Hypnotherapy

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-335-24446-1
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

This popular book introduces the subject of hypnosis and explores its application in counselling, psychotherapy, medicine and dentistry. Now thoroughly revised and updated with cutting edge research, including neuro-imaging studies and evidence-based clinical reports, it offers a wealth of new material:

- A new chapter on hypnotherapy and eating disorders

- An overview of theoretical understanding of hypnosis based on recent scientific evidence

- A variety of therapeutic techniques that may be tailored to individual clients

- Advice on how hypnotherapeutic procedures may be used alongside a broad range of psychotherapeutic approaches

- Case studies and treatment plans from the authors’ own practices

Hypnotherapy: A Handbook, 2nd edition is an invaluable resource for practitioners looking for advice, knowledge and ideas with which to inform their clinical practice. The book will prove useful to counsellors, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists and psychologists, both qualified and in training, as well medical and dental practitioners.

Contributors: David A Alexander, Assen Alladin, Barry B Hart, Chrissi Hart, Peter Hawkins, Michael Heap, Elisabeth Kohls, Debbie Mairs-Houghton, Peter Naish, Cath Potter, Ferenc Túry and Ann Williamson.

With thanks to Windy Dryden, co-editor of the first edition of Hypnotherapy: A Handbook (Open University Press, 1991).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heap, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Bewusstseinszustände Hypnose, Psychopharmaka-induzierte Bewusstseinszustände
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The editor and contributors

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Introduction to hypnosis

Role and uses of hypnosis in psychological treatment

Hypnotherapy and anxiety

Hypnotherapy and depression

Hypnotherapy in medicine

Hypnotherapy with children

Hyphotherapy and pain

Hypnotherapy and smoking, weight loss and alcohol and drug abuse

Hypnotherapy and sexual problems

Hypnotherapy and eating disorders

Hypnotherapy in dentistry

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Heap is a clinical and forensic psychologist with over forty years of experience working both with people with mental health and neurological problems and with criminal offenders. He is an internationally recognised authority on hypnosis and has taught and published widely on the subject.