Tim Brunson DCH

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Cognitive hypnotherapy: a new vision and strategy for research and practice.

Posted At : July 3, 2012 5:53 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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This article describes cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), a visionary model of adjunctive hypnotherapy that advances the role of clinical hypnosis to a recognized integrative model of psychotherapy. As hypnosis lacks a coherent theory of psychotherapy and behavior change, hypnotherapy has embodied a mixed bag of techniques and thus hindered from transfiguring into a mainstream school of psychotherapy. One way of promoting the therapeutic standing of hypnotherapy as an adjunctive therapy is to systematically integrate it with a well-established psychotherapy. By blending hypnotherapy with cognitive behavior therapy, CH offers a unified version of clinical practice that fits the assimilative model of integrated psychotherapy, which represents the best integrative psychotherapy approach for merging both theory and empirical findings.

Am J Clin Hypn. 2012 Apr;54(4):249-62. Alladin A. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Assen.Alladin@albertahealthservices.ca

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Eric (Rick)Leskowitz , MD, ABHM

Posted At : July 3, 2012 2:25 AM | Posted By : Tim Brunson, PhD
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Dr. Leskowitz directs the Integrative Medicine Project at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He is currently producing a documentary film about science, spirituality, and sports entitled "The Joy of Sox: Weir Science and the Power of Attention" which will be released in Spring 2007. He holds appointments with the Departments of Psychiatry at Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools. He has studied energy healing, meditation and hypnosis for over 20 years, and has written and presented widely on the integration of subtle energy techniques and theories with the allopathic medical model. A collection of his papers entitle Energy Medicine: The Dynamics of Subtle Energy in Health and Disease is available from the author. He has also edited two textbooks: Transpersonal Hypnosis: Gateway to Body, Mind and Spirit (CRC Press, 2000) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Rehabilitation (Churchill Livingstone, 2003).

For more information, visit: www.TheJoyOfSoxMovie.com or www.EnergyMedicine101.com

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