Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit. Willpower, it turns out, counts for very little. Smokers are coming under increasing pressure to quit. Earlier this month the Institute of Actuaries published the results of a study it Read more…
Twelve mental health bodies have written an open letter urging ministers they ‘cannot go on’ with so many patients ‘locked out’ of vital services. Leading charities have urged the UK government to urgently address the ‘crisis’ facing mental health services in the forthcoming Budget. (source: The Independent) Hypnotherapy is a fast, safe and drug-free aid Read more…
More patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) reported relief of pain and discomfort after hypnotherapy than after education and supportive care, interim results from a randomized controlled trial conducted at 13 centres indicate. Most evidence supporting hypnotherapy for IBS in the literature involves highly specialized therapists at secondary and tertiary Read more…
HANDS up who likes going to the dentist? Actually there are some people who do but the majority of people find it challenging, with about 20 per cent of adults suffering from a full-on dental phobia. Dental phobias stem from a variety of sources like bad experiences in the past, Read more…
It sounds like the work of sorcerers and scam artists, but hypnosis can play a very real role in protecting and promoting health. This isn’t the “You are getting very sleepy…” hypnosis you’re used to seeing in pop culture references, but a clinical procedure used in conjunction with other therapies and Read more…
By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis. Your eyelids are getting heavy, your arms are going limp and you feel like you’re floating through space. The power of hypnosis to alter Read more…
Hypnotherapy has struggled for scientific acceptance ever since Franz Mesmer claimed in the 18th century that he could cure all manner of ills with what he termed “animal magnetism”. “The whole field is plagued by people who don’t feel research is necessary,” says Peter Whorwell of the University of Manchester Read more…
You are feeling sleepy…or are you? In a hypnotism performance, ordinary people seem to somehow become puppets, made to talk in silly accents, or act like a baby or in other embarrassing ways. But have they really lost command of their bodies, or are they just pretending? Now we have Read more…
Those brilliant doctors and researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered the answer – New research from Stanford reveals the neural changes associated with hypnosis, and how these changes affect people in the state of hypnosis. Dr David Spiegel, associate chair of psychiatry at the Stanford University School Read more…