American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists

This study, done at North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts, compares four ways of quitting smoking - hypnosis, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), hypnotherapy plus NRT, and abrupt cessation without other treatment (cold turkey) - and finds hypnosis to be the most effective method.

MedPage Today in the UK ran this story about using hypnosis to help relieve pain, anxiety and in 28 patients with non-cardiac, angina-like chest pain, an extremely debilitating and difficult-to-treat condition. The results numbers are quite good.

Read more:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/tb/3128

In this story on the BBC website, a hypnotist in Worthing, England has used hypnosis instead of a general anesthetic for an 83-minute hand surgery.

Here's the link (bbc.co.uk):
Man hypnotises himself before op

Well done!

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What do you think Hollywood would do if it found a doctor, a book and a singer that had come together to "prove" that the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe was alive today and living as a singer in Canada?

Well, what you are thinking is exactly what Hollywood did. It's the glitziest tabloid kind of story, and irresistible to the Hollywood TV and news crews.

When you hear about the Internet, you hear about blogs (short for "web logs"). A blog is a way of adding content to a web site, usually sorted in reverse-chronological order of posting date. This means the most recent blog post is always the first one showing.

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/15488461.html?page=1&c=y

Ohio.com has a story about Jessica Clements, who served as a U.S. Army staff sergeant in Iraq and was wounded with near-fatal head injuries. She uses hypnosis to manage the resulting seizures and panic attacks so effectively that she can attend University as she makes her way to a new career.

Our President, Josie Hadley, passed away on December 13, 2007, after undergoing cancer treatment for over 2 years.

Josie made a huge difference in the lives of thousands of people and in the the industry of Hypnotherapy. Her best-selling book, Hypnosis For Change published by New Harbinger Publications, was translated into 13 languages and is used around the world as a textbook in schools for hypnotherapy.

She founded the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy in 1979, where she become a community supporter, a teacher for hundreds of professional hypnotherapists over the years, and a model entrepreneur. The school has expanded staff and programs now to include medical hypnosis, classes in Spanish and Chinese, NLP and more. Her contributions to local community programs, and her pioneering public relations work, brought hypnotherapy into hospitals and medical centers all over Northern California, and have improved the stature and understanding of hypnosis in the medical community.

If you are looking for books about hypnosis in other languages, we you search for the book by title on a major Web site servicing the speech community of the language you’re looking for. Amazon, for example, has sites dedicated to Japan, Austria, Germany, and France as well as a listing of Spanish-language books.