American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis back issues from October 2007:
Guest Editorial: Designing Effective Research Protocols for Medical Applications of Hypnosis
Oct 01, 2007; ... This issue of the Journal focuses on medical applications of hypnosis. The contributed articles describe a spectrum of clinical hypnosis in the primary care fields of obstetrics (VandeVusse, Irland, Berner, Fuller, & Adams, 2007) and pediatrics (Berberich, 2007), as well as the specialty ...
Hypnosis for Childbirth: A Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Outcomes in One Obstetrician's Practice
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract This exploratory, descriptive study, done retrospectively from perinatal medical records, compared childbirth outcomes in one obstetrician's caseload between 50 women who elected antepartal hypnosis preparation (usually a 5-class series) and 51 who did not. The groups were ...
Pediatric Suggestions: Using Hypnosis in the Routine Examination of Children
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract The recognition and utilization of trance phenomena in clinical pediatrics can energize the practitioner and be therapeutically beneficial for the child. The aim of this paper is to characterize and promote the purposeful inclusion of trance and suggestion in the routine ...
Psychocutaneous Hypnoanalysis: Detection and Deactivation of Emotional and Mental Root Factors in Psychosomatic Skin Disorders
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Many skin disorders have a significant psychosomatic component. Focused history-taking coupled with hypnoanalysis using ideomotor finger signals to detect positive responses to one or more of 7 common triggering or exacerbating factors permits systematic diagnosis of the ...
Selective biasing of a specific bistable-figure percept involves fMRI signal changes in frontostriatal circuits: A step toward unlocking the neural correlates of top-down control and self-regulation
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Attention, suggestion, context and expectation can all exert top-down influence on bottom-up processes (e.g., stimulus-driven mechanisms). Identifying the functional neuroanatomy that subserves top-down influences on sensory information processing can unlock the neural ...
Mind-Body Hypnotic Imagery in the Treatment of Auto-Immune Disorders
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract For many years Western Medicine has considered the immune system to be separate and independent from the central nervous system. However, significant scientific advances and research discoveries that occurred during the past 50 years have presented additional facts that the ...
User Friendly Hypnosis as an Adjunct for Treatment of Habit Cough: A Case Report
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract The more user friendly medical hypnosis can be, the more readily it will be accepted by patients and the medical community. Hypnosis is user friendly when it is simple to employ, and yields rapid, effective, and clinically significant results. Thus, we should define reasons for ...
Contextualizing specificity: Specific and non-specific effects of treatment
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Modern medicine thrives on the ideal of specific diseases, and specificity has revolutionized thinking in clinical practice (e.g., psychiatry) as well as biomedical research (e.g., neuroscience). Different notions of specificity exist (e.g., clinical, biological, and ...
A Commentary on Mumpsimus, Sumpsimus and the Mpemba Effect
Oct 01, 2007; ... A priest of legend incorrectly pronounced sumpsimus as mumpsimus for 30 years. When corrected, he said, "I'm not going to change my mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus!" His mumpsimus made him the first mumpsimus. Rare Words by Jan and Hallie Leighton (2004) Sumpsimus: adherence to ...
Psychic trauma
Oct 01, 2007; ... Brenner, I. (2004). Psychic trauma. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson Publishers. Ira Brenner is a psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania who is well known in the field of trauma. In this book, he presents an in-depth exploration of the dynamics, ...
The worst of evils: The fight against pain
Oct 01, 2007; ... Dormandy, T. (2006). The worst of evils: The fight against pain. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Reviewed by Howard Hall, Ph. D., Psy. D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, ...
The covert enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century counterculture and its aftermath
Oct 01, 2007; ... Gabay, A. J. (2005) The covert enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century counterculture and its aftermath. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation. As a historian, Alfred Gabay traces the complex web of hypnosis following the interactions between Mesmer, Swedenborg, and others from animal ...
Emotional resonance: The story of world-acclaimed psychotherapist Helen Watkins
Oct 01, 2007; ... Watkins, J. G. (2005). Emotional resonance: The story of world-acclaimed psychotherapist Helen Watkins. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications. Emotional Resonance is a biography of Helen (born Helyanthe) Huth Watkins, the co-creator of Ego State Therapy (Watkins & Watkins, 1997) and a ...
Hypnosis: Theory, research and application
Oct 01, 2007; ... Heap, M. & Kirsch, I. (Eds.) (2006). Hypnosis: Theory, research and application. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. Reviewed by Melvin A. Gravitz, Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health ...
Hypnosis efficacy in the treatment of eating disorders
Oct 01, 2007; ... Barabasz, M. (2007). Hypnosis efficacy in the treatment of eating disorders. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. The author provides a critical review of the use of hypnosis for helping patients with eating disorders. The review focuses on bulimia ...
Evidence-based clinical hypnosis in obstetrics, labor and delivery, and pre-term labor
Oct 01, 2007; ... Brown, D., & Hammond, D. C. (2007). Evidence-based clinical hypnosis in obstetrics, labor and delivery, and pre-term labor. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. This paper reviews the clinical literature on using hypnosis in obstetrics, labor and ...
Hypnotizability and imagery modality preference: Do highs and lows live in the same world?
Oct 01, 2007; ... Carli, GL, Cavalarro, E, & Santacangelo, E. L. (2007). Hypnotizability and imagery modality preference: Do highs and lows live in the same world? Contemporary Hypnosis, 24(2), 64-75. This is an interesting study of the possible neurophysiological differences between individuals with high and ...
Factorial analysis and psychometric properties of the revised Valencia scale of attitudes and beliefs towards hypnosis-client version
Oct 01, 2007; ... Carvalho, C, Capafons, A., Kirsch, I., Espejo, B., Mazzoni, G, & Leal, I. (2007). Factorial analysis and psychometric properties of the revised Valencia scale of attitudes and beliefs towards hypnosis-client version. Contemporary Hypnosk,24(2),l&%5. This article presents the revised ...
Brief hypnosis for severe needle phobia using switch wire imagery in a five-year-old girl
Oct 01, 2007; ... Cyna, A. M., Tomkins, D., Maddock, T., & Barker, D. (2007). Brief hypnosis for severe needle phobia using switch wire imagery in a five-year-old girl. Pediatric Anesthesia, 17(8), 800-804. This paper contains a case study of a 5-year-old boy who learned to use hypnosis to cope with a severe ...
Hypnotherapy and the management of chronic pain
Oct 01, 2007; ... Elkins, G, Jensen, M., & Patterson, D. (2007). Hypnotherapy and the management of chronic pain. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. The authors provide a very good review of the extant literature on using hypnosis to treat patients with chronic pain ...
The efficacy of hypnotherapy in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders: Meta-Analytical evidence
Oct 01, 2007; ... Flammer, E. (2007). The efficacy of hypnotherapy in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders: Meta-Analytical evidence. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosk, 55(3), 147-166. This paper contains an important meta-analysis on the efficacy of using hypnosis to treat patients ...
Cortex functional connectivity as a neurophysiological correlate of hypnosis: A EEG case study
Oct 01, 2007; ... Fingelkurts, A. A., Fingerlkurts, A. A., Kallio, S., & Ravonsuo, A. (2007). Cortex functional connectivity as a neurophysiological correlate of hypnosis: AEEG case study. Neuropsychologia, 45(7), 1452-1462. The authors present an interesting case study of some remarkable ...
Hypnosis for acute distress management during medical procedures
Oct 01, 2007; ... Flory, N., Martinez-Salazar, G.M., Lang, E.V. (2007). Hypnosis for acute distress management during medical procedures. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. This article contains a nice summary and critical review of the uses of hypnosis to assist patients ...
Evidence-based hypnotherapy for the management of sleep disorders
Oct 01, 2007; ... Graci, G, & Hardie, J. C. (2007). Evidence-based hypnotherapy for the management of sleep disorders. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. The authors discuss the potential uses of hypnosis for helping patients with sleep disorders such as primary ...
The effect of the hypnotic-suggestive communication level of advertisements on their effectiveness
Oct 01, 2007; ... Kaplan, O. (2007). The effect of the hypnotic-suggestive communication level of advertisements on their effectiveness. Contemporary Hypnosis, 24(2), 53-63. The author presents a new instrument for measuring the hypnotic-suggestive communication level of advertisements. The author had ...
Effectiveness of hypnotherapy with cancer patient's treatment trajectory: Emesis, acute pain, analgesia, and anxiolysis in procedures
Oct 01, 2007; ... Neron, S., & Stephenson, R. (2007). Effectiveness of hypnotherapy with cancer patient's treatment trajectory: Emesis, acute pain, analgesia, and anxiolysis in procedures. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(3), 147-166. This paper reviews the literature on using ...