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

The Genie in your Genes: Epigenic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention



A Book Review by Tim Brunson DCH

When the next shift in conventional medical science occurs within just a few decades, we will recognize many intellectual giants who contributed radically new paradigms. If historians create a "Mount Rushmore" to commemorate the four pivotal thinkers who dared to postulate new ideas, they would surely include C. Norm Shealy, MD, Ph.D., Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. and Dawson Church, Ph.D. While fewer people are familiar with the last character, I assure you that he is destined to become recognized when the medical and psychological sciences full embrace the proper role of energy as a healing phenomenon. Although his latest book, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention sat on my bookshelf since he autographed it a couple of months ago, upon completing it I must attest that this is a book not to read, but to devour. Yesterday, I was glued to my seat for hours.

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Innovations in integrative healthcare education.



Content on integrative healthcare and complementary and alternative medicine is being taught in hundreds of educational programs across the country. Nursing, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, and other programs are finding creative and innovative ways to include these approaches in new models of education and practice. This column spotlights such innovations in integrative healthcare and CAM education and presents readers with specific educational interventions they can adapt into new or ongoing educational efforts at their institution or programs. We invite readers to submit brief descriptions of efforts in their institutions that reflect the creativity, diversity, and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Please submit to Dr Sierpina at vssierpi@utmb.edu or Dr Kreitzer at kreit003@umn.edu. Submissions should be no more than 700 to 800 words. Please include any Web site or other resource that is relevant, as well as contact information.

Explore (NY). 2007 Mar-Apr;3(2):174-6.

Sierpina VS, Kreitzer MJ, Burke A, Verhoef M, Brundin-Mather R.

University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA. vssierpi@utmb.edu

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