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Article: Evidence-based hypnotherapy for the management of sleep disorders
- Article from:
- American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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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 insomnia. The paper focuses on educating the reader about the common types of sleep disorders that clinicians encounter and on providing a rationale for why hypnosis combined with cognitive behavior therapy may be able to demonstrate efficacy in reducing the clinical symptoms of sleep disturbance. The authors note that there has been very little acceptable research into the uses of hypnosis with sleep ...