{"title":"Using Buddhist Meditation-informed Hypnotic Techniques to Manage Rumination: Two Case Illustrations.","authors":"Akira Otani","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2160259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2160259","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rumination is a clinical phenomenon that causes significant distress in clients who suffer from various psychological and physical disorders. It also has a deleterious impact on both therapeutic process and outcome. One approach that holds promise to manage rumination is mindfulness meditation in combination with clinical hypnosis. This article: (1) reviews the concept of and techniques to manage rumination in the Buddhist psychological framework, (2) introduces 2 simple mindfulness-based techniques to deal with rumination, i.e., mindful thought detachment and mindful dereflection, and (3) describes 2 case studies in which these strategies were applied successfully. Hypnosis-informed clinicians are encouraged to integrate these approaches in their practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9296291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hassan Khazraee, Maryam Bakhtiari, Amir Sam Kianimoghadam, Elaheh Ghorbanikhah
{"title":"The Effectiveness of Mindful Hypnotherapy on Depression, Self-Compassion, and Psychological Inflexibility in Females with Major Depressive Disorder: A Single-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Hassan Khazraee, Maryam Bakhtiari, Amir Sam Kianimoghadam, Elaheh Ghorbanikhah","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2160257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2160257","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effectiveness of the novel intervention <i>mindful hypnotherapy</i> on depression, self-compassion, and psychological inflexibility in females with major depressive disorder was examined in a randomized, clinical trial. Thirty-four participants were randomly allocated into mindful hypnotherapy and waitlist control groups. The intervention group was treated in 8 face-to-face, 60-minute weekly therapy sessions along with mindful hypnosis audio tapes to be used daily. The results of analysis of covariance indicated that there were significant differences between the mindful hypnotherapy and waitlist control groups after intervention and at 2-month follow-up (<i>p</i> < .001). The between-subject test of repeated measures ANOVAs also indicated a clinically significant difference between groups across time (baseline, postintervention, and 2-month follow-up) in depression, <i>F</i> = 53.86, <i>p</i> < .001, effect size = .65, and in self-compassion, <i>F</i> = 33.18, <i>p</i> < .001, effect size = .53, as well as psychological inflexibility, <i>F</i> = 26.84, <i>p</i> < .001, effect size = .48. In conclusion, this study indicates that mindful hypnotherapy is an effective intervention for treating depression as well as reducing psychological inflexibility and improving self-compassion for patients with major depressive disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9296727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of Hypnosis as an Adjuvant in Oncological Settings: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Marc Franch, Ana Alarcón, Antonio Capafons","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2160255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2160255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research has shown promising results in using hypnosis to treat various symptoms and side effects of medical treatments. The objective was to identify studies that use hypnosis as an adjuvant to evidence-based treatments to evaluate its benefits in patients with cancer. The search identified 873 articles published between 2000 and February 2021, of which 22 were selected using the principles of the PRISMA. Apart from 1 study, all studies showed that interventions improved the measured variables compared to a control group. Most studies showed that hypnosis has positive effects on reducing anxiety, pain, nausea, fatigue, drug use, and length of hospital stays. Hypnosis also improves depressive symptoms, insomnia, hot flashes, well-being, and quality of life, and helps increase adherence to treatment. When used by qualified professionals as an adjuvant to well-established treatments, hypnosis improves symptoms caused by oncological interventions and the disease itself. In addition, hypnosis has no side effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9280752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Hypnotherapy Increase Well-Being?","authors":"G. Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2131135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2131135","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Emotional well-being is a broad term that refers to happiness, positive social relationships, life balance, and the pursuit of positive goals. Further, emotional well-being has been shown to reduce risk of death by nearly 20% (Cohen, et al., 2016). The lead article (Na et al., 2022) explores this issue and reports on a pilot study of hypnotic relaxation therapy for well-being (HRT-WB). Their findings demonstrate that 71% of participants achieved high levels of well-being or flourishing. In addition to this innovative study, several articles are included that increase access to scales that measure hypnotizability in French (Apelian, 2022), Russian (Kvitchasty 2022), and Spanish (Muñiz et al., 2022). Kasos et al. 2022 explore the role of hypnotizability in regard to skin conductance orienting response (SCR) in response to differing types of suggestions. Finally, Cordi and Rasch (2022) explore the role of hypnotizability in accurate perception of sleep, with findings suggesting sleep depth may be associated with slow wave sleep and interoceptive ability of accurately perceive sleep depth depending on hypnotizability. Together, these studies identify new applications of clinical hypnosis, increase the availability of scales to measure hypnotizability across cultures, and further understanding of hypnotizability.","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45294855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2123181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2123181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33462956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anton V Kvitchasty, Daria A Vereshchagina, Anastasia V Kovaleva, Gary R Elkins, Victor J Padilla
{"title":"Adaptation of the Russian Version of the Elkins Hypnotizability Scale.","authors":"Anton V Kvitchasty, Daria A Vereshchagina, Anastasia V Kovaleva, Gary R Elkins, Victor J Padilla","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2124376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2124376","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Until now, there has been an acute shortage of valid and reliable tools in Russia for making an accurate and highly differentiable assessment of hypnotizability. However, numerous studies confirm the high efficiency, reliability, and accuracy of the Elkins Hypnotizability Scale (EHS), allowing it to claim the title of the new gold standard for assessing hypnotizability. In the present study, the original English-language version of the EHS was translated into Russian. One hundred and five volunteers from Moscow (42% male; 58% female), aged 19 to 44, underwent a hypnotizability assessment procedure according to the EHS protocol. The Russian version of the EHS, like the original, requires an average of 28 minutes to administer and score by a trained assessor. The results showed that the Russian version of the EHS has good internal consistency and does not contain unnecessary elements. Alpha Cronbach values (0.76), and the item-total correlations (<i>r</i><sub>s</sub> = 0.44-0.64) are satisfactory.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10777051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eniko Kasos, Krisztian Kasos, Zoltan Kekecs, Anna Szekely, Katalin Varga
{"title":"Electrodermal Orienting Response During Active-Alert Hypnosis: Do Verbal Suggestions Influence Automatic Attentional Processes?","authors":"Eniko Kasos, Krisztian Kasos, Zoltan Kekecs, Anna Szekely, Katalin Varga","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2127359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2127359","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study explored the influence of suggestions on differences in electrodermal laterality of the skin conductance orienting response (SCR). Thirty-two participants were randomly assigned to either permitting or excluding suggestions. During the dream task in the permitting condition the suggestion was: “You are aware of your surroundings and any distractions that might disturb your dream,” while in the excluding condition the wording was: “No outside stimulus will disturb your sleep.” Participants were presented with 12 standards and 2 deviant computer-generated tones during active-alert hypnosis and musical control conditions in a mixed within-between design. High hypnotizables produced higher SCRs after permissive compared to excluding suggestions during hypnosis, while low hypnotizables did the same in the control condition. Study limitations include some loss of data due to equipment failure and relative homogeneity of sample, therefore results cannot be considered definitive.","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10760107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hypnotizability May Relate to Interoceptive Ability to Accurately Perceive Sleep Depth: An Exploratory Study.","authors":"Maren Jasmin Cordi, Bjoern Rasch","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2130068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2130068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When individuals score high on hypnotizability, they usually report experiencing an altered state of consciousness, physiological changes, and attentional shifts during hypnotic induction procedures as well. We hypothesize that a better interoception of such internal changes is also relevant for accurate sleep perception. We compared subjects scoring high versus low on hypnotizability to the accuracy of their estimations of Sleep Onset Latency (SOL) time awake, and sleep depth and explored their objective sleep. We sampled seven studies performed in our sleep labs across a midday nap or a night resulting in <i>n</i> = 231 subjects (aged 30.11 (<i>SD</i> = 17.02) years, range 18-82 with 15.2% males). Hypnotizability did not influence the accuracy of the perception of time needed to fall asleep or time spent awake. However, the reported sleep depth correlated significantly with the measured amount of slow-wave sleep in high hypnotizables. This pattern appeared across a nap as well as a whole night's sleep studies. We did not find any significant differences in objective sleep patterns depending on hypnotizability. Probably, high hypnotizables benefit from a better interoceptive ability for their perception of their sleep depth.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10403701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French Norms for the Online Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotizability.","authors":"Clement Apelian","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2124377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2124377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents French norms for the online version of the Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotizability. This scale is an online adaptation of the well-established Waterloo-Stanford Group C Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility: with both behavioral and subjective scores. Insofar as hypnotizability (the ability to respond to suggestions in a hypnotic context) varies substantially in the general population and remains generally stable throughout life, it is important to measure it in experiments using hypnotic suggestion. However, these scales are time consuming, as they often require multiple sessions to achieve a suitable sample size for subsequent participant screening. One promising route for overcoming this inconvenience is to perform hypnotizability assessment online. The Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotizability is the first to have demonstrated the viability of online measurement. The authors demonstrate that their translation of this scale yields similar statistics.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33470420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasibility of the Elkins Hypnotizability Scale-Spanish Translation.","authors":"Vanessa Muñiz, Morgan Snyder, Gary R Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2124378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2124378","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The absence of a Spanish translation of the Elkins Hypnotizability Scale (EHS) suggests access to clinical research and hypnotic interventions may be limited for those in predominantly Spanish-speaking populations. The present study aims to mitigate this disparity by providing a translation of the EHS to facilitate participation in experimental research and clinical care in Spanish-speaking communities. The EHS was translated and administered to 9 participants. No major modifications were done to the characteristics or structure of the EHS after translation. To assess feasibility, mean hypnotizability levels and self-reported levels of pleasantness and comprehension were observed and compared to the English EHS. The results provide a Spanish translation of the EHS. This study demonstrates the Spanish translation of the EHS is feasible for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40394181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}