| home |
| your issue |
| client results |
| about hypnosis |
| about me |
| contact |
|
 |
…that [hypnotic] suggestion will be planted in a deep level
in his mind …helping him tap into some useful
physical and psychological resources.”
Carol Ginandes, Phd
clinical psychiatry instructor
-Harvard Magazine, 11/03
“When you're overweight, there is a conflict between the
conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind says, "I
know I want to lose weight,' " he said. However, the subconscious mind
tosses up roadblocks such as emotional eating. Hypnosis can
help get the two parts of the mind together.”
Philip Shenefelt,
associate professor of medicine at the University of South Florida
-Tampa Tribune, 8/04
“Researchers at Harvard University have found it diminishes
the need for anesthesia during invasive procedures such as
angioplasty and breast reconstruction and speeds post-operative
healing.”
-Business Week, 2/04
“…hypnosis is increasingly being used to help
with everything from quitting smoking to recalling lost memories.”
Sam Donaldson
-Primetime Live, 12/95
“…clients who learned self-hypnosis lost
twice as much weight as those who didn't.”
[description of average result of 18 studies done in the mid-nineties]
-Oprah Magazine, 8/04
“A dozen studies have found that self-hypnosis
effectively reduces migraine attacks in children and
adolescents.”
-Consumer Reports,
2/93
“[Hypnosis] can help relieve symptoms, reduce pain and even
sometimes speed healing. It's also been effective in changing
unhealthy behavior.”
-National Women's
Health Resource Center, 11/03
“…hypnosis is effective in alleviating
chronic pain
associated with various cancers. Hypnosis can also be a part of the
treatment program for irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory conditions
of the mouth, temporomandibular disorders, and tension headaches, the
panel concluded.”
-National Institute
of Health, 10/95
“Hypnosis, once scorned as wizardry more appropriate for the
stage than a doctor's office, has gained respect among medical
professionals. Many view it as an efficient tool for treating
problems not caused by serious disorders.”
-Business Week, 2/91
“The word hypnosis comes from the Greek word for
sleep,”
says Dr. Hoover. “But actually, you are not asleep, you are
focused and have more self-control. Researchers have done EEGs of
persons in trances that showed their brains were highly alert
and focused.”
Dr. L. Dean Hoover
psychiatrist
-The Capital (Annapolis, MD), 4/04
“Hypnosis has moved out of magic shows and into operating
rooms.
Some bold surgeons are using hypnotic suggestion rather than
conventional anesthesia, while other doctors contend it can
alleviate anxiety, staunch bleeding, hasten healing and even
clear up rashes and warts.”
-Newsweek 11/86
“…in the past few decades the phenomenon has
enjoyed an
increasing amount of scientific interest, as well as widespread
clinical application for an array of medical and
psychological purposes, from removing warts to retrieving
memories long buried in the unconscious.”
-Psychology Today,
1/02
“Six weeks after the fracture, the hypnosis group healed to
an
extent that would normally take 8 ½ weeks.”
-Harvard Magazine,
11/03
“Both hypnosis groups lost an average of 17 pounds
in six months. The control group put on half a pound.”
-Hypnotherapy in
weight loss treatment:
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1986
“…one-way analyses showed the hypnosis
group to be significantly more healed than the usual care controls.
Results of this preliminary trial indicate that use of a targeted
hypnotic intervention can accelerate postoperative wound healing and
suggest that further tests of using hypnosis to augment physical
healing are warranted.”
-“Can
medical hypnosis
accelerate post-surgical wound healing?” Results of a
clinical
trial, Department of Psychology, Harvard Medical School, McLean
Hospital, 4/03
“In a study of 241 patients, who underwent operations to open
clogged arteries, it was found that people who were
hypnotized fared better and used less pain
medication.”
-Boston Herald,
4/2000
“Hypnosis. What comes to mind when you hear the word? A caped
magician swaying a pocket watch before his subject's eyes? Someone
barking like a dog? What should come to mind is this: A smoker chucking
the cigarettes forever; a dieter finally losing
those persistent pounds; a woman giving birth without drugs
or severe pain. Welcome to the real world of hypnosis.”
-The Capital
(Annapolis, MD), 4/04
“A hypnotist can't make you do anything you don't really want
to do. There's nothing spooky about it.”
-Business Week, 2/9
“Hypnosis and guided imagery have no adverse side
effects”
-Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, 8/04
“People who were hypnotized while undergoing surgery without
a general anesthetic needed less pain medication, left the
operating room sooner and had more stable vital signs than
those who were not, according to a study in this week's issue of The
Lancet medical journal.”
-Associated Press,
4/04
“Studies reported in 1986 in the Journal of Clinical
Psychology
and the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology showed hypnosis
to be an effective tool in losing weight and keeping it off.”
-Cox News Service,
1/02
“Today, hypnosis--or hypnotherapy--is becoming a
respected alternative for an array of conditions.
It has long been used to help people quit smoking and overcome fears,
such as the fear of public speaking, but now the practice is branching
out into new areas.”
-Better Homes and
Gardens, 2/04
“… cutting-edge research has revealed that
subjects under hypnosis perceive colors differently. You can
see it on brain scans. And there are lots of new uses.”
Diane Sawyer
-Good Morning America, 6/02
“We believe that passengers will be entranced with this new
service.” Virgin chairman Richard Branson on Virgin
Airlines' new in-flight hypnosis offering
Press release
-Virgin Atlantic, 4/04
“As a relaxation technique, hypnosis can help
reduce your stress.
It's also used to relieve phobias, lessen anxiety, break addictions and
to ease symptoms of conditions such as asthma or allergy. Using
hypnosis can help patients control nausea and vomiting from cancer
medications and morning sickness, reduce bleeding during surgery,
steady the heartbeat and bring down blood pressure.”
-National Women's
Health Resource Center, 11/03
“Imagine that when you eat, you feel satisfied
sooner and therefore lose weight more rapidly.
Imagine that the pain after heart-bypass or dental surgery feels merely
like mild pressure. Imagine that your skin rash is clearing up. Recent clinical
studies suggest that hypnosis…can indeed help
motivated people accomplish those health goals.”
-Consumer Reports on
Health, 2/04
“Many patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome, a
painful
disorder that does not generally respond well to conventional
treatments, have found relief through hypnotherapy.
Now British researchers say the benefits can last five years or
longer.”
-The New York Times,
10/03
“Unfortunately, stage hypnosis is real hypnosis. It creates
the
illusion that there is a loss of control, which is not true. All of the
people who are being hypnotized on stage are wide-awake. They know
exactly what they are doing. But it's usually done in poor taste, and
it really scares people.”
-Boston Globe 2/02,
quoting Ted Benton of Winchester Hospital's Community Health Institute
in Woburn
“Practitioners note that hypnotherapy works only
for patients who are committed to the goals.”
-Boston Globe, 2/02
“…In a study of 241 patients, who underwent
operations to open clogged arteries, it was found that people
who were hypnotized fared better and used less pain
medication.”
-Boston Herald,
4/2000
“But science now knows the reality of hypnosis, where the
subject
temporarily suspends his normal way of looking at the world, not
in a trance-like sleep, but rather extreme concentration.”
Diane Sawyer
-Good Morning America, 6/02
“Now a new study in the current issue of the American Journal
of Psychiatry offers evidence that hypnotized individuals do,
indeed, experience distinct changes in brain function that
mere role-playing would not account for.”
-All Things
Considered, NPR 8/2000
Why does it work? “Because the
patients are in an altered state, solely focused on the
message, soaking it up, rather than in a psychological mode
in which they can trivialize or ignore it,”
Dr. David Spiegel,
psychiatry professor and medical director of the Complementary Medicine
Clinic at Stanford University
-Washingtonian, 3/02
|
 |
