Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosis (original) (raw)

Disseminating hypnosis to health care settings: Applying the RE-AIM framework

Psychology of consciousness (American Psychological Association), 2014

Hypnosis is a brief intervention ready for wider dissemination in medical contexts. Overall, hypnosis remains underused despite evidence supporting its beneficial clinical impact. This review will evaluate the evidence supporting hypnosis for dissemination using guidelines formulated by Glasgow and colleagues (1999). Five dissemination dimensions will be considered: Reach, Efficacy, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM). In medical settings, hypnosis is capable of helping a diverse range of individuals with a wide variety of problems. There is evidence supporting the use of hypnosis for chronic pain, acute pain and emotional distress arising from medical procedures and conditions, cancer treatment-related side-effects and irritable bowel syndrome. Although hypnosis is currently not a part of mainstream clinical practices, evidence suggests that patients and healthcare providers are open to trying hypnosis, and may become more so when educated about what hypnosis can do....

Boland & Wark Health Care Applications of Hypnosis Vol

The book summarizes selected applications of clinical hypnosis for medical treatment. It is not a training manual, since professional hypnosis training is offered by the recognized national and international hypnosis organizations listed in APPENDIX 2. Hypnosis, properly understood, is not a treatment in itself, but rather a powerful reinforcement to a wide range of health care interventions. The two volume publishing project is designed to achieve recognition and acceptance of clinical hypnosis by major international health organisations. At the basic level, hypnosis interventions can be used safely by trained primary health care workers, nurses and doctors. To that end, this Volume 2 contains thirteen chapters on the clinical applications of hypnosis. It serves to remind clinicians, who have some knowledge of hypnosis, how to use general processes and specific techniques to augment their primary medical training. The appendices include: a brief glossary of hypnosis, contact with international and national hypnosis societies, an outline of the Olness-Team hypnosis training program for developing countries, some quiz to reinforce the learning, and finally email contacts for the contributors for further study. Volume 1 in the series covers selected Evidence Based Medicine (EMB) applications, with eleven chapters on: hypnosis concepts, testing, acute pain, chronic pain, childhood, PTSD, surgery, childbirth, sleeping, depression, stress & anxiety. Clinical hypnosis has been legally accepted by almost every medical authority worldwide. With hypnosis, each patient is encouraged to become an active part of his or her health care, team. Thus hypnosis could become recognized as highly cost-effective for both preventive and curative health care. Volume Two is an introduction, not designed to be a stand-alone training manual for beginners. A recent comprehensive textbook of hypnosis is available (Barabasz, A. & Watkins, J. G. (2005) Hypnotherapeutic Techniques, 2E. New York and London: Brunner/Routledge-Taylor and Francis (ISBN 0-415-93581-4). The key objective of this project is to begin to make hypnosis concepts available (by book or free download) and thus to motivate basic clinical hypnosis training for every doctor, nurse, medical and nursing student, internationally in both developed and developing countries. The project was inspired by the encouragement and support of Professor William C. Wester II of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Current Practices, Experiences, and Views in Clinical Hypnosis: Findings of an International Survey

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

An online survey of 691 clinicians who use hypnosis was conducted in 31 countries to gain a broad real-world picture of current practices, views, and experiences in clinical hypnosis. Among 24 common clinical uses, stress reduction, wellbeing and self-esteem-enhancement, surgery preparations, anxiety interventions, mindfulness facilitation, and labor and childbirth applications were the most frequently rated as highly effective (each by >70% of raters) in the clinicians' own experience. Adverse hypnosis-associated effects had been encountered by 55% of clinicians but were generally short-lived and very rarely judged as serious. The most common hypnosis approaches used were Ericksonian style (71%), hypnotic relaxation therapy (55%), and traditional hypnosis (50%). Almost all respondents reported regularly using other therapeutic modalities alongside hypnosis. Among a range of client variables potentially affecting therapy, most clinicians rated hypnotist-client rapport (88%) and client motivation (75%) as very or extremely important factors for successful hypnotherapy. The majority of respondents had conducted hypnosis treatment via teletherapy, and 54% of those estimated it to be as effective as in-person treatment.

Teaching Hypnosis to Medical Students: A Naturalistic Approach

Journal of Psychiatric Education, 1984

Hypnosis offers a model of the importance of physician-patient interaction in health and illness. Hypnosis tends to be viewed as a “technique” and can highlight the power of therapeutic communication to biomedical physicians. This paper presents a six-hour workshop format through which medical students and house staff can acquire the rudiments of clinical hypnosis. Psychiatry can render a useful service to primary care medicine by making provisions for training in hypnosis in core psychiatric education.

Review of the international hypnosis literature

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2019

This study presents the results of an experiment attempting to use a combination of coaching and training in hypnosis to help older adults with diabetes mellitus. Seventy-six older adults with diabetes mellitus were identified and given a 4-week period of training using a coaching approach paired with hypnosis to help clients try and modify their lifestyle to lower their blood glucose levels. The patients' blood glucose levels were measured at baseline and shortly after the 4-week trial period. They were compared to a control group that received the same standard of care but no coaching or hypnosis training. The patients in the coaching and hypnosis group were reported to have lowered their blood glucose levels significantly compared with patients in the control group. The authors concluded that coaching and hypnosis training can be used to help patients with diabetes mellitus control their blood sugar levels and argued that this approach may be useful for other medical conditions where lifestyle changes are an important part of managing the disease.