Assen Alladin, Clinical Psychologist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Foothills Medical Centre and Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Calgary Medical School, President of the Canadian Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Alberta Division, Canada Forewords by Claire Frederick and Michael Heap , respectively Past Editor American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Distinguished Consulting Faculty, Saybrook Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, USA; Clinical/Forensic Psychologist, Wathwood Hospital, Rotherham, UK Description Hypnotherapy provides a powerful tool for utilizing the power of the mind to reduce distress and suffering. This concise guide provides readers with a rich source of ideas on starting hypnotherapy practice, and thinking seriously about hypnosis as a powerful adjunct to psychotherapy and medical interventions. With a clear definition of what hypnosis really is, readers can develop an understanding of the rationale for utilising hypnotherapy with particular disorders. As the medical community is progressively adopting a biopsychosocial model of healing, there is a serious move toward validating the scientific credibility of hypnosis, and hypnotherapy has become a well-established treatment. Unlike other introductory texts, Hypnotherapy Explained adopts a uniquely scientific approach, reviewing theories and offering practical ways to integrate hypnotherapy in medical, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice. It is enlightening reading for general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors and other healthcare professionals. ‘Dr Alladin's formula is to provide up-to-date knowledge of each condition to be treated, a model of hypnosis that is supported by modern research finding, and a sound rationale for how the latter may be applied to the former for the benefit of the patient. Hypnotherapy Explained is a disciplined, well-researched and up-to-date account of how hypnosis can be effectively applied to ease human distress.’ Michael Heap, in his Foreword ‘Destined to be a classic. Distinctive. Stringently scientific, and exceedingly well-referenced. Creative and warmly human. Hypnotherapy Explained brings to hypnosis the lenses of science and reason. [It] takes its reader into the relationship of science and hypnosis. It fills a void in hypnosis education as no other book does. It is for the scientifically curious, for the clinician who wants to be able to help patients use their internal resources to a greater extent, and especially for those who wish their patients to be less dependent and more inclined and able to become involved in self-care. Those who know little or nothing about hypnosis could find no better introduction; those who know a great deal will find no better refresher.’ Claire Frederick, in her Foreword Contents * Current theories of hypnosis * Stages of hypnotherapy * Hypnotherapy as an intervention in medicine and psychiatry * Hynotherapy with a medical condition: migraine headache * Hypnotherapy with a psychiatric disorder: depression * Training in hypnotherapy |