Tim Brunson DCH

Welcome to The International Hypnosis Research Institute Web site. Our intention is to support and promote the further worldwide integration of comprehensive evidence-based research and clinical hypnotherapy with mainstream mental health, medicine, and coaching. We do so by disseminating, supporting, and conducting research, providing professional level education, advocating increased level of practitioner competency, and supporting the viability and success of clinical practitioners. Although currently over 80% of our membership is comprised of mental health practitioners, we fully recognize the role, support, involvement, and needs of those in the medical and coaching fields. This site is not intended as a source of medical or psychological advice. Tim Brunson, PhD

Film about fibromyalgia

Posted At : November 16, 2006 5:17 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Pain Management


Novice filmmakers Daneen Akers and Stephen Eyer have completed a documentary that explores the daily challenges of living with fibromyalgia, a type of chronic pain illness. "Living with Fibromyalgia is the first documentary to explore the most intimate feelings and life-altering experiences of seven individuals living with the daily challenges of fibromyalgia.

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3D computer map pinpoints pains

Posted At : November 16, 2006 5:07 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Pain Management


People in pain could soon use a 3D computer program to explain how severe their symptoms are. It has been developed by a team at Brunel University to help wheelchair users log, from home, how they are feeling during the course of a day.

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Researchers Find Evidence for Traumatic Cause of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Posted At : November 16, 2006 5:06 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Pain Management


Newswise -- New Mayo Clinic research suggests that a shearing injury of the tissue that lines the tendons within the carpal tunnel may cause carpal tunnel syndrome, a debilitating condition of the wrist and hand. If validated by further research, Mayo's study comparing electron microscope images of carpal tunnel syndrome tissue with those from normal tissue could lead to earlier diagnosis and possibly better treatments for preventing or reversing carpal tunnel syndrome.

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The concept of dissociation

Posted At : November 16, 2006 2:15 PM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: General


The concept of dissociation has been reviewed and redefined. It was also compared with other mental mechanisms. In the past, the process of dissociation and the content of the dissociation have often been lumped together although they are separate frames of reference. Moreover, very different psychic elements may be dissociated including memories, affects, and psychic structure.

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The cognitive interview: does it successfully avoid the dangers of forensic hypnosis?

Posted At : November 16, 2006 5:42 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Forensics


Seventy-two undergraduates viewed a videotape of a bank robbery that culminated in the shooting of a young boy. Several days later, participants were interviewed about their recollection of events in the film through baseline oral and written narrative accounts followed by random assignment to a hypnosis (HYP) condition, the cognitive interview (CI), or a motivated, repeated recall (MRR) control interview.

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Infants Born to Women Who Were Affected by 9-11 Have Low Cortisol Levels.

Posted At : November 16, 2006 2:59 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Mental Disorders


A recent Mt. Sinai Hospital study by posttraumatic stress researcher, Rachel Yehuda, found that infants born to pregnant women who were directly affected by the World Trade Center attacks, showed biological markers - low cortisol levels - indicating effects of PTSD.

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Women Treated for Breast Cancer Follow Coventional Treatment with CAM

Posted At : November 16, 2006 2:29 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
Related Categories: Cancer


More and more women are now successfully being treated for breast cancer, and wind up searching for ways to hedge their bets on staying strong and well after treatment is completed. A recent survey out of Western Oregon University asked 551 ex-breast cancer patients about their use of 15 different complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies after completion of allopathic therapy for breast cancer. These were women in the Portland OR area who were diagnosed an average of 3.5 years earlier.

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