Hypnotherapy For Smoking Cessation

According to the National Mental Health Association, anxiety-related disorders cost the United States $42 billion a year in work-related and medical losses (NIMH, 1999). About 11 percent of adults over age 55 have an anxiety disorder (USSG, 1999), and about 13 percent of children between 9 and 17 years old have an anxiety disorder (USSG, [...]

Benefits of Hypnotherapy By Harold L. Burke, Ph.D. Hypnosis, hypnotherapy, clinical hypnosis, medical hypnosis Hypnosis is a technique that may help an individual to enter an extremely relaxed but focused state. This state is usually altered from what the individual was in prior to the hypnotic induction, but it is a very natural and common [...]

Hypnosis in the Medical Community The benefits of hypnosis have been known for decades. As far back as 1958, the American Medical Association certified hypnosis as a legitimate treatment tool. The National Institutes of Health also recognized hypnosis as an effective intervention in 1996. However, despite its effectiveness, scientists could not explain how hypnosis generated [...]

… Recognized by AMA In 1958 hypnosis was recognized by the American Medical Association as a legitimate, safe approach to medical and psychological problems. Today more people recognize that the mind and body interact. Mind and body are integrated parts of a whole being; a change in one part affects the other. Hypnosis is a [...]

Medical Hypnosis in the Hospital by Gérard V. Sunnen, M.D. BACK TO HOME Hypnosis has many applications for relieving distress in hospitalized patients. Gérard V. Sunnen, M.D., a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist, describes the ways in which hypnotic techniques can help patients undergo medical procedures, surgery, and rehabilitation therapy and cope with life-threatening illness. Sunnen cites [...]

The medical hypnosis program offered by the Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine (SCIM) is designed to be an integrated component of a patient’s overall medical care. Hypnosis allows patients to focus intently on a specific problem and its resolution while maintaining a comfortable state of physical relaxation. It also helps patients to enhance control over [...]

Medical Hypnosis: An Underutilized Treatment Approach By Brian Alman, PhD Abstract Context: Use of hypnosis in medical practice has long been controversial, but recent developments in medical hypnosis–in particular, the understanding that the power of hypnosis resides mainly in the patient–have profound implications for treatment.Objective: To illustrate and explain the therapeutically useful application of hypnosis [...]

I have several CDs on anxiety and this one, so far, is my favorite. It is 2 CDs which cover the education side (what is anxiety? what are the categories of anxiety disorders? what causes anxiety? what types of treatments are out there?) and the treatment side (medical hypnosis). It is the first time I [...]

Its becoming clear that Americans are searching for complimentary healthcare options and dont mind paying out-of-pocket if the treatment of choice is not covered by insurance. The Eisenberg studies of 1991 and 1997 uncovered the startling fact that Americans spend as much out-of-pocket for complimentary healthcare as they do for inpatient hospitalizations. Historically, the model [...]

Now medical personnel can consult directly with a physician on the appropriate use of medical support hypnotherapy. As medical support hypnosis has been shown (see Scientific Basis For Medical Support Hypnotherapy ) to be an effective tool for improving the outcome of patient care in areas such as, accelerated healing and pain control, how to [...]