{"title":"Applying process-oriented hypnosis to treat perfectionism-related depression.","authors":"Shawn R Criswell","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2208638","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2208638","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper brings together concepts, tools, and case examples that provide guidance for ways to use process-oriented clinical hypnosis to shift perfectionistic tendencies to help resolve depression and enhance well-being. Perfectionism is a transdiagnostic risk factor for clinical and subclinical suffering of many types including depression. Over time, perfectionism is becoming more widespread. Perfectionism-related depression can be effectively treated when clinician attention is directed toward core skills and themes. Case examples illustrate how to help clients moderate overly extreme thinking, create and use realistic standards, and develop and apply a balanced self-evaluation. A variety of clinician styles and approaches, especially when tailored to individual client characteristics, preferences, and needs, are compatible with process-oriented hypnotic interventions for perfectionism and depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":" ","pages":"20-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9770254","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":"Addressing global cognition and ineffective depressogenic discrimination strategies with clinical hypnosis.","authors":"Michael D Yapko","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2199811","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2199811","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is a fundamental truth in living that <i>the quality of your decisions shapes the quality of your life</i>. One's cognitive style determines whether one is more likely to be detailed and linear in thinking or more general and impressionistic, obvious influences on the way experiences are interpreted and reactions formed. Global thinking, also referred to as over-general thinking, has been linked to depression for several reasons. These include the lack of detail in making important discriminations that would reduce or eliminate the kind of self-injurious and depressogenic decisions described in the \"stress generation\" model of depression. The importance of having meaningful strategies for making effective decisions on a situation-by-situation basis cannot be overstated. Cognitive psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists use the term \"discrimination\" to describe the process of making distinctions between different situations that give rise to one's reactions. In this article, hypnosis is described as a vehicle for teaching global thinkers to be more skilled in making important discriminations. A sample hypnosis script is provided to illustrate the process.</p>","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":" ","pages":"35-47"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9768977","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":"Tools of intention. Strategies that inspire change","authors":"Arturo Valdez","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2298638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2298638","url":null,"abstract":"Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Vol. 66, No. 1, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"229 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139918449","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":"Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: past, present, future","authors":"David S. Alter","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2298636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2298636","url":null,"abstract":"Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139587608","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":"Introduction to clinical hypnosis: the basics and beyond","authors":"Robert Staffin","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2298637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2298637","url":null,"abstract":"Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139553100","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":"Respect for acting","authors":"David S. Alter","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2298640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2298640","url":null,"abstract":"Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139553097","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":"Future focused strategies in treating depression","authors":"Moshe S. Torem","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2289657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2289657","url":null,"abstract":"Depression commonly features the experience of hopelessness and a loss of the ability to imagine and believe in one’s positive future. This article considers this important feature of depression an...","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139077906","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":"American Society of Clinical Hypnosis 65th annual scientific meetings and workshops: March 2-5, 2023 keynote sessions","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2170668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2170668","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"65 1","pages":"337 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45352971","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}
Albrecht Schmierer, Leonardo De Col, Thomas Stöcker, Thomas G Wolf
{"title":"A hypnotic turbo-induction technique for wisdom tooth extraction.","authors":"Albrecht Schmierer, Leonardo De Col, Thomas Stöcker, Thomas G Wolf","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2022.2123774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2022.2123774","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hypnotic turbo-induction technique has been used for more than three decades for various indications in dentistry and medicine. The use of the technique is described step by step using therapeutic communication and hypnotic suggestions in a dento-surgical treatment of a 48-year-old adult man. In a 15-minute appointment, two maxillary third molars (wisdom teeth) have been extracted without interruptions/complications by a dental team in a private practice trained in dental/medical hypnosis. The hypnotic turbo-induction technique proved to be a successful application method for anxiety reduction/relaxation, pain relief as well as postoperative wound healing after the extraction of wisdom teeth, which had to be extracted due to a medical indication. Anxiety- and pain reducing effects were noted by the patient during and after the treatment; rapid wound healing was noted by the dental team at the follow-up appointment one week later in this case. The cooperation of the two dental professionals trained in hypnosis proved to be beneficial, especially when the dentist must concentrate on the dento-surgical treatment, the dental assistant can concentrate on both the patient and the hypnosis and to maintain the hypnotic state by additional suggestions. Clinical research is needed to further investigate the effects of the proposed hypnotic turbo-induction technique.</p>","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"65 4","pages":"314-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9259957","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":"Editorial.","authors":"Stephen R Lankton","doi":"10.1080/00029157.2023.2184167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2023.2184167","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis has been assembled at what is hopefully the conclusion of the COVID-19 pandemic era in the United States. However, the concerns for this and other viral threats remain globally. Individuals are still experiencing lock downs, work closures, and remote learning. As a result of these distractions and inconveniences, many have developed new problems and/or experienced an exacerbation of previous setbacks. While most of the articles in this issue do not directly address the problems caused by the pandemic, all have bearing on some of the threatening aspects that have resulted from it: learning difficulties, obesity, postponed dental treatments, anxiety, and needle phobias. I am happy to present a timely issue that includes several articles, which have bearing on treating the sequelae of these current worldwide problems. It is my hope that with a little creativity, many readers will be prompted to expand on these ideas and develop further realistic and needed advances in each of these relevant areas. The study from French researchers, Aurélie Untas, Kristopher Lamore, Fabienne Delestre, Guillaume Lehericey, Philippe Giral, and Emilie Cappe is “Psychosocial Effects of Hypnosis in Patients with Obesity: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.” As the title explains, this is a pilot study on the possible benefits of using interventions delivered in hypnosis with patients diagnosed with obesity. Most studies have only concerned themselves with measures of weight loss, but the authors wanted to address and measure changes in quality of life, coping strategies, and self-esteem issues with this study. Beginning with a group size of 82 participants, 41 were assigned to the hypnosis group and received eightgroup sessions over approximately 24 weeks. Both groups received nutritional education information and instructions. The authors describe the intervention delivered during hypnosis as therapeutic suggestions with “a metaphor of change compared to nature to promote psycho-corporeal changes.” Of special interest to reader, the group hypnosis sessions has an unique feature. Each session began with self-reports by participant on their experiences with hypnosis and self-hypnosis. These reports allowed the operator to identify emotion-keywords that would then be used during the subsequent hypnosis in a manner thought to personalize the suggestions. Two months after intervention completion, patients from the non-hypnosis group showed no significant changes on the studied factors. However, patients from the hypnosis group showed significant improvement using more task-oriented coping, less emotion-oriented coping, and reported higher levels for energy, that is, less fatigue. In an article titled, “Therapeutic Hypnosis in a Child With a Written Language Disorder” by Célia Hery-Niaussata, Auriane Grosa, Valeria Maneraa, and Philippe Penigaultc, the authors used a single-case design with repeated measures. They studie","PeriodicalId":46304,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis","volume":"65 4","pages":"267-268"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9263146","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}