Winner of the prestigious I.M.D.H.A Pen and Quill Award for 2011 This book will change your mind, your practice and your clients. Melissa Tiers has mastered the art of making the complicated simple, the magical practical and learning delightful. Drawing directly from her dynamic live teaching sessions, A Comprehensive Course in Change takes you on an inspirational and practical journey through the most powerful change techniques, combining: Classical and Ericksonian hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Cognitive, Behavioral and Energy Psychology. The latest research in neuroscience, mind/body medicine and unconscious processing is integrated to guide you and your clients through real life changes on multiple levels. Containing demonstrations, metaphors and hypnotic language patterns, this single, simple, easy-to-follow book brings to life Melissa's exciting and infectious teaching approach. A must read for anyone in the fields of mental health, hypnosis, coaching, and alternative healing.
Many health care professionals and complementary therapists use hypnotherapy as part of their package of care. Integrative Hypnotherapy provides fully evidence-based instruction on how to integrate the theory and practice of hypnotherapy into a range of clinical settings. It presents a combined approach of using hypnotherapy alongside other therapies, and is authored by a multidisciplinary team (nurses, psychologists, hypnotherapists and CAM therapists) who use hypnotherapy in their practice and is edited by well-known and popular educators in the field. The book is divided into two sections: key concepts and approaches in practice. The second section covers the application of hypnotherapy to specific situations/problems, eg managing pain, smoking cessation, gastro-intestinal disorders, life-threatening illness, anxiety, and weight management. Students and practitioners will be taken on a journey of examination, critical review and debate prior to reaching recommendations for best practice. KEY FEATURES • Relates hypnotherapy theory and practice to health care settings • Provides research evidence to support and develop practice • Presents combined approach of using hypnotherapy with other CAM therapies • Provides practical clinical models and case studies to allow easy application of theory to practice.
Research over the past decade has helped to demystify hypnosis and meditation, bringing these practices into the scientific and clinical mainstream. Yet, while hypnosis and meditation overlap on many levels, few scientific accounts have explored their complementary rapprochement. Despite cultural and historical differences, hypnosis and meditation share common phenomenology, cognitive processes, and potential therapeutic merits. This book provides a synthesis of knowledge concerning the bridging of hypnosis and meditation. The authors adopt a trans-disciplinary approach considering cultural, historical, and philosophical perspectives to elucidate contemporary questions in cognitive, neurobiological, and clinical science. The book explores the relationship between hypnosis and meditation in five progressive sections: Part 1 investigates historical, cultural, and philosophical issues to contextualize the scientific study of contemplative practices. Part 2 presents a range of views concerning the similarities and differences between hypnosis and meditation. Part 3 explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms at work. Part 4 integrates recent brain imaging findings to unravel the neural underpinnings. Finally, part 5 examines how juxtaposing hypnosis and meditation can enhance clinical applications. Hypnosis and Meditation is a valuable resource to both specialists as well as interested lay readers, and paves the road to a more unified science of how attention influences states of brain, body, and consciousness.
2017 Recipient of the Pen & Quill Award, International Medical and Dental Hypnosis Association! From two award winning and best-selling authors comes a book destined to be the definitive guide to helping kids change. Integrative Hypnosis for Kids and Teens is a treasure trove of information, insights and creative approaches to helping kids change a wide variety of issues. Drawing on years of experience in helping children overcome challenges, Melissa and Kelley offer a wide range of effective and easy-to-apply solutions based on the latest research in neuroscience, embodied cognition and mind-body medicine. You'll learn how to empower kids to rewire their brains and take control of their emotions, habits, and futures...all while having fun! This book covers a wide range of interventions, integrating clinical hypnosis, neuro-linguistic psychology, narrative therapy and practical neuroscience. You will learn how to use hypnotic phenomenon and engage kids in therapeutic play to change the whole dynamic of your work, sitting in on actual sessions with kids and teens of all ages that address: Anxiety and Fears * Focus and Concentration * Changing Habits * Pain Control * Sports Performance * Trauma Relief * Co-Creating Therapeutic Metaphors And much more! This book promises to give you everything you need to know to open your practice to the population that needs you the most.
Este livro vai mudar sua mente, sua prática clínica e seus clientes.Melissa Tiers dominou a arte de transformar o complicado em simples, o mágico, prático; e o aprendizado delicioso.Derivado completamente de seu curso ao vivo, Um Curso Completo Sobre Mudança leva você a uma jornada prática e inspiradora, por meio das mais poderosas técnicas de mudança, combinando: Hipnose Clássica e Ericksoniana Programação Neurolinguística Psicologia Cognitiva, Comportamental Psicologia EnergéticaAs últimas pesquisas em Neurociência, Medicina Corpo e Mente, e processamento inconsciente estão integradas para guiar você e seus clientes por meio de mudanças de vida reais em múltiplos níveis.Contendo demonstrações, metáforas e padrões de linguagem hipnóticos, este livro único, simples, e fácil de ler, traz à tona a emocionante e contagiante abordagem de ensino de Melissa.Uma leitura obrigatória para qualquer um nos campos da Saúde Mental, Hipnose, Coaching, e Curas Alternativas.Melissa Tiers é fundadora do The Center for Integrative Hypnosis, com um consultório próprio na cidade de Nova York.
This title combines conventional treatment options with time tested alternative treatment options for skin disorders. By integrating the best of Western and Eastern medicine, it aims to broaden the armamentarium of clinicians treating skin diseases.
A BRIEF TESTIMONY: Within his recent book on integrative medicine certified hypnotherapist Edward J Longo offers to both novice and professional readers a panoramic 220-page overview of the great value of hypnotherapy in dealing with common life problems such as weight loss, depression, panic disorder and emotional stress. This highly readable book moves from the general nature of hypnosis ¿ the subconscious, the autonomic nervous system, trances, DSM-4, etc. ¿ to specific techniques for hypnotherapy scripts, inductions, affirmations, and even how one can become qualified as a certified hypnotherapist. . . . . Above comment by Harold Takooshian, PhD, of Fordham University President (2007), Society for General Psychology, Division One of the American Psychological Association.
Like food and water, sleep is essential for all. In this excellent study aid, the author looks at the nature and purpose of sleeping andrelated disorders, dreamingand hypnosis. This clear and focused introductionprovides a fantasticentry point for studentsseeking a deeper understanding of altered states of awareness.
What is hypnosis? Despite widespread misconceptions, hypnosis is not a treatment in itself; instead, it is a facilitator -- a useful diagnostic tool that can help the practitioner choose an appropriate treatment modality and accelerate various primary treatment strategies. The second edition of this remarkable work (first published 25 years ago) is written to provide both beginning and seasoned practitioners with a brief, disciplined technique for mobilizing and learning from an individual's capacity to concentrate. Putting to rest both exaggerated fears about hypnosis and overblown statements of its efficacy, this compelling volume brings scientific discipline to a systematic exploration of the clinical uses and limitations of hypnosis. The challenge was to develop a clinical measurement that could transform a fascinating amalgam of anecdotes, speculations, clinical intuitions and observations, and laboratory advances into a more fruitful and systematic body of information. Thus was born the authors' Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP), a crucial 10-minute clinical assessment procedure that relates the spectrum of hypnotizability to personality style, psychopathology, and treatment outcome. Structured to reflect the flow of a typical evaluation and treatment session and highlighted by case examples throughout, this remarkable synthesis describes how to use the HIP, reviews relevant literature, and details principles and short- and long-term treatment strategies for smoking control; eating disorders; anxiety, concentration, and insomnia; phobias; pain control; psychosomatic disorders and conversion symptoms; trichotillomania; stuttering; and acute and posttraumatic stress disorders and dissociation. Meticulously referenced and indexed, this in-depth work concludes with an appendix on the interpretation and standardization of the HIP.This unique work stands out in the literature because It is written both as an introduction for practitioners new to hypnosis and as an in-depth guide for practitioners with wide experience in hypnosis. Unlike current clinical works, it emphasizes the importance of performing a systematic assessment of hypnotizability to identify, measure, and utilize a given patient's optimal therapeutic potential -- a process that, until now, has been relegated to clinical intuition. It describes human behavior phenomenologically as it relates to hypnosis in a probable rather than an absolute fashion. It reviews only specific portions of the literature that are particularly relevant to the important themes presented by the authors. Wherever possible, the authors apply statistical methods to test their hypotheses. The realm of scientific investigation encompassing hypnosis and psychological dysfunction is comparatively new. This exceptional volume, with its profusion of systematic data, will spark controversy and interest among scientific students of hypnosis everywhere, from psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to physicians, dentists, and other interested clinicians.
Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders applies a systematic integrative approach, Cognitive Hypnotherapy (CH), to the psychological treatment of anxiety disorders; it demonstrates how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT is more effective. An evidence-based approach to enhancing CBT with hypnosis and mindfulness when treating anxiety disorders shows how simple techniques can be used to create a therapeutic context within which CBT can become more effective Offers detailed and comprehensive coverage for practitioners, with specific protocols for each anxiety disorders covered and a hort case study per treatment chapter in order to demonstrate the approach in action Anxiety disorders is an area where the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes is especially important, and where the use of hypnotherapeutic and mindfulness techniques can therefore be especially effective Builds on the author’s research and experience and develops his significant earlier work in this area – notably Cognitive Hypnotherapy: An Integrated Approach to the Treatment of Emotional Disorders (Wiley, 2008)
