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Clinical HypnotherapyWhat therapies has Conventional Medicine adopted, that were once Alternative Medicine Therapies?
Just a few decades ago our medical establishment said it was impossible to control involuntary functions, such as heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure. Some alt. medicine doctors made such a therapy, called BioFeedback to control these involuntary functions. {Which Yogi’s & devote monk’s showed that they could control such functions with the power of the mind, during meditation}
Biofeedback became very popular, and what you can’t stop, you accept, so the medical establishment has now accredited biofeedback, and it is used in the medical profession for controlling involuntary functions. A few of the its capabilites are: reducing blood pressure, stress, anxiety, & eliminating migraines.
Hypnotherapy was once alternative medicine, and was used by Dr. J. Estdaile, a Scottish Surgeon, practicing in 1800′s, he used hypnotism in operations, before anesthesia was available.His rate of success was 10x above his colleagues, who rejected this. Clinical Hypnotherapy is now accredited
Chiropractic, is that not still called ‘quackery’ by the medical establishment? What have they adopted, what field is it called in Medicine?
Indeed may active ingredients come from herbs, and then modified and synthesised. But they cannot replicate how herbs work, which is in synergy, many different chemicals in the herb working together to bring back health, relieve symptoms with little{mild}-no side-effects.
One of my favorite and least known examples would have to be cat scans (which technically aren’t "therapies"). They were developed by a company in england, which first tried to introduce them to the US market. The FDA refused to allow them, and the AMA gave it a cold shoulder. Then the company folded, those same parties bought their stock up for pennies on the dollar and cat scans became legalized and common practice in the US. I actually met one of the people who use to work with the original company and hates the US gov with a passion for that ("they don’t pull that type of bollocks in england").
A lot of alternative medicines are accepted in various places, by doctors for certain usages, but the acceptance is not consistent. Doctors are very conservative, so it’s nearly impossible to find any one alternative medicine which has complete acceptance, heck there are very few conventional medicines like that. Truthfully though, at least in this current time period, I sincerely believe the primary thing which determines if a medcine gets widespread usage is if it can be profited off of. That’s been the historical example.
For instance, many like to cite the example of all the herbs which were turned into medicine by pharma companies (which also fulfills your question). Yet many also criticize the companies (anti holistic) approach of isolating the active ingredient in an herb and synthesizing it instead of using the herb, as new concentrated form without the extra parts can often make people become sick and also is less effective than the normal one. So despite this trend, why did companies continuously do that approach to making drugs? Pretty simple, no money to be made in herbs everyone can grow, but the new patented pill can be!
As far as your question goes, personally, my favorite current thing is chinese medicine. Originally, it was mocked ridiculed, and completely refused acceptance. Gradually people started waking up to it’s efficacy and using it, while the medicinal establishment spewed every piece of propoganda imaginable to claim china’s population gets better health than the US’s trillion dolar medical system off the placebo effect. Now it’s shifted to weaker attacks, the conservates still holding out, research validating it cropping up, and many doctors starting to recommend it to their patients, and places like Kaiser giving it to their customers. Can’t wait to see how much further it will go in 10 m ore years.
*it should be noted that something similar to this happened with chiropractic, although it was a bit different. The AMA went after with in law suits, and told all their practicioners to not under any circumstances recommend chiropractic to their patients. The Chiros banded together and sued the AMA. Courts ruled the AMAs suppression of chiro was illegal, and since then more and more doctors are working with chiros since they are trained to fix a set of problems doctors know nothing about beyond "more painkillers!"
Lastly in regards to skep doc!
I always love watching your logical fallacies presented on the pretense of reasoned objective discourse. Let’s see what you dug up today.
Making proclamations about subjects that one has not studied! There’s quite a bit more that biofeedback does, it is used clinically, and there’s a tremendous amount of research validating it. Feel free to read this!
http://www.aapb.org/files/public/Yucha-Gilbert.pdf
I don’t really think you can claim the evidence isn’t satisfactory; on their 1-5 scale, very few approved drugs have gotten above a 2.
Second,
If people having A causes B, and A going away makes B go away, and it’s later discovered that C causes B, does that mean A is trivial and inconsequential? That’s essentially what you’re arguing with stress and ulcers. Antiobiotics can be given to cure them, but stress treatment still works well, especially in the 20% which are not uclers.
Third;
All I request is if you have a really "out there" idea (therapeutic touch, homeopathy, iridology, magnet healing, crystal healing, pyramid healing, reiki, craniosacral massage, EFT, acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathy, Gerson therapy, the Orgone, the Bates Method, Dianetics, Christian Science………….)
That’s basically a straw man argument. Crystal healing is "out there new age garbage" (a fact we basically agree on), but lumping it with osteopathy, which is a liscened doctor degree in the US (the history of that is rather interesting, when osteopaths were trying to get liscened, the AMA threw a fit about it, and claimed to the state legistlature that it was quackery and did not work; unfortunately many of the officials had already been treated with osteopathy, and thus allowed it become a liscenced profession).
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"then you provide me with some convincing evidence."
"It is not my job to DIS-prove Alt Meds wild claims…there are over 600 different AM practices and more every month.
As it is, I read dozens of papers on it every year …I don’t have the time to sort through all the chaff."
You claim there is no evidence, yet you admit selectively choosing to ignore viewing evidence which proves your ideology to be incorrect. Your sentiment is exactly why many claim science behaves as a religion.
In many of the alternative medicines you slandered, there is actually a wealth of evidence available (it just tends to "not be read" by conservative scientists who want to cling to their viewpoint of the world). At this point in time, I’m completely a senior seminar for my degree (I had to do research on 2 therapies, biofeedback was first), where I’m studying Orgone stuff (mom used it to cure cancer so I figured it would be worth taking a look at). Interestingly, there’s actually tons of work (and really well done research) that’s been done on it, and I’ve actually independently confirmed one part of it which was "impossible and disproven" by the conventional community. If you have any interest in learning about the topic you present yourself as being informed on, you might want to look at results done by researches that tried to replicate Reich’s experiments!
The other parts of evidence based medicine are pretty much rehashes of what you’ve been told before.
1) Double blind trials do not work well for testing anything besides drugs, and require a lot of funding which only large profit based institutions have. Additionally, many rushed to the market are later shown to have been doctored to fit the agenda of their funder. It’s a nice mantra to cling to for proof, but it’s really not the end all decided of truth the way god used to be.
2) If you want to cling to evidence based medicine to support your ideology, at least be fair and view pratices you are biased against through the same lens you give to ones you like instead of just dismissing them. "Hey I have magic glasses that always show the truth when you look through them." "What do you do when you see something you don’t want to believe" "Well obviously I close my eyes." "Then why do we take what you magic glasses say to be the truth in everything?"
I really enjoy listening to the angry tone you use when you write.
Mind over Matter – Impossible Magic by Richard Nongard
http://www.SubliminalScience.com Hypnotist Richard Nongard, enjoys a magic trick while recovering from foot surgery…
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Have you had hypnoanalysis or known anyone who has had this treatment for anxiety/panic disorders??
I dont mean suggestion/clinical hypnotherapy, The hypno analysis one.
If you had this therapy, did you find it worked? Did you find out something you had repressed and had to remember, how did you deal with that? Any more info other than this would be very much appriciated.
Thanks
Rachie
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Hallo Rachie.
I am a practising Hypnoanalyst.
It works by getting to the root cause.
I have helped many who suffer from any phobias to frequent panic attacks and much more.
It works much more thoroughly than simple therapy, but is a little more costly.
You could expect to pay £600 for 12 one hour sessions, which will get to the root cause, and, in effect, give you a completely fresh start in life.
You will then have no hang ups, fears, phobias… and something else… it will almost guarantee that your weight problem, whether it be too much or little will balance out to the "norm"
Worth £600?
You betchya!
When going through the process you will be confronting that irrational fear, which your mind has repressed.
You will bring it out into the open… face it, relive the "event", and move on with your life.
It is worthwhile just to get rid of all the clutter in our minds.
Well Rachie, I do hope this has painted a clearer picture for you.
Clinical Practice of Hypnotherapy
The hypnotic state has long been recognized as a significant catalyst for psychotherapeutic change, yet few individuals have been as committed, as M. Erik Wright, to exploring and perfecting the clinical art of hypnotherapy. At the time of his death, Erik Wright had been assembling a volume that would convey the importance as well as the specific techniques of using hypnosis in a therapeutic context. This unfinished work was taken up by the author’s wife, Beatrice A. Wright, a psychologist well acquainted with the field of hypnosis, who compiled and organized the wealth of material designated for this volume. The result of their combined efforts is an outstanding hypnotherapy text that both retains Erik Wright’s unique orientation and captures the essence of values that guided his work. Presenting a cogent conceptual framework along with actual protocols demonstrating a wide variety of clinically effective hypnotherapeutic procedures, CLINICAL PRACTICE OF HYPNOTHERAPY is divided into three parts. The first section introduces the underlying principles of hypnotherapy. Defining the relationship of hypnotherapy to psychotherapy, and the theoretical basis upon which the book was founded, it describes the various methods and preparations for inducing trance experiences. Topics include: common misconceptions about hypnosis; procedures for introducing clients to the trance state; the hypnotherapy of language usage; and non-verbal ways of signalling thoughts and feelings. Closing the section are lucid demonstrations of induction and enhancement procedures, including progressive relaxation, eye fixation, number progression, guided imagery, and autohypnosis, among others. The second section elaborates and illustrates a variety of hypnotherapeutic procedures using actual cases. One chapter, for example, presents guided imagery as applied to cases of phobic-anxiety, skin rash, and peptic ulcer. Another chapter is devoted to a variety of projective techniques, showing how they may be used to assuage grief and relieve stress. Other chapters describe approaches involving time, re-orientation, dissociation, and client-therapist role reversal. Part three focusses on special clinical problems such as pain control, cessation of smoking, and the management of sleep disorders. Each is addressed in a separate chapter that provides detailed therapeutic procedures for ameliorating the problem. In understanding the nature of the problems covered, the historical and cultural contexts, biological aspects, and current theories are brought to bear. For example, a chapter on the management of overeating opens by reviewing the psycho-social meanings of food, and offers guidelines for evaluating a client’s weight management needs. After exploring these issues, specific hypnotherapeutic strategies–such as negative accentuation and alternative means of gratification– are vividly demonstrated. This comprehensive text offers a penetrating and integrated discussion of the principles and practices of hypnosis in psychotherapy. An invaluable clinical tool for those concerned with both the theoretical and practical workings of hypnotherapy, it will be of particular interest to professionals and advanced students in the fields of psychology, medicine, and social work.
Hypnosis Suggestibility Testing (Lemon Test)
Suggestibility testing is explained by Steve G. Jones, clinical hypnotherapist. The traditional lemon test is used to demonstrate the power of words and to give you a hypnotic hypnosis pre-qualifying test which determines suggestibility. This test was done in a informal setting while having fun. This demonstrates that you can use this test in numerous informal settings.
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Hypnotherapy in Canada?
Hi there,
I have just turned 18 and I have been hypnotising friends and folks alike for about two years. I feel it is time for me to get professional training and I would like to go into the area of hypnotherapy as a profession. I have looked at websites for programs across Canada, and so far have found many different lectures ranging from $1,200 to $6,000, and from 3 days to 3 weeks. My question is where do I go? What do I do? What kind of certification do I want? How can I get in a program which will allow me to do both stage and clinical. Are any of these just crappy, phony programs which wont help me at all? Some experienced help would be much appreciated, thanks yall.
Find out what licensure your province requires for performing hypnotherapy. that is the most important step.
What is Clinical Hypnotherapy PART 1
This video has been produced to give an insight into hypnotherapy so clients can make an informed choice about an alternative way of resolving/healing their physiological and psychological disorders. This is safe and has no side effects so why not give it a try…it’s not mumbo jumbo stuff…it really works
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Are there any good hypnotherapy training programs in the US?
I have had enormous personal success with Hypnotherapy and would like to enroll in a training program. This has proven to be enormously confusing and frustrating trying to find credible programs. It seems like there are about three or four organizations that back up training programs – National Guild of Hypnotist Examiners, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and a couple others – but they all seem to be associated with and/or founded by a person who started their own type of hypnotherapy. How is this credible? What is to stop me from creating my own style of hypnotherapy and then forming a "society" of members and defining what criteria they must meet to be part of the society? On the flip-side, many hypnotherapy programs also seem to be focused on things that seem shady to me (stage techniques, buy these CD’s) or extremely spiritual (ie past-life regressions, New Age transformations.) Are there any therapy-based, non-gimmick hypnotherapy training programs in the US?
THE therapy based hypnosis is below. There are several training institutes based on his work including these:
http://www.mhehouston.com/
http://www.drburte.com/professionals/
http://www.affinitycounselingandhypnosis.com/pages/ericksoninstitute.html
http://www.ericksoninstitute.com/
http://phxinstitute.com/