ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis explores and clarifies the challenge of defining what hypnosis is and how best to integrate it into treatment.

It contains state-of-the-art neuroscience, cutting-edge practice, and future-oriented visions of clinical hypnosis integrated into all aspects of health and clinical care. Chapters gather current research, theories, and applications in order to view clinical hypnosis through the lens of neurobiological plasticity and reveal the central role of hypnosis in health care. This handbook catalogs the utility of clinical hypnosis as a biopsychosocial intervention amid a broad range of treatment modalities and contexts. It features contributions from esteemed international contributors, covering topics such as self-hypnosis, key theories of hypnosis, hypnosis and trauma, hypnosis and chronic pain management, attachment, and more.

This handbook is essential for researchers, clinicians, and newcomers to clinical hypnosis, in medical schools, hospitals, and other healthcare settings.

Chapters 4, 35, and 63 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

part Section I|225 pages

The Roots of Contemporary Clinical Hypnosis

chapter 1|15 pages

Brief History of World Hypnosis

chapter 2|17 pages

On the Hard Process of Understanding Hypnosis

Epistemological Issues in the Debate Between State, Trait, and Hypofrontality Theories

chapter 5|16 pages

Attachment and Hypnosis

Revisiting Our Evolutionary Past to Reconstruct Our Future

chapter 6|16 pages

Mind, Self, and Hypnosis

A Relational Theory

chapter 7|19 pages

From Phenomenology to Noetic Analysis

The Use of Quantitative First-Person Self-Reports to Better Understand Hypnosis

chapter 9|16 pages

The Foundation of an Ecological Model of Hypnotherapy

The Base for Defining the Structural Dimensions of Hypnotherapy

chapter 11|11 pages

Rapid Hypnotic Inductions

chapter 12|10 pages

Self-Hypnosis

chapter 13|10 pages

Hypnosis

A Developmental Perspective

part Section II|194 pages

The Neuroscientific Foundations of Hypnosis

part Section III|313 pages

Clinical Hypnosis in Practice

chapter 31|11 pages

Eating Disorders

Using Hypnotic Techniques and Rapport to Treat Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa

chapter 33|15 pages

Systemic Hypnosis

How to Develop and Use Systemic Trances with Couples and Families

chapter 34|13 pages

A Systemic View

Hypnosis to Solve Problems of Overweight and Obesity

chapter 46|10 pages

Hypnosis in Surgery

The Social-Psycho-Biological Model of Surgical Hypnosis

chapter 48|10 pages

Bleeding, Hemostasis

Suggestive Techniques

chapter 50|13 pages

Hypnosis in the Intensive Care Unit

Utilization of the Superorganismic Connection State

part Section IV|182 pages

Frontiers of Hypnosis