Apelian
ABSTRACT Irving Kirsch is a leading figure in the field of psychological science who has advanced our understanding of hypnosis in key respects that have withstood the tests of time and replication. We honor his prodigious contributions over his distinguished career and extend his response expectancy theory in an integrative model that encompasses predictive coding. We review the construct of expectancies
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Review of the international hypnosis literature American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Shelagh Freedman, Ian Wickramasekera II
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022)
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Pauline in catalepsy and psycho therapeutics: Pauline’s own lessons in catalepsy and the law of suggestion American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Eric K. Willmarth
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022)
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Changing children’s lives with hypnosis: A journey to the center American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Eric K. Willmarth
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 2, 2022)
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Age progression therapy techniques in hypnosis American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Moshe S. Torem
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 1, 2022)
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Emanated imagery: Shaping presupposed success American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Stephen R. Lankton
ABSTRACT It is common for psychotherapy interventions used in the context of hypnosis to address events in the client’s past or present including decisions, traumas, parataxic distortions (Sullivan, 1970), suppressed emotions and so on. Unlike conventional psychotherapy, hypnosis has a well-known and commonly referred to perceptual phenomenon called “future-orientation in time.” While this feature
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Memorial to Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., ABPH American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 D. Corydon Hammond
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 1, 2022)
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Hypnotizability and psychopathology of patients with personality disorders American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Anna Dominika Kaczmarska, Michał Mielimąka, Krzysztof Rutkowski
ABSTRACT Assessment of hypnotizability is useful in research and predicting the effects of hypnosis in clinical practice. There are few contemporary scientific reports examining the relationship between hypnotizability and psychopathological personality dimensions. The current study explores the connections between abnormal personality in psychiatric patients and the hypnotizability level. Fifty-five
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Modern and traditional trance language: a comparison American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Sarah Karrasch, Johanna Alisa Jung, Suchithra Varadarajan, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Walter Bongartz
ABSTRACT This study compares the effects of two trance texts using different language patterns, i.e., modern trance language (MTL) characterized by indirect suggestions as well as narrative style and traditional trance language (TTL) found in traditional societies (e.g., Navajo, San, Aranda aborigines, etc.) that uses multiple repetitions along with narrative sequences. The Phenomenology of Consciousness
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Future projection therapy: Techniques and case examples American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Joseph Tramontana, Anna Sharkey, Savannah Hays
ABSTRACT As noted by some recent authors, psychotherapy has traditionally focused primarily on how the past affects present functioning. For example, in the hypnosis literature, there is much written about age regression and more recently there has been a focus on the future. In the 1950ʹs there was discussions about embodying expectancy and pseudo-orientation-in-time, but there was not much in the
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Review of the international hypnosis literature American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Shelagh Freedman, Ian Wickramasekera II
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 65, No. 1, 2022)