Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
Hypnosis for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been studied extensively. A 1984 study in England showed significant benefits from hypnosis. Thirty patients with refractory IBS and severe symptoms were randomly assigned to 7 individual sessions of hypnotherapy or psychotherapy plus placebo pills. Although the psychotherapy group showed a small but significant improvement in some characteristics,…
A study published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings * had this to say about the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to chemotherapy treatment of cancers: “Chemotherapy often is associated with nausea and vomiting. Hypnosis has been studied for reducing these and other adverse effects. Children receiving chemotherapy who were assigned randomly to hypnosis had less anticipatory nausea…
“Janet entered the hypnotherapy program at 195 pounds, weighed 142 pounds at a 6-month follow-up, 131 pounds after one year, and 130 pounds after 3 years. At the time of treatment she was 46 years old, a registered nurse, married with two grown children, had a family income of $65,000 per year, and reported childhood…
Hair pulling, (Trichotillomania), is the most common cause of hair loss in children. First described in 1889, trichotillomania results in alopecia or hair loss, caused by the repeated pulling of one’s hair from, most often the head, followed by the eyelashes and eye brows. But the hair of any part of the body may be pulled and…
It has long been know and well understood that our emotion; what’s going on in our lives can affect our skin, for better and for worse, but especially for worse. A one dermatologist put it when diagnosing a patient the skin on whose hands was splitting, “The skin weeps for a troubled soul”. This person was in…
I saw a billboard a few days ago with a picture of Christopher Reeve on it. The caption simply read, “Super man.” People might have remembered him for his timeless portrayal of Superman. But they will never forget his tireless crusade on behalf of disabled everywhere. The tragic horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed also…
A meta-analysis* was performed on 18 studies in which a cognitive-behavioural therapy was compared with the same therapy supplemented by hypnosis. The results indicated that the addition of hypnosis substantially enhanced treatment outcome, so that the average client receiving cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy showed greater improvement than at least 70% of clients receiving non-hypnotic treatment. Effects seemed particularly pronounced for treatments…
An study reported in Science Daily demonstrated significant results with using hypnotherapy to assist with quitting smoking. “Hospitalized patients who smoke may be more likely to quit smoking through the use of hypnotherapy than patients using other smoking cessation methods. A new study shows that smoking patients who participated in one hypnotherapy session were more…