American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis back issues from July 2003:
Editorial
Jul 01, 2003; ... Perhaps one of the emerging themes in the 2003 Journal issues is that of courage. In our previous issue we noted the courageousness of Jasper 's willingness to share lessons he had learned from working with an unusual case and Ginandes' and Brook's intrepid foray into learning more about whether ...
Efficacy or effectiveness: Which comes first, the cure or the treatment?
Jul 01, 2003; ... Keywords: Alliance, cure, hypnosis, effectiveness, efficacy, treatment The old adage asks, "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" In our discussions concerning the effectiveness or efficacy of hypnosis and psychotherapy, we often find ourselves wondering which should come first, ...
Efficacy vs. effectiveness research in psychotherapy: Implications for clinical hypnosis
Jul 01, 2003; ... Empirically supported therapy (EST) has become a major focus and trend for mental health practice. When hypnosis is involved, this may mean satisfying a standard that is entirely too narrow in its emphasis. In this article "efficacy"-based research in clinical practice is contrasted with ...
A project to change the attitudes, beliefs and practices of health professionals concerning hypnosis
Jul 01, 2003; ... This study describes an educational project designed to change the beliefs, attitudes and practices of health care professionals concerning hypnosis and hypnotherapy. The purpose of the study was to investigate whether an educational offering that dispelled myths and misconceptions of hypnosis, ...
The hypnotic belay in alpine mountaineering: THe use of self-hypnosis for the resolution of sports injuries and for performance enhancement
Jul 01, 2003; ... The author, an experienced alpine mountaineer, sustained several traumatic climbing injuries over a two-year period. This article describes her multiple uses of self-- hypnosis to deal with several challenges related to her returning to successful mountain climbing. She used self-hypnosis for ...
Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions
Jul 01, 2003; ... Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions. George Gafner & Sonja Benson. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company (2002). x + 177 pages, $30.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by: Mitch Smith, MSW, Camp Hill, PA. In Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions, George Gafner and Sonja Benson provide over two dozen ...
Hypnotic Techniques for Standard Psychotherapy and Formal Hypnosis
Jul 01, 2003; ... Hypnotic Techniques for Standard Psychotherapy and Formal Hypnosis. George Gafner & Sonja Benson. New York: W.W. Norton (2003). 224 pages, $40. Reviewed by Chuck Mutter, M.D., Aventura, FL. The authors have designed a text that is compelling for clinicians who use indirect and ...
Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego Strengthening
Jul 01, 2003; ... Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego Strengthening. Claire Frederick, M.D. & Shirley McNeal, Ph.D. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates (1998). 392 pages, $47.50. Reviewed by: Max P. Shapiro, Ph.D., Newton, MA. There is a handful of books, I ...
The Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts
Jul 01, 2003; ... The Worst Is Over: What to Say When Every Moment Counts. Judith Acosta & Judith Prager. San Diego, CA: Jodere (2002). 310 pages plus glossary and bibliography, $23.95. Reviewed by: Marlene Hunter, M.D., Vancouver, BC. This is a very useful book about one of the most important ...
Breaking Patterns of Depression: Hypnosis and Building Resources
Jul 01, 2003; ... Breaking Patterns of Depression: Hypnosis and Building Resources. Michael D. Yapko. Phoenix, AZ: Zeig, Tucker and Theisen, Inc., Publishers (1999). 95 minute videotape, VHS $79.95. Reviewed by: Philip L. Accaria, Ph.D., Upper Montclair, NJ Breaking Patterns of Depression: Hypnosis and ...
Brief Cognitive Hypnosis: Facilitating the Change of Dysfunctional Behavior
Jul 01, 2003; ... Brief Cognitive Hypnosis: Facilitating the Change of Dysfunctional Behavior. Jordan I. Zarren and Bruce N. Eimer. New York: Springer Publishing Company (2002). xx + 300 pages, $ 42.95. Reviewed by Neil A. Fiore, Ph.D., Berkeley, CA. From a base of considerable experience and expertise, ...
Cognitive Hypnotherapy
Jul 01, 2003; ... Cognitive Hypnotherapy. Thomas E. Dowd. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson (2002). 240 pages, $40. Reviewed by: Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D., ABPP, Philadelphia, PA. Cognitive therapy, or CT, as elaborated by Aaron T. Beck and his associates (Beck et al., 1979; J. Beck, 1995), is a highly ...
Hypnosis & Counselling in the Treatment of Chronic Illness
Jul 01, 2003; ... Hypnosis & Counselling in the Treatment of Chronic Illness. David Frank & Bernard Mooney, Ph.D. Carmarthen, Wales: Crown House Publishing (2002). v+142 pp., $37.95. Reviewed by: Thomas J. Barr, Ph.D., Louisville, CO. In Hypnosis & Counselling in the Treatment of Chronic ...
Managing Pain Before It Manages You
Jul 01, 2003; ... Managing Pain Before It Manages You (Revised Edition). Margaret A. Caudill. New York: The Guilford Press (2002). 222 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by: Carol Ginandes, Ph.D.; McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Managing Pain Before It Manages You is a self-help workbook published for a ...
The effect of hypnotic-guided imagery on psychological well-being and immune function in patients with prior breast cancer
Jul 01, 2003; ... Bakke, A. C., Purtzer, M. Z., & Newton, P. (2002). The effect of hypnotic-guided imagery on psychological well-being and immune function in patients with prior breast cancer. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 53(6), 1131-1137. This study sought to determine the effect of "hypnotic-guided ...
The use of hypnosis to help an anxious student with a social communication disorder to attend school
Jul 01, 2003; ... Byron, D. (2002). The use of hypnosis to help an anxious student with a social communication disorder to attend school. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(3), 125-132. This is a case study of the use of hypnosis for anxiety management and ego-- strengthening with a patient with a social communication ...
Request-to-suggestion carryover: When responses to requests affect responses to suggestions
Jul 01, 2003; ... Gorassini, D. R. (2002). Request-to-suggestion carryover: When responses to requests affect responses to suggestions. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(4), 172-178. This study evaluated how behavior made in response to requests (e.g., "Raise your arm") influenced responsiveness to suggestions (e.g., ...
Hypnosis as a countermeasure against the polygraph test of deception: Bibliographic resources
Jul 01, 2003; ... Gravitz, M. A. (2002). Hypnosis as a countermeasure against the polygraph test of deception: Bibliographic resources. Polygraph, 31(4), 293-297. For more than a century technical instrumentation measuring various psychophysiological responses has been used in an effort to detect willful and ...
Individual differences in personality, immunology and mood in patients undergoing self-hypnosis training for the successful treatment of a chronic viral illness, HSV-2
Jul 01, 2003; ... Gruzelier, J., Champion, A., Fox, P., Rollin, M., McCormack, S., Catalan, P., Barton, S., & Henderson, D. (2002). Individual differences in personality, immunology and mood in patients undergoing self-hypnosis training for the successful treatment of a chronic viral illness, HSV-2 ....
The involvement of frontally modulated attention in hypnosis and hypnotic susceptibility: Cortical evoked potential evidence
Jul 01, 2003; ... Gruzelier, J., Gray, M., & Horn, P. (2002). The involvement of frontally modulated attention in hypnosis and hypnotic susceptibility: Cortical evoked potential evidence. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(4), 179-189. Those readers who are interested in what occurs in the brain during hypnosis will ...
Conceptual issues in hypnosis research: Explanations, definitions and the state/non-state debate
Jul 01, 2003; ... Hasegawa, H., & Jamieson, G. A. (2002). Conceptual issues in hypnosis research: Explanations, definitions and the state/non-state debate. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(3), 103-117. This paper seeks to integrate streams of hypnosis and research theory into a broader context. They present a ...
A systematic meta-review of hypnosis as an empirically supported treatment for pain
Jul 01, 2003; ... Hawkins, R. M. F. (2001). A systematic meta-review of hypnosis as an empirically supported treatment for pain. Pain Reviews, 8, 47-73. A newly developed methodology, the systematic meta-review, was applied to ascertain whether hypnosis is an empirically supported treatment for pain. This ...
Field dependence, suggestibility and belief in paranormal phenomena
Jul 01, 2003; ... Hergovich, A. (2003). Field dependence, suggestibility and belief in paranormal phenomena. Personality & Individual Differences, 34(2), 195-209. The author conducted three experiments with 280 subjects (ages 17-68 years) examining relationships between field dependence, hypnotic ...
A review of hypnosis in the treatment of parasomnias: Nightmare, sleepwalking, and sleep terror disorders
Jul 01, 2003; ... Kennedy, G. A. (2002). A review of hypnosis in the treatment of parasomnias: Nightmare, sleepwalking, and sleep terror disorders. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 30(2), 99-155. Hypnosis was utilized to treat patients with the primary parasomnias: nightmare, ...
Subjective and objective assessment methods of mental imagery control: Construct validation of self-report measures
Jul 01, 2003; ... Lequerica, A., Rapport, L., Axelrod, B. N.,, Telmet, K., & Whitman, R. D. (2002). Subjective and objective assessment methods of mental imagery control: construct validation of self-report measures. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology, 24(8), 1103-1116. This study examined ...
Hypnosis as an adjunct to habit reversal in the treatment of chronic facial motor tics
Jul 01, 2003; ... Mazzucchelli, T. G. (2002). Hypnosis as an adjunct to habit reversal in the treatment of chronic facial motor tics. Australian Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 30(2), 188-197. A case study of the treatment of a 52-year-old woman for two facial motor tics. The therapy focused on ...
Are recommendations to avoid hypnotic aftereffects being implemented?
Jul 01, 2003; ... Page, R. A., & Green, J. (2002). Are recommendations to avoid hypnotic aftereffects being implemented? Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(4), 167-171. To determine if recommendations that have been made through the years to avoid hypnotic sequelae are being implemented, a seven-item survey was sent ...
A single session of hypnosis and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of chronic pain
Jul 01, 2003; ... Ray, P., & Page, A. C. (2002). A single session of hypnosis and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) in the treatment of chronic pain. Australian Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 30(2), 170-178. Hypnosis and EMDR were examined in the treatment of chronic pain ...
Frequency of occurrence of the F wave in distal flexor muscles as a function of hypnotic susceptibility and hypnosis
Jul 01, 2003; ... Santarcangelo, E. L., Busse, K., & Carli, G. (2003). Frequency of occurrence of the F wave in distal flexor muscles as a function of hypnotic susceptibility and hypnosis. Brain Research & Cognitive Brain Research, 16(1), 99-103. This study assessed whether the membrane excitability of ...
Dialogical components in theory-building: Contributions of Hilgard, Orne and Spanos
Jul 01, 2003; ... Sarbin, T. R. (2002). Dialogical components in theory-building: Contributions of Hilgard, Orne and Spanos. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(4), 190-197. The author believes that the many contributions of these three authors constitute "a deferred dialogue." The dialogical format is one of advancing a ...
Human hypnosis: Autonomic and electroencephalographic correlates of a guided multimodal cognitive-emotional imagery
Jul 01, 2003; ... Sebastiani, L., Simoni, A., Gemignani, A., Ghelarducci, B. &, Santarcangelo, E. L. (2003). Human hypnosis: Autonomic and electroencephalographic correlates of a guided multimodal cognitive-emotional imagery. Neuroscience Letters, 338(1), 41-44. The effects of a guided neutral and unpleasant ...
Autonomic and EEG correlates of emotional imagery in subjects with different hypnotic susceptibility
Jul 01, 2003; ... Sebastiani, L., Simoni, A., Gemignani, A., Ghelarducci, B. &, Santarcangelo, E. L. (2003). Autonomic and EEG correlates of emotional imagery in subjects with different hypnotic susceptibility. Brain Research Bulletin, 60(1-2), 151-160. The authors studied autonomic and EEG correlates of the ...
Relaxation and imagery for anxiety and depression control in community patients with advanced cancer
Jul 01, 2003; ... Sloman, R. (2002). Relaxation and imagery for anxiety and depression control in community patients with advanced cancer. Cancer Nursing, 25(6), 432-435. This was a community-based nursing study comparing the effects of progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery on anxiety, depression, and ...
Cortisol, prolactin, growth hormone and neurovegetative responses to emotions elicited during an hypnoidal state
Jul 01, 2003; ... Sobrinho, L. G, Simoes, M., Barbosa, L., Raposo, J. F., Pratas, S., Fernandes, P. L., & Santos, M. A. (2003). Cortisol, prolactin, growth hormone and neurovegetative responses to emotions elicited during an hypnoidal state. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28(1), 1-17. This research examined the ...
Is response expectancy sufficient to account for hypnotic negative hallucinations?
Jul 01, 2003; ... Wagstaff, G. F., Toner, S., & Cole, J. (2002). Is response expectancy sufficient to account for hypnotic negative hallucinations? Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(3), 133-- 138. This study represents another blow to expectancy theorists. According to response expectancy theory, hypnotic phenomena ...
Chronic psychosomatic pain alleviated by brief therapy
Jul 01, 2003; ... Williamson, A. (2002). Chronic psychosomatic pain alleviated by brief therapy. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19(3), 118-124. Presents a case of a man with intractable pain who rapidly responded to an intervention releasing suppressed anger and a revivification of a previous ...
A phase I study on the feasibility and acceptability of an acupuncture/hypnosis intervention for chronic pediatric pain
Jul 01, 2003; ... Zeltzer, L. K., Tsao, J. C., Stelling, C., Powers, M., Levy, S., & Waterhouse, M. (2002). A phase I study on the feasibility and acceptability of an acupuncture/hypnosis intervention for chronic pediatric pain. Journal of Pain Symptom Management, 24(4), 437-446. This was a Phase I ...
Handbook of Hypnosis for Professionals, Second Edition
Jul 01, 2003; ... Handbook of Hypnosis for Professionals, Second Edition. Roy Udolf, J.D., Ph.D., Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson (1995). 531 pages, $70. Reviewed by David S. Alter, Ph.D., Minneapolis, MN. Not a week goes by in which patients coming to my office don't raise predictable reservations whenever ...