Hypnosis for Obesity
Hypnosis can help you understand unconscious barriers to weight loss and enhance your chances of success via a variety of types of positive suggestion
Category: Eating Disorders
The Role of Clinical Hypnosis in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Hypnotizability in eating disordered populations can be viewed as a personality trait as well as ability. In addition to hypnotic performance, in the literature hypnotizability correlates with eating disorders. In eating disordered populations, bulimics are significantly more hypnotizable than anorexics; anorexics of the purging subtype generally are more hypnotizable than restricting anorexics. In one study,…
Hypnotherapy and Bulimia
In an age when young people, especially girls and young women, are subjected to pressure from many directions to conform to a stereotypical – usually unnaturally thin – image, it’s not surprising that eating disorders are on the rise. In an article titled, ‘Can Hypnosis End Bulimia?’ published in the Magazine for Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Bryan M Knight MSW Phd, says,…