(ISSN 2573-4393)
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine is an international peer-reviewed Open Access journal published quarterly online by LIDSEN Publishing Inc. It covers all evidence-based scientific studies on integrative, alternative and complementary approaches to improving health and wellness.
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Topical Collection
Hypnotic and Strategic Psychotherapy
Editor
Joseph Meyerson, PhD
Clinical and Medical Psychologist, Senior Lecturer, Medical Psychology Department, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College; Former Co-President, Israeli Psychosomatic Society; Former President, Israeli Society of Hypnosis, HypnoClinic, Tel Aviv, Israel
Research Interests: Strategic psychotherapy; hypnotic psychotherapy; hypnosis; hypnotherapy; dissociation; psychosomatics
Scope
Integrating hypnosis into psychotherapy and medicine is a complex endeavor. This challenge arises from the diverse approaches and theoretical orientations of professionals who study and apply hypnosis in their practice. The intricate historical roots of hypnosis, along with the varied paradigms researchers use to conceptualize it as a phenomenon, further complicate its integration into clinical applications.
This special issue aims to present and demonstrate various models of hypnosis implementation in psychotherapy, medicine, and psychosomatics. These models, which represent dominant approaches in contemporary clinical practice, offer frameworks for the effective and appropriate incorporation of hypnosis into therapeutic settings.
Publication (7 papers)
Abstract
| A therapeutic intervention combines guided imagery and hypnotic techniques (including self-hypnosis), direct and indirect suggestions, medical treatments, and highly improving patient condition. A variety of hypnotic intervention techniques were introduced to treat a highly hypnotizable patient suff [...] |
Abstract
| This paper aims to introduce a relatively novel approach for Hypnosis to treat Depersonalization-derealization Disorder (DPRD). Depersonalization is conceptualized as a disrupted interoceptive process disorder. Based on this conceptualization, Hypnotic intervention is tailored to counter the flawed [...] |
Abstract
| Much has been written about the aetiological role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the development of chronic adult physical and emotional health problems but current screening methods utilising questionnaires and formal interviewing often fail to show consensus across populations and surv [...] |
Aminata Bicego
, pauline delmal
, Didier Ledoux
, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville
, Benoît Maertens de Noordhout
, Alfredo Cerasoli
, Héléna Cassol
, Olivia Gosseries
and
Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse
Abstract
| Phantom limb pain occurs in more than half of the people who have undergone an amputation. Hypnosis can alleviate pain effectively in experimental, procedural, and chronic pain. Thus, in this multiple-case study, we determined whether hypnosis might be a successful complementary approach [...] |
Abstract
| The patient as the custodian of their own care is a concept that has been evolving for several years and can help the patient to a better and quicker recovery. Medical Hypnosis (MH) assist the practitioner to reduce the patient’s pain and disorders and help the patient to understand, accept, and man [...] |
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| The authors attempted to operationalize the clinical work of strategic theorist and expert family therapist, Scott Browning. Strategic therapy takes the position that a client is stuck, not necessarily sick. This focus encourages the clinician to create alternative perspectives such that a client le [...] |
Zahi Arnon
Abstract
| After the emergence of Mindfulness in the Western world, many studies proved its mental and physical benefits. However, implementing Mindfulness in psychotherapy has several challenges: therapists are not formal Mindfulness instructors; the Mindfulness course is a continuous eight-week course, which [...] |
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