Tim Brunson DCH

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Openning Remarks October 2006 IMDHA Conference

Posted At : November 8, 2006 8:48 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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The following remarks were made on October 28, 2006, at the Annual IMDHA Conference held in Troy, Michigan.

2006 Dr. Anne Spencer's IMDHA Opening Address

Achieving Quantum Awareness

Greeting dear colleagues ~

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association Platinum Anniversary conference Hypnosis and Holistic Living – this year titled appropriately Achieving Quantum Awareness ~ The Journey Continues.

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Introversion-Extraversion, Tempo, and Guided Imagery

Posted At : November 8, 2006 8:46 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Strelow and Davidson tested the hypotheses that (a) introverts would produce more vivid imagery than would extraverts, and that (b) introverts would produce better imagery if the background auditory tempo were slow, and extraverts would produce better mental imagery of the background auditory tempo were fast. Participants (N=240) were classified as introverts or extraverts and were randomly assigned one of three tempo conditions: slow, fast, or none.

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Increasing Diabetic Self-Care Through Guided Imagery

Posted At : November 8, 2006 8:35 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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People have suspected for years that guided imagery is an ideal intervention for people with diabetes. Because it lowers stress and people with Type II Diabetes (also known as Adult Onset Diabetes) are famously responsive to stress, it seems pretty obvious. But not a whole lot of hard-core study has been done on the subject.

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Charcot, Freud and the unconscious

Posted At : November 8, 2006 8:00 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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During the ten last years (1882-1892) of Charcot's (1825-1893), life he attempted to explain hysteria symptomas. He discussed clinical examples (hypnosis and hypnotherapy, "hystero-traumatism", "psychological theory of hysteria", "faith healing"). The psychological dimension went back into the Parisian Hospital Medicine. This occurred on the late XIXth century, just one century after Mesmer, when Freud was Charcot's intern, at La Salpetriere hospital, during years 1885-1886. The return of a non-rational thought into hospital medicine upset the organicist concepts of the Parisian "Ecole anatomo-clinique".

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Awake-alert hypnosis in the treatment of panic disorder: a case report

Posted At : November 8, 2006 6:04 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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An individual developed a lifestyle-limiting case of Panic Disorder that threatened to interfere with her raison d'etre: To participate in the exclusive lifestyle of her community. The panic episodes started to cripple her social calendar and as the "season" came into full swing her coveted role of chairwoman of various philanthropic functions came into peril.

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Imagery Works as Well as Actual Practice

Posted At : November 8, 2006 5:30 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Researchers from the Department of OBGYN at Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center tested the effects of varying the amount of physical practice vs. mental imagery rehearsal for training medical students to perform basic surgical procedures.

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