ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to provide a detailed account of cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy that integrates "nonstate" or "cognitive-behavioural" theories of hypnosis with techniques assimilated from hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). The aim has been to do so in a more rigorous manner than previous books on the subject, and to draw on more contemporary research and clinical literature in the fields of hypnosis and CBT. Based on the hypnosis research of Barber and others in cognitive-behavioural tradition, a "problem-orientation" model of hypnosis has been proposed that identifies five elements of the hypnotic mind-set. This draws on the notion of the hypnotic subject as an active agent and a problem-solver, who selects strategies to help her enact hypnotic responses with a degree of perceived automaticity. This model is inherently "metacognitive" insofar as the attitudes and expectations requisite to hypnotic responding primarily relate to certain cognitions themselves.
