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
Thinking Thin: D.E.P.T.H. of Behavior is a cute and enjoyable-to-read small book by one of hypnosis' master marketers, Tom Nicoli. He spends a large portion of the book eloquently expressing his opinion about the current obesity epidemic facing the Western world. Then he presents a well-communicated explanation about how self-hypnosis can be easily performed by the reader.
Michael R "Ron" Eslinger, Captain, USN, Retired RN, CRNA, MA, APN, BCH, CI,
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Master of Arts, Board Certified Hypnotherapists, Certified Instructor of Hypnosis
Ron Eslinger, Owner and CEO of Healthy Visions Wellness Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee was nominated by the Department of the Navy to Represent the Department of Defense as Ex-Officio member to the National Institutes of Health's Health Service's Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Guild of Hypnotist's receiver of the Researcher of the Year award for 2003. He graduated from St. Mary's nursing school Knoxville, TN, in 1970 and completed Nurse Anesthesia training at the University of Tennessee in 1974. Certified in Hypnotherapy in 1978. He received his BS degree in Professional Arts from Saint Joseph's College in Wenham, Main, and his Masters Degree in Foreign Affairs for National Defense and Strategic Studies from the United States Naval War College, Newport, RI in 1994.
