Hyeji Na, Vindhya Ekanayake, Victor Padilla, Gary R Elkins
{"title":"Pilot Study of Hypnotic Relaxation Therapy for Well-Being (HRT-WB): A New Intervention to Enhance Well-Being and Positive Affect.","authors":"Hyeji Na, Vindhya Ekanayake, Victor Padilla, Gary R Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2124375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2124375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effect of a novel hypnotherapeutic intervention, informed by positive psychology, to enhance well-being in college students. The present study investigated adapting hypnotic relaxation therapy for enhancing well-being (denoted as HRT-WB). Twenty-seven college students were enrolled in a 5-week intervention of HRT-WB and instructed in daily home practice of HRT-WB self-hypnosis using audio recordings. Participants completed baseline and endpoint measures of well-being and symptoms of psychological distress. Results showed participants who received the HRT-WB intervention experienced improvements in subjective well-being as well as reductions in psychological distress. At endpoint, 71% of the participants who completed the HRT-WB intervention were categorized as experiencing high levels of well-being, or flourishing. In addition, HRT-WB is a feasible intervention, with high rates of retention, compliance with home practice, and satisfaction. Based on these promising results, further research into HRT-WB is warranted. HRT-WB could be a well-accepted, easily administered, and effective means of addressing well-being and enhancing flourishing.</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":"40380047","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}
Lindsey C McKernan, Michael T M Finn, Leslie J Crofford, A Gracie Kelly, David R Patterson, Mark P Jensen
{"title":"Delivery of a Group Hypnosis Protocol for Managing Chronic Pain in Outpatient Integrative Medicine.","authors":"Lindsey C McKernan, Michael T M Finn, Leslie J Crofford, A Gracie Kelly, David R Patterson, Mark P Jensen","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2096455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2096455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although strong evidence exists for using individual hypnosis to treat pain, evidence regarding group applications is limited. This project evaluated changes in multiple outcome measures in persons with chronic pain treated with 8 weeks of group hypnosis. Eighty-five adults with diverse chronic pain etiologies completed an 8-session, structured group hypnosis treatment. Pain intensity, pain interference, and global health were evaluated at baseline, posttreatment, and 3- and 6-months posttreatment. Linear mixed effects models assessed changes in outcomes over time. In a model testing, all three outcome measures simultaneously, participants improved substantially from pre- to posttreatment and maintained improvement across follow-up. Analyses of individual outcomes showed significant pre- to posttreatment reductions in pain intensity and interference, which were maintained for pain intensity and continued to improve for pain interference across follow-up. The findings provide compelling preliminary evidence that a group format is an effective delivery system for teaching individual skills in using hypnosis for chronic pain management. Larger randomized controlled trials are warranted to demonstrate equivalence of outcomes between treatment modes.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9420809/pdf/nihms-1821194.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9767465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commentaries.","authors":"Gary Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2095811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2095811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40422720","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":"Adjuvant Hypnotherapy for Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Randomized Pilot Study.","authors":"Seyda Efsun Ozgunay, Burcu Dincgez, Derya Karasu, Gulten Ozgen, Ibrahim Taymur, Sermin Eminoglu, Ilkay Ceylan","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2098026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2098026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hyperemesis gravidarum, which requires hospitalization in approximately 1% to 5% of patients, is characterized by severe nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. This study investigated the effects of hypnosis on nausea, vomiting, use of antiemetic medications, and hospital stay among patients diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum. Patients were randomized to receive either conventional therapy alone (control condition, <i>n</i> = 23) or adjuvant hypnotherapy plus conventional therapy (treatment group, <i>n</i> = 18). Sociodemographic data, severity of nausea, frequency of vomiting per day, rescue medications used, and length of hospital stay were recorded. Participants in the treatment group received 2 sessions of hypnosis and were instructed in daily self-hypnosis practice. Those in the control group received treatment as usual. Results from this study indicated that adjunctive use of hypnotherapy with patients diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum experienced significantly reduced severity of nausea and frequency of vomiting compared to treatment-as-usual alone. Also, hospital stay was found to be shorter in the treatment group as compared to the control group. These findings are encouraging and suggest it is feasible and potentially beneficial to include adjunctive hypnotherapy to treat hyperemesis gravidarum.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40615437","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":"The Proposed Task Force Hypnosis Efficacy Guidelines: The Role of Moderation and Mediation in Efficacy Trials.","authors":"Guy H Montgomery, Irving Kirsch","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2104647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2104647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hypnosis interventions have too often failed to disseminate, in part because of the relatively few high-quality, randomized clinical trials. The Task Force proposes efficacy guidelines, which are intended to improve the quality of clinical hypnosis research and thereby increase dissemination of beneficial hypnosis interventions. However, the Task Force, in muddying the focus on efficacy with opinions about moderation and mediation, proposes guidelines that are likely to: (1) weaken efficacy findings; (2) increase participant mistrust; (3) make efficacy trials more cumbersome; and, (4) treat hypnosis as though it were something other than a time-honored form of talk therapy. While applauding the Task Force's intentions, the current recommendations could be changed to better accomplish their goal of increasing hypnosis dissemination and implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9420796/pdf/nihms-1821212.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9911936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The \"Whack-a-Mole\" Challenge of Hypnosis Research: A Commentary Regarding \"Guidelines for the Assessment of Efficacy of Clinical Hypnosis Applications\".","authors":"Michael D Yapko","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2104648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2104648","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this short commentary, the author acknowledges the merits of trying to establish treatment guidelines for the use of hypnosis in treatment and applauds the efforts and intentions of the <i>Task Force for Establishing Efficacy Standards for Clinical Hypnosis</i>. He identifies a few of the complex issues in trying to promote guidelines for conducting research and clinical practice in the domain of hypnosis; these include the difficulties in defining hypnosis and hypnotically-based interventions, the divergent ways hypnosis is applied in actual practice by clinicians who rely on their own understandings and biases in designing and delivering hypnosis, and the inevitable variations in skill level across practitioners. To their credit, the <i>Task Force</i> has considered these and other practical issues in their approach to formulating guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40555988","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":"Hypnobiome: A New, Potential Frontier of Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome-A Narrative Review of the Literature.","authors":"Giuseppe De Benedittis","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2094269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2094269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasing evidence suggests that the gut-brain axis may play a key role in health and disease via a bidirectional communication network involving neural and immunoendocrine pathways. This complex interplay deeply influences both gut microbiota and brain behavior. Pathobiome or gut dysbiosis is relevant for the pathogenesis of functional gastrointestinal disorders, such as IBS, chronic pain syndromes, and neurological and mental disorders. As a consequence, targeting the gut microbiota is emerging as a novel, effective therapeutic perspective. Among many treatment options, psychological interventions, including hypnosis, have been used to target the so-called psychobiome and its hypnotic analogue, i.e., hypnobiome, referring to their potential efficacy to modulate the mind-gut axis in IBS patients. A narrative review of the recent literature is provided and circumstantial evidence suggests that hypnobiome may represent a new promising frontier of hypnotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40575257","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":"Personality Styles of Hypnosis-Practicing Dentists: A Brief Report.","authors":"Burkhard Peter, Thomas G Wolf","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2097082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2097082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This cross-sectional study used the Personality Style and Disorder Inventory (PSDI) via the internet to examine personality styles of random hypnosis society sample groups (German Society of Dental Hypnosis [DGZH, <i>n</i> = 418] and Milton Erickson Society of Clinical Hypnosis Germany Listserv [MEG, <i>n</i> = 490]) and compared these data of hypnosis practitioners (HYP samples) with 2 control samples of persons not interested in hypnosis (NONHYP samples): 1,027 psychotherapists from DACH countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) and 3,392 people of the normal population of Germany. Results show that HYP-DGZH dentists were much more intuitive/schizotypal (<i>p < </i>.001), unselfish/self-sacrificing (<i>p < </i>.001), charming/histrionic (<i>p < </i>.001) and optimistic/rhapsodic (<i>p < </i>.001) than the HYP-MEG sample. All HYP-DGZH dentists also showed significantly elevated levels in these four personality styles compared with the levels of the NONHYP-DACH psychotherapists (<i>p < </i>.001), and elevated levels in intuitive/schizotypal, unselfish/self-sacrificing, and optimistic/rhapsodic compared with the NONHYP normal population. The intuitive/schizotypal values of the HYP-DGZH dentists were predominant. Within the limitations of the study, the presence of a specific personality profile in random samples of dentists who use hypnosis and are members of a professional hypnosis society suggests that a \"homo hypnoticus\" might also exist among dentists. However, this needs to be investigated in more detail.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40606785","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":"From Research to Clinical Practice.","authors":"Gary Elkins","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2095813","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2095813","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lead article of this issue of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (IJCEH) is a landmark report from an international task force that provides contemporary guidelines for evaluating the efficacy of clinical hypnosis interventions. This is a very important article that can inform clinical practice as well as future research. Further, this issue of the IJCEH includes a study of the role of hypnotizability in well-being and health which has implications for positive psychology interventions integrating clinical hypnosis. Also, another study in this issue of the IJCEH reports the impressive results from the one year follow-up from a randomized clinical trial of self-hypnosis and self-care among cancer patients. The findings from these studies point to the role of clinical hypnosis in well-being and self-care. Additional articles provide insights from virtual reality hypnosis in pain research and the relationship between beliefs and hypnotizability. The final article presents new research on the feasibility of an on-line hypnosis intervention for women with persistent pelvic pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40422718","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, Emese Józsa, Katalin Varga, Éva Bányai, András Költő, Attila Szabó
{"title":"Altered States of Consciousness during Exercise, Active-Alert Hypnosis, and Everyday Waking State.","authors":"Eniko Kasos, Krisztian Kasos, Emese Józsa, Katalin Varga, Éva Bányai, András Költő, Attila Szabó","doi":"10.1080/00207144.2022.2093644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2022.2093644","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This retrospective study was a nonrandomized comparison of exercisers' (runners and participants of a spinning class) states of consciousness with subjects of active-alert hypnosis (AAH) and students in a class (control). Three hundred and seventy-five participants completed the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI). Runners, spinners, and participants of AAH scored higher on the <i>altered experience</i> and <i>altered state of awareness</i> dimensions of the PCI than the control group. Runners scored higher than participants of AAH and the control condition on the <i>rationality</i> dimension, and spinners scored higher than participants in the AAH condition. The AAH group scored lowest on the <i>self-awareness</i> dimension. On the <i>volitional control</i> dimension, the spinning and control groups scored significantly higher than the runner and AAH groups. The results suggest that exercise may lead to states of consciousness similar to AAH and thus increase responsiveness to a coach's training suggestions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13896,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40481170","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}