With each newsletter IHRI is now offering a free hypnotherapy demonstration and script to all of our subscribers and visitors to our blog. Click here for download. This brief script is designed to help the subject increase their kinesthetic awareness as a prelude to improving their somatic healing skills.

From the Editor by Tim Brunson, PhD The Danger of Hypnosis in Trauma Therapy Those who practice any form of hypnotherapy – to include clinicians whose practice incorporates the rather trendy concept of mindfulness – absolutely must tread carefully if they learn or detect that their patient or client has experienced or continues to suffer from a past traumatic experience. As the power of the hypnosis process relies largely on bypassing some of a person's natural protective faculties (i.e. the innate resistance to pattern change) and very often involves mental reprogramming through association, its use may be contrary to their client's natural defense mechanisms. Careless use of hypnosis can intensify the use of these mechanisms and easily result in long-term suffering. Therefore, the use of hypnosis with trauma patients must be limited to only mental health clinicians, who are specifically trained in trauma care. More Behaviorism, Hypnotherapy, and Choice Over the past several decades the rise of behaviorism within psychology has both been enlightening as well as often disturbing. By reclassifying psychology as the science of behavior rather than the science of the mind, behaviorists have insisted that all human physical and mental activities consist of observable phenomena, which can then be modified should the scientist or clinician understand how to apply or withhold positive or negative reinforcements. As such, this deterministic approach has served to strip away the role of choice, free will, and even calls into question the role of higher-level intelligence. More Currently 54,992 medical, mental health and coaching practitioners receive this newsletter.

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Articles Wanted Articles from Guest Authors Wanted We are looking for short articles on all areas of complementary and alternative health care. This includes not only hypnotherapy. We are also looking for articles on counseling, chiropractic, homeopathy, massage therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, naturopathic medicine, energy medicine and psychology, ayurvedia, Therapeutic Touch, Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, and biofeedback and neurofeedback. Additionally, we will accept articles about practice management, coaching, public speaking and book writing. Articles should be of a clinical nature and should appeal to the wider CAM audience as well as to those within your speciality. As this blog is focused on serving the clinical community rather than the general public, articles with fundamental information such as "what is hypnosis" will most likely not be accepted. Articles should be 250 to 1,200 words. If you have not already been featured as a "Who's Who" on our site, please include a brief bio and a photo. Your articles may be highlighted in our newsletter which goes out to approximately 60,000 clinicians, and will be available on the Web through on our blog, indexed by the major search engines, and available through our archives. We are looking for short non-peer reviewed articles. If accepted, your articles may be commented on by our members, subscribers, and the general public.