American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis back issues from October 2008:
Hypnosis for smoking cessation: A randomized trial
Oct 01, 2008; ... Carmody, T. P., Duncan, C, Simon, J. A., Solkowitz, S., Huggins, J., Lee, S., & Delucchi, K. (2008). Hypnosis for smoking cessation: A randomized trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 10(5), 811-818. This is an important new study employing hypnosis in a randomized trial to aid people in ...
Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility
Oct 01, 2008; ... Carvalho, C, Kirsch, L, Mazzoni, G, & Leal, I. (2008). Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 295-305. The authors present Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group ...
Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death
Oct 01, 2008; ... Yalom, I.D., (2008). Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Reviewed by Yvonne B. Bregman, M.A., M.S.W., Ridgefield CT. Gilgamesh's quote, "Sorrow enters my heart. I am afraid of death," is the starting point for Irvin Yalom's most recent book. He ...
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Valencia Scale on attitudes and beliefs toward hypnosis-Therapist version
Oct 01, 2008; ... Capafons, A., Espejo, B., & Mendoza, M.E. (2008). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Valencia Scale on attitudes and beliefs toward hypnosis-Therapist version. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 281-294. This study presents a confirmatory factor analysis of ...
Hypnotherapy in the treatment of chronic combat-related PTSD patients suffering from insomnia: A randomized, zolpidem-controlled clinical trial
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abramowitz, E. G., Barak, Y., Ben-Avi, I., & Knobler, H. Y. (2008). Hypnotherapy in the treatment of chronic combat-related PTSD patients suffering from insomnia: A randomized, zolpidem-controlled clinical trial. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 270-280 ....
Hypnotizability and blink rate: A test of the dopamine hypothesis
Oct 01, 2008; ... Lichtenberg, P., Even-Or, E., Bachner-Melman, R., Levin, R., Brin, A., & HerescoLevy., U. (2008). Hypnotizability and blink rate: A test of the dopamine hypothesis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 243-254. This study investigates the hypothesis that the ...
Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: A role for hypnotherapy?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Miller, V. & Whorwell, P. J. (2008). Treatment of inflammatory bowel disease: A role for hypnotherapy? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 306-317. This is a long-term study of patients using hypnosis to help with their symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease ...
Hypnotherapy in management of pain and reexperiencing of trauma in burn patients
Oct 01, 2008; ... Shakibaei, F., Harandi, A.A., Gholamrezaei, A., Samoei, R., & Salehi, P. (2008). Hypnotherapy in management of pain and reexperiencing of trauma in burn patients. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(2), 185-197. The authors of this study employed hypnosis to help ...
Hypnotic approaches for alopecia areata
Oct 01, 2008; ... Willemsen, R. & Vanderlinden, J. (2008). Hypnotic approaches for alopecia areata. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 318-333. The authors present an initial study of 28 patients using hypnosis to help them with hair loss due to alopecia areata (AA). AA is ...
Mind-body interventions: Applications in neurology
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wahbeh, H., Elsas, S. M., & Oken, B. S. (2008). Mind-body interventions: Applications in neurology. : Neurology, 70(24), 2321-2328. This is a basic review article describing applications of a variety of techniques of mind-body medicine such as hypnosis to medical disorders that neurologists ...
Hypnotizability as a potential risk factor for posttraumatic stress: A review of quantitative studies
Oct 01, 2008; ... Yard, S. S., DuHamel, K. N., & Galynker, 1. 1. (2008). Hypnotizability as a potential risk factor for posttraumatic stress: A review of quantitative studies. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 334-356. The association between high hypnotic ability and ...
Mindworks: An introduction to NLP: The secrets of your mind revealed
Oct 01, 2008; ... Linden, A. & Perutz,K. (2008). Mindworks: An introduction to NLP: The secrets of your mind revealed. Bethel, CT.: Crown House. Reviewed by Gabor Filo, D.D.S., ABHD. Anne Linden has a Master's degree in psychology and has been a practicing therapist for 30 years. She was one of the early ...
Hypnosis as Sole Anesthesia for Major Surgeries: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Hypnosis is a well validated treatment for acute and chronic pain (Montgomery, DuHamel, & Redd, 2000). It has been found capable of reducing inflammation, altering blood flow, and producing beneficial effects when hypnotic suggestions are provided during and prior to surgery ...
A Response to the Commentaries on Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract I respond the various commentaries about my paper entitled, "Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment." I attempt to further clarify the discussion about my original three questions: 1) What is Hypnosis? 2) Who gets Hypnotized? and 3) What can you do with Hypnosis? Comments about ...
Meditation from thought to action
Oct 01, 2008; ... Simpkins, C.A. & Simpkins, A. (2007). Meditation from thought to action. San Diego, CA: Radiant Dolphin Press. Reviewed by Robin A. Chapman, Psy.D, ABPP, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. The relationship between hypnosis and meditation has been studied. Researchers have demonstrated ...
In Memoriam of Dr. Selig Finkelstein (1916 - 2008)
Oct 01, 2008; ... My earliest memories are shaped as the daughter of Dr. Finkelstein - dentist Dad's office was his benevolent kingdom. He was in charge to help people, to kibitz, to listen. If you needed antibiotics for a procedure, he didn't give you a prescription, he gave you a 10-day supply. If a ...
Hemihypnosis, Hypnosis, and the Importance of Knowing Right from Trend
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract The hypnosis community may be buying into a neuroscience fad concerning brain laterality. Accustomed to deflating folkloric claims about hypnosis, researchers and practitioners of hypnosis have come to appreciate the danger of lingering myths and the importance of dispelling ...
Editorial
Oct 01, 2008; ... This is issue number 2 of the 50th anniversary volume of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (AJCH). In the previous issue of AJCH (Vol. 51, No. 1) Dr. Howard Sutcher provided an article titled, "Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment" illustrating two points regarding the use of hypnosis ...
Novel Activity-Dependent Approaches to Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy: The General Waking Trance
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper presents a highly edited version of a videotape made in 1980 by Marion Moore, M.D., showing Milton H. Erickson and Moore demonstrating novel, activity-dependent approaches to hand-levitation and therapeutic hypnosis on their subject, Ernest Rossi. Erickson's ...
The dissociative mind
Oct 01, 2008; ... Howell, E.F. (2005). The dissociative mind. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. Reviewed by Charles E. Burbridge, Ph.D., ABPH, Poughkeepsie, NY. Dissociation is an especially focal topic today: post- Viet Nam, 9/11, and Iraq, and at least a decade into the age of brief mental ...
A guide to psychological debriefing: Managing emotional decompression and posttraumatic stress disorder
Oct 01, 2008; ... Kinchin, D. (2007). A guide to psychological debriefing: Managing emotional decompression and posttraumatic stress disorder. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Reviewed by Frank E. Gantz, Psy. D., ABPP, W.G. Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, NC. Trauma, its manifestations and treatment are ...
To Assess or Not Assess Hypnotic Suggestibility? That is the Question/Commentary/Commentary on "Hypnosis, Hypnotizability, and Treatment/Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment/Commentary
Oct 01, 2008; ... Steven Jay Lynn, Elza Boycheva, & Sean Barnes State University of New York at Binghamton To assess or not assess hypnotic suggestibility? That is the question. Dr. Howard Sutcher (2008) reports four cases in which the patients he treated profited from treatment yet "differed ...