Psychologists, doctors, dentists, researchers, and other professionals use hypnosis every day. It is a useful clinical tool, and can help us to understand how the mind works. Sadly, despite all of the great research evidence, the internet is full of misinformation about hypnosis. This site presents the science behind hypnosis and suggestion: everything you need to know about hypnosis.
Much of the site has also been translated into French. If you would like to help by translating it into other languages please get in touch.
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 Professor Mark Jensen has written an excellent book detailing hypnotic strategies for working with chronic pain patients. Hypnosis for chronic pain management: therapist guide explores research on hypnosis for pain. It also provides helpful inductions and suggestions for working with patients in pain. There is a patient workbook which complements the therapist guide.
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 A study has just been published in the high-profile open-access journal PLOS1 purporting to show evidence for a hypnotic state. In it, Sakari Kallio and his colleagues present eye-gaze evidence from a single highly hypnotisable individual which they claim supports the idea of there being a measurable and identifiable hypnotic state.
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 An interesting article has just been published in Contemporary Hypnosis and Integrative Therapy (disclaimer: I'm one of the authors). It tackles one of the logical inconsistencies in how we refer to the hypnotic ability of an individual.
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 The Canadian Federation of Clinical Hypnosis has just launched a new journal: The Journal of Mind Body Regulation. Professor Amir Raz of the McGill University in Montreal is the editor, and the content so far looks exciting. The journal is online, saving significant costs associated with printing. It is also open-access, meaning that anyone can read the latest science.
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 There is an interesting article in the New York Times about using hypnosis to manage illness. "KIRSTEN RITCHIE, 44, is no stranger to surgery — nearly 20 years ago, doctors removed four tumors from her brain. She remembers the operation and its aftermath as “horrific.” So the news that she needed brain surgery again was hardly welcome. Determined to make her second operation a better — or at least less traumatic — experience, Ms. Ritchie, an insurance marketing representative in Cleveland, turned to an unusual treatment.
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