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How are you progressing with your New Year’s resolutions? According to a survey conducted by health insurance company Bupa in 2015, 66% of you will have thrown in the towel…
Having a child is one of the most life changing things you will ever do, and with major life changes invariably comes stress. Chronic, unmanaged stress levels can significantly impact…
Reflections on the recent special issue of IJCEH dealing with hypnotherapy for clinical depression, and attempts to create hybrid hypnotherapy approaches combined with modern evidence-based psychotherapies for depression.
Gil Boyne died on 5th May 2010 at his home in London, after a brief illness. Having been admitted to hospital and been given a diagnosis a week previously, he…
The August Research Snippet reviews arguably the most important recent journal articles reviewing the cognitive psychology of mindfulness meditation and its relevance for hypnotherapy.
This is a short article published in the Autumn 2009 edition of the NCH’s publication The Hypnotherapy Journal. It outlines proposed improvements to the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (HPD) award. Comments are invited from any interested parties, especially NCH members and accredited training schools.
Hypnotherapy can help You might have noticed after the excesses of Christmas that you developed a bad case of heartburn. Left unchecked heartburn can progress and become acid reflux or…
Most of us are frightened of something. Around 2.4% of adults in the United Kingdom have a medically diagnosable phobia, according to a recent NHS survey, that’s around 1.3 million…
This snippet discusses a recent experimental study which attempted to quantify (as a percentage) the extent to which expectation contributed to the pain-reducing effects of hypnosis, imagination, and a placebo medication. Strong evidence was derived from statistical analysis suggesting that the effect of hypnotism is “partially-mediated” by expectation, albeit to a lesser degree than the placebo effect.
Important: The 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the NCH will take place at the Royal Society of Medicine at 2pm on Saturday 2nd October 2010. You can notify NCH online whether you wish to vote in person or appoint a proxy to vote on your behalf.
Christmas research snippet about a recent review of evidence-based practice in relation to hypnosis for childbirth and related issues, focusing on pain management in childbirth, etc.
A recent series of articles compared the influential “sociocognitive” and “response expectancy” theories of hypnosis with Alfred Barrios’ “conditioning and inhibition” theory, which reprises elements of Pavlov’s theory of hypnotic suggestion. This snippet outlines the opposing theories and research findings cited in favour of the sociocognitive position.
Insomnia is thought to affect one in 3 people in the UK, with sufferers finding it difficult to get to sleep, having interrupted sleep, waking early, and having difficulty concentrating…
Around 30% of the UK live with daily, chronic pain, that’s around 28 million people according to research carried out in 2016. For most of these sufferers, opiates are offered as…
This article summarises the research studies on hypnotherapy identified in a recent review as meeting the criteria for empirically-supported treatments (ESTs).