Further Information- Clinical Hypnosis
& Brief Therapy
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The BST Foundation's Clinical Hypnosis Course has been acknowledged as a favorable prior learning credit by a number of eminent universities for various psychology and aligned degree programmes.
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Research News 2007
The positive use
of hypnosis in the treatment of breast cancer. Please
click to read hypnosis
and breast cancer article- Published
in the Daily Telegraph
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As of December, 2004 there are more than 5,000 clinical
research
studies having to do with hypnosis and its benefits currently
being
conducted worldwide? (According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
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As of December 15, 2004 results from more than 3,000 clinical
research studies are available showing positive benefits
from hypnosis?
(According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)
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According to studies done at the Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience,
University College London, suggestions given in a hypnotic
state, even once,
can produce actions in human beings that are the same
type of actions that
would have resulted from more long-term conditioning and
practice.
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In a research study on Self-hypnosis for relapse prevention
training with chronic drug/alcohol users, (Am J Clin Hypn.
2004 Apr;46(4):281-97), individuals who played self-hypnosis
audiotapes "at least 3 to 5 times a week," at 7-week follow-up,
reported the highest levels of self-esteem and serenity,
and the least anger/impulsivity, in comparison to the
minimal-practice and control groups.
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In a research study done with 60 college student volunteers
(Spring of 2004 at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
Arizona), using hypnosis with ego-enhancement suggestions
showed "significantly dramatic effects" in brain-wave
patterns, subjective sense of self-confidence, and test
scores.
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Research using positron emission tomography (PET) scans,
shows that hypnosis might alleviate pain by decreasing
the activity of brain areas involved in the experience
of suffering. Scientists have found that hypnosis reduced
the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, an area
known to be involved in pain, but did not affect the activity
of the somatosensory cortex, where the sensations of pain
are processed.
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Clinical trials of therapeutic hypnosis confirm its potential
benefits. Christina Liossi, a psychologist at the University
of Wales in Swansea, recently conducted a study of 80
cancer patients aged 6 to 16. She found that those under
hypnosis experienced far less pain during treatments than
control children, who simply talked to the researchers
normally.
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According to published results of clinical studies (Am
J Clin Hypn. 2004 Apr), the use of hypnosis facilitates
a more uncomplicated birth process. In a separate research
study done by University of Florida counseling psychologist
Paul Schauble, it was also found that women who learn
hypnosis before delivering babies suffer fewer complications,
need less medication and are more likely to have healthier
babies than are women without hypnosis. Schauble's first
study involved adolescents getting prenatal care at a
public health clinic. A group of 20 patients who received
hypnosis preparation were compared with 20 who were given
supportive counseling and 20 patients in a control group
who received only the standard prenatal care. None of
the women who received hypnosis required surgical intervention
in their deliveries, compared with 12 in the supportive
counseling group and eight in the control group, he said.
"Patients who are prepared for labor and delivery in hypnosis
are more likely to absorb and benefit from information
because they are in a relaxed, highly focused state,"
he said.
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In an ongoing pilot study being done by University of
Florida counseling psychologist Paul Schauble, preliminary
results show hypnotized patients with hypertension are
more easily able to make lifestyle improvements that can
lower blood pressure.
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A study being done by a team of University of Florida
researchers is finding that learning self-hypnosis gives
a patient greater control over the stress, anxiety and
pain of medical operations and childbirth, overall. "Training
patients in hypnosis prior to undergoing surgery is a
way of helping them develop a sense of control over their
stress, discomfort and anxiety," says Dr. Paul Schauble,
psychologist. "It also helps them better understand what
they can do to bring about a more satisfying and rapid
recovery." He also said, "We've found, in working with
individual patients, that they often feel literally stripped
of control when they go into the hospital. The surgeon
may do a good job of explaining the surgery, but patients'
anxiety may make it difficult for them to absorb or comprehend.
This can result in undue apprehension that can create
complications or prolonged recovery."
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"Children make excellent subjects for hypnosis because
they spend more time using their
imaginations," says Florida counseling psychologist Paul
Schauble. "But with practice most adults can learn how
to enter into a therapeutic hypnotic state quite easily
as well."
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In 1998 Henry Szechtman of McMaster University in Ontario
and his co-workers used PET to image the brain activity
of hypnotized subjects who were invited to imagine a scenario
in which they were listening to someone speaking to them,
and who then actually experienced a scenario in which
they were listening to someone speaking to them. The researchers
noted that the act of imagining a sound, called hallucinating
a sound, was experienced exactly the same as real hearing,
both being experienced as coming from an external source.
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18 separate studies found that patients who received cognitive
behavioral therapy plus hypnosis for disorders such as
obesity,
insomnia, anxiety and hypertension showed greater improvement
than 70 percent of the patients who received psychotherapy
alone.
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