Marie Element DipCH MAHA (Fellow) HCA, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Counsellor and EFT Practitioner.
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,…
As we can see below, Hypnotherapy, or hypnosis, is a well researched, safe, side effect free way of treating Bulimia Nervosa. Griffiths treated bulimic patients with 4 weeks of behavioral therapy highlighting self-monitoring to establish healthy eating patterns, followed by 4 weeks of hypnotherapy to enhance self-control of bingeing and vomiting episodes. There was a…
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,…