Therapeutic Hypnosis Demystified

You will not only discover what hypnosis is all about but also learn how it can be applied to different areas in your desired personal improvements. This book does not only cover the history, it will take you up until the 21st century's recent developments in this area. In a direct no-nonsense approach.

Hypnotherapy provides a powerful tool for utilizing the power of the mind to reduce distress and suffering. This concise guide provides readers with a rich source of ideas on starting hypnotherapy practice, and thinking seriously about hypnosis as a powerful adjunct to psychotherapy and medical interventions. With a clear definition of what hypnosis really is, readers can develop an understanding of the rationale for utilising hypnotherapy with particular disorders.As the medical community is progressively adopting a biopsychosocial model of healing, there is a serious move toward validating the scientific credibility of hypnosis, and hypnotherapy has become a well-established treatment. Unlike any other introductory text, "Hypnotherapy Explained" adopts a uniquely scientific approach among introductory texts; reviewing theories and offering practical ways to integrate hypnotherapy in medical, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice. It is enlightening reading for general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists and other healthcare professionals.

Self-hypnosis can be a simple yet powerful tool for self-transformation. In this comprehensive guide to making sense of the mysteries of your mind, research psychologist Adam Burke explores how to integrate self-hypnosis into your daily life for a newly engaged outlook with heightened control of your mind and destiny.

Littered with real-life case histories, this fascinating and easy-to-read explanation of what hypnosis is, how it can be used and how the subconscious creates the many and varied conditions and symptoms which can be so effectively treated with Curative Hypnotherapy. David Lesser's pioneering work into the understanding of the subconscious and how to actually identify and correct the cause of symptoms remains the foundation of Curative Hypnotherapy to this day. The understanding and application of this fascinating therapy continue to advance, but the concepts so simply explained in this, his first book on the subject, provide an excellent introduction to what is now known as 'Lesserian Curative Hypnotherapy'.

Few therapies in the history of medicine have enjoyed simultaneously such widespread acclaim and such universal condemnation as has hypnosis. To some extent these opposing attitudes still prevail. However, recent years have witnessed advances in experimental and therapeutic hypnosis which have tended to establish hypnotherapy firmly as a scientific treatment method. The present volume is a contribution to the growing literature on therapeutic hypnosis. It issues out of experimental work with hypnosis in the treatment of various emotional difficulties, and it attempts to delineate the utilities and limitations, as well as advantages and disadvantages, of hypnotherapy. A considerable portion of Volume One is devoted to a step-by-step description of the induction process, illustrating various induction methods by excerpts from transcriptions of actual hypnotic sessions. There is a didactic discussion of the principles of psychotherapy, and of the psychopathologic factors in the different disease syndromes. Therapeutic methods applicable to the existing dynamics and the contributions hypnosis has to make to the treatment plan are also elaborated on in some detail. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Hypnotic Regression Therapy, or HRT, is a type of hypnotherapy in which, following the induction of a good trance state, specialized suggestions are given to guide the client in reviewing and emotionally reframing earlier experiences that have either caused or contributed to the client's current symptoms. HRT is considered one of the most valuable hypnotherapy techniques available today, yet it remains controversial, partly due to inadequate training of psychotherapists and hypnotherapists which has contributed to numerous cases of false memory syndrome.

Demystifying Hypnosis was written with the intention of clarifying hypnotism and its place in the suggestive therapies field. There have been many misconceptions and misunderstandings and false interpretations that have led to the field being in conflict between its members. The book aims to provide proof that in an attempt to restore hypnotism as it was intended to be defined in the early 1800s. It highlights those that contributed to it development, those that created contradiction and a possible way forward proposed by the author.