American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis back issues from July 2004:
Editorial
Jul 01, 2004; ... Literature Searches Starting with this issue we are publishing literature searches from recently approved grants in which hypnosis is a major factor. These literature searches are requested and are not reviewed. Your comments about this addition will be welcome. I have been ...
Competition: How Hypnosis Can Help Women to Hold Their Own in the Workplace
Jul 01, 2004; ... This paper takes the perspective that competitive strivings in self and others have been an area of difficulty for women and that gender socialization has played a significant role. The author discusses elements of competition that seem toxic for women and proposes descriptors of healthy ...
Can Hypnosis Reduce Hot Flashes in Breast Cancer Survivors? A Literature Review
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hot flashes are a significant problem for many breast cancer survivors and can cause discomfort, insomnia, anxiety, and decreased quality of life. In the past, the standard treatment for hot flashes has been hormone replacement therapy. However, recent research has found an increased risk of ...
The Legacy of Milton H. Erickson: Selected Papers of Stephen Gilligan
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Legacy of Milton H. Erickson: Selected Papers of Stephen Gilligan. Stephen Gilligan. Phoenix, AZ: Zeig, Tucker, & Thiesen, Inc. (2002). 346 pages. Milton H. Erickson made a lifelong impression on the physicians, psychiatrists, dentists, psychologists, and social workers who ...
Joan of Arc Meets Mary Poppins: Maternal Re-nurturing Approaches with Male Patients in Ego-State Therapy
Jul 01, 2004; ... Many patients with posttraumatic fragmentation demonstrate a positive response to the corrective possibilities provided through ego-state therapy. However, full resolution of presenting symptoms may not occur for individuals with significant childhood histories of parental abuse and neglect ...
Loving in the Here and Now
Jul 01, 2004; ... Loving in the Here and Now. Jane Parsons-Fein, CSW, BCD, DAHB. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin (2004). 207 pages. Reviewed by: Jordan I. Zarren, MSW, DAHB, West Palm Beach, FL. Jane Parsons-Fein has written an extraordinary book to help individuals and couples recreate their ...
Clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation: Preliminary results of a three-session intervention
Jul 01, 2004; ... Elkins, G. R. & Rajab, M. H. (2004). Clinical hypnosis for smoking cessation: Preliminary results of a three-session intervention. International journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(1), 73-81. This is a report of an uncontrolled case series. The authors describe an ...
Intensive Therapy: Utilizing Hypnosis in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hypnosis was once a viable treatment approach for addictions. Then, due to hypnosis being used for entertainment purposes many professionals lost confidence in it. However, it has now started to make a comeback in the treatment of substance abuse. The approach described here, using hypnosis for ...
Hypnosis, memory, and frontal executive functioning
Jul 01, 2004; ... Farvolden, P. & Woody, E. Z. (2004). Hypnosis, memory, and frontal executive functioning. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(1), 326. This study sought to compare the performance of high and low hypnotizable subjects on a variety of memory tasks believed to be ...
Self-hypnosis and osteopathic soft tissue manipulation with a ballet dancer
Jul 01, 2004; ... Gordon, C-M. & Gruzelier, J. (2003). Self-hypnosis and osteopathic soft tissue manipulation with a ballet dancer. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20(4), 209-214. Describes a single case study of a burned-out ballet dancer where self-hypnosis, ego-strengthening, osteopathy, and NLP were used to assist ...
Optimizing Control of Pain from Severe Burns: A Literature Review
Jul 01, 2004; ... The importance of assessing and treating pain was made salient recently when the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO, 2000) declared that pain should be regarded as the fifth vital sign. Yet, the literature suggests that problems with undertreatment of pain have ...
The effect of hypnotherapy on procedural pain and state anxiety related to physiotherapy in women hospitalized in a burn unit
Jul 01, 2004; ... Harandi, A. A., Esfandani, A., & Shakibaei, F. (2004). The effect of hypnotherapy on procedural pain and state anxiety related to physiotherapy in women hospitalized in a burn unit. Contemporary Hypnosis, 27(1), 28-34. In a randomized clinical trial in Iran, the authors evaluated the ...
Does hypnotizability modulate the stress-related endothelial dysfunction?
Jul 01, 2004; ... Jambrik, Z., Santarcangelo, E. L., Ghelarducci, B., Picano, E., & Sebastiani, L. (2004). Does hypnotizability modulate the stress-related endothelial dysfunction? Brain Research Bulletin, 63(3), 213-216. Some studies have suggested that hypnotizability represents a protective factor against ...
Assembling Ericksonian Therapy: The Collected Papers of Stephen Lankton, Volume I: 1985-2002
Jul 01, 2004; ... Assembling Ericksonian Therapy: The Collected Papers of Stephen Lankton, Volume I: 1985-2002. Stephen Lankton, MSW. Phoenix, AZ: Zeig, Tucker, & Theisen, Inc. (2004). 287 pages. Reviewed by: Norma Barrett, Ph.D., Rolling Hills Estates, CA. During a weeklong residential workshop in ...
Thirteen days: Joseph Delboeuf versus Pierre Janet on the nature of hypnotic suggestion
Jul 01, 2004; ... LeBlanc, A. (2004). Thirteen days: Joseph Delboeuf versus Pierre Janet on the nature of hypnotic suggestion. Journal of History & Behavioral Science, 40(2), 123-147. The article indicates that ideas about posthypnotic suggestion were introduced in 1884 wherein a subject was given a ...
Hypnotic means of enhancing "being" towards the improvement of "doing": Strategies in dealing with people suffering from performance anxieties
Jul 01, 2004; ... Livnay, S. (2004). Hypnotic means of enhancing "being" towards the improvement of "doing": Strategies in dealing with people suffering from performance anxieties. Hypnos, 31(1), 3-14. Describes the author's 9-stage approach that is flexibly tailored to individual patients suffering with ...
Touching trauma: Combining hypnotic ego-strengthening and zero balancing
Jul 01, 2004; ... Edmunds, D. & Gafner, G. (2003). Touching trauma: Combining hypnotic ego-strengthening and zero balancing. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20(4), 215-220. A variety of somatic and psychological treatment modalities have been reported in literature addressing the physical and behavioral sequelae of ...
Virtual reality hypnosis: A case report
Jul 01, 2004; ... Patterson, D. R., Tininenko, J. R., Schmidt, A. E., & Sharar, S. R. (2004). Virtual reality hypnosis: A case report. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(1), 27-38. A preliminary case report on using hypnosis that was induced through a three-dimensional, ...
Correlates of imaginative and hypnotic suggestibility in children
Jul 01, 2004; ... Poulsen, B. C. & Matthews, W. J. (2003). Correlates of imaginative and hypnotic suggestibility in children. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20(4), 198-208. Extending research that Braffman and Kirsch ( 1999) did with adults, these authors examined the relationship between suggestibility and ...
Sex differences on the HGSHS:A
Jul 01, 2004; ... Rudski, J. M., Marra, L. C., & Graham, K. R. (2004). Sex differences on the HGSHS:A. International Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis, 52(1), 39-46. A huge sample of 724 men and 1148 women were given the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility over a 28 year period. Women ...
Focused analgesia and generalized relaxation produce differential hypnotic analgesia in response to ascending stimulus intensity
Jul 01, 2004; ... Sharav, Y. & Tal, M. (2004). Focused analgesia and generalized relaxation produce differential hypnotic analgesia in response to ascending stimulus intensity. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 52(2), 187-196. This study examined the effects of different types of hypnotic suggestion ...
On the efficacy of hypnosis: A meta-analytic study
Jul 01, 2004; ... Flammer, E. & Bongartz, W. (2003). On the efficacy of hypnosis: A meta-analytic study. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20(4), 179-197. The authors reviewed 444 studies on the efficacy of hypnosis published before 2002. Fifty-seven randomized studies were selected where there was an untreated control ...
New directions in forensic hypnosis: Facilitating memory with a focused meditation technique
Jul 01, 2004; ... Wagstaff, G., Brunas-Wagstaff, J., Cole, J., & Wheatcroft, J. (2004). New directions in forensic hypnosis: Facilitating memory with a focused meditation technique. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(1), 14-28. Some limitations and disadvantages to the use of forensic hypnosis are often discussed. As ...
Imagery rehearsal in the treatment of posttraumatic nightmares in Australian veterans with chronic combat-related PTSD: 12-month follow-up data
Jul 01, 2004; ... Forbes, D., Phelps, A. J., McHugh, A. F., Debenham, P., Hopwood, M., & Creamer, M. (2004). Imagery rehearsal in the treatment of posttraumatic nightmares in Australian veterans with chronic combat-related PTSD: 12-month follow-up data. Journal of Trauma Stress, 16(5), 509-513. Nightmares are ...
Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in postwar Kosovo high school students using mind-body skills groups: A pilot study
Jul 01, 2004; ... Gordon, J. S., Staples, J. K., Blyta, A., & Bytyqi, M. (2004). Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in postwar Kosovo high school students using mind-body skills groups: A pilot study. Journal of Trauma Stress, 17(2), 143-147. A preliminary study examined whether the practice of ...
A pilot randomized trial assessing the effects of autogenic training in early stage cancer patients in relation to psychological status and immune system responses
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hidderley, M. & Holt, M. (2004). A pilot randomized trial assessing the effects of autogenic training in early stage cancer patients in relation to psychological status and immune system responses. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 8(1), 61-65. Autogenic training (AT) is a structured, ...
Autogenic training reduces anxiety after coronary angioplasty: A randomized clinical trial
Jul 01, 2004; ... Kanji, N., White, A. R., & Ernst, E. (2004). Autogenic training reduces anxiety after coronary angioplasty: A randomized clinical trial. American Heart Journal, 147(3), ElO. Autogenic training (AT) is a structured type of self-hypnosis. This study evaluated whether AT lowers anxiety levels ...
Hypnotic susceptibility: Multidimensional relationships with Cloniger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT polymorphisms, absorption, and attentional characteristics
Jul 01, 2004; ... Lichtenberg, P., Bachner-Melman, R., Ebstein, R. P., & Crawford, H. J. (2004). Hypnotic susceptibility: Multidimensional relationships with Cloniger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT polymorphisms, absorption, and attentional characteristics. International Journal of Clinical ...
Correlates of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale in delinquent adolescents
Jul 01, 2004; ... Muris, P., Meesters, C., & Merckelbach, H. (2004). Correlates of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale in delinquent adolescents. Psychological Reports, 94(1), 264-266. Correlations between scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale, a measure of waking social influence, and a number of ...
The "therapeutic tertium": On the use and usefulness of an old metaphor
Jul 01, 2004; ... Peter, B. (2004). The "therapeutic tertium": On the use and usefulness of an old metaphor. Hypnos, 31(1), 22-32. The author believes that Erickson's concept of the "unconscious" has reactivated the concept of a "therapeutic tertium" that has been an essential ingredient of psychotherapy. The ...
A bioinformatics approach to the psychosocial genomics of therapeutic hypnosis
Jul 01, 2004; ... Rossi, E. L. (2004). A bioinformatics approach to the psychosocial genomics of therapeutic hypnosis. Hypnos, 31(1), 15-21. Rossi identifies hypnosis as a neuropsycho-physiological work function related to the bio-modal circadian profiles of hypnotic susceptibility, body temperature, and gene ...
Hypnotizability as an adaptive trait
Jul 01, 2004; ... Santarcangelo, E. L. & Sebastiani, L. (2004). Hypnotizability as an adaptive trait. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(1), 3-13. This article reviews their studies on hypnotizability and hypnotic modulation of the mind-body connection during relaxation and mental stress, regarded at as the extremes ...
Treatment with hypnotherapy reduces the sensory and motor component of the gastrocolonic response in irritable bowel syndrome
Jul 01, 2004; ... Simren, M., Ringstrom, G., Bjornsson, E. S., & Abrahamsson, H. (2004). Treatment with hypnotherapy reduces the sensory and motor component of the gastrocolonic response in irritable bowel syndrome. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66(2), 233-238. Postprandial symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome are ...
Hypnotherapeutic insights and interventions: A cancer odyssey
Jul 01, 2004; ... Walker, L. G. (2004). Hypnotherapeutic insights and interventions: A cancer odyssey. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(1), 34-45. Cancer diagnosis and treatment are often stressful and high rates of psychological and psychiatric disorders have been consistently reported. Evidence exists that this ...