tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71351977577858912672024-03-08T02:34:11.933-05:00Better Horizon Mental Health & HypnotherapyThe primary goal is to offer suggestions, tips and information for anyone who is interested in understanding what hypnotherapy can do for them in helping manage issues they might find in everyday life. These are topics for everyone! From parents, students, dieters, travelers, nurses, teachers -- you name it.Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-84076671034592912892017-01-19T20:12:00.000-05:002017-01-19T20:12:18.727-05:00Stylish CharactersWell Folks,<br />
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I'm starting to get hip deep in the representative shows that were televised on TV.<br />
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First off, what is up with pinky rings? Perry Mason, Paul Drake and every character wear these big blocky rings. They have a stone the size of a quarter, and they wear it on their cigarette smoking hand.<br />
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These rings are so clunky, they would get stuck in a revolving door! I must admit, that they are a welcome addition to their dark drab suits and skinny dark ties. Don't they say that accessories make the outfit? In mens styling, they sure do.<br />
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As we move into the sixties, Mannix is the archetype of the start of the sixties cool. Since he's an iconoclast and a contrarian, he sets the tone. He wears a suit to the office, but no tie. He investigates wearing a glen plaid sport coat and oxford button down. Since every character is wearing brogues, wingtips or cordovans, Mannix, our contrarian, is walking the ground wearing loafers. Not slip ons, but loafers. Basic black, no adornments and in need of a shine.<br />
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For his off hours down time, Mannix wears typical lounge wear. He's got on a mustard green mock turtle, made of banlon, brown suede safari jacket, with required epaulets. Frankly, he looks more formal than if he was going to the office. Here's something else I noticed. His shirt cuffs. They were very cool. They weren't the typical barrel style, or french cuff. They were like a modified french - barrel cuff. They were extended tabs over the cuff. The best way I can describe it would be they formed a "T". I have never seen a cuff type like this before. Very, very, cool.<br />
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The producers of the show also allow you into the private world of the Mannix character. During his off hours, we get to see his apartment, which is done up in beautiful olive green carpet (NOT!), gold trim, fake cherry wood, wood slat blinds and of course plastic seat covers. Thank the Lord that he still has his fully stocked rolling bar, Barcalounger and 21 in. color RCA, Magnavox or Philco TV console.<br />
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So far, the early and mid sixties are starting to rev it up. Can't wait to get into the Summer of Love, in this the winter cold!Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-57334020052721438682017-01-14T12:44:00.000-05:002017-01-14T12:44:25.873-05:00IBS - A Complementary Medicine Alternative<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hypnotherapy has in fact been proven successful at reducing or even eliminating most Irritable Bowel Syndrome symptoms.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This is based on over 15 years of scientific research that has demonstrated hypnosis to be an effective, safe and relatively inexpensive choice as a therapy.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It has been so overwhelmingly successful in this regard that the chair </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">of the National Women's Health Network in Washington, DC, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD, has said that hypnosis should be the treatment of choice for Irritable Bowel Syndrome cases which have not responded to conventional therapy. Since the "conventional therapy" offered to most IBS patients ranges from doing nothing at all to a lifetime prescription of semi-effective anti-spasmodic drugs, this statement is the closest thing to an endorsement that an alternative and complementary therapy can get relief.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, one of hypnotherapy's greatest benefits is its well-established ability to reduce the effects of stress. Your state of mind can have a direct impact on your physical well-being, even when you're in the best of health. If you're struggling with IBS, the tension, anxiety, and depression that comes from living with an incurable illness can actually undermine your immune system and further compromise your health. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hypnosis can effectively reduce stress and its negative impact by placing you in a deeply relaxed state, which can effectively promote positive thoughts, develop personal coping strategies, and manage most negative attitudes. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Irritable Bowel Syndrome in fact is almost uniquely suited to treatment by hypnosis or self-hypnosis, for several reasons. First, as just noted, stress-related attacks can be significantly reduced. Second, one of the most impressive aspects from hypnotherapy, and of tremendous benefit to IBS sufferers, is its well-documented ability to manage virtually all types and degrees of pain.</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Finally, because most IBS is more of a syndrome, relief and symptom management can be developed. The underlying causes may still be present but if you manage your bodily sensations appropriately with the right messaging, you will be able to have control of the symptoms. This outcome is a definite possibility from hypnotherapy treatments. </span><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">As with other alternative therapies, though there is solid evidence that hypnotherapy can provide lasting health benefits for many patients, there is uncertainty about precisely how and why the treatments work. Most scientists believe that hypnotherapy acts upon the unconscious, and affects the body's regulation of involuntary reactions that are normally beyond a person's control. Hypnosis puts these autonomic responses under the patient's power. Happily, treatment focuses in on gut-specific imagery</span><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and there are no risks or side effects. </span></span>Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-41256032133409032662012-05-21T13:40:00.002-04:002012-05-21T13:40:49.501-04:00Comments on Mental Health and Hypnosis<br />
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<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">Hypnosis -- or hypnotherapy -- uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a "trance". The person's attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. In this naturally occurring state, a person may focus his or her attention -- with the help of a trained therapist -- on specific thoughts or tasks.</span></h2>
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How Does Hypnosis Work?</h3>
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Hypnosis is usually considered an aid to psychotherapy (e.g., counseling or simply therapy), rather than a treatment in itself. It helps with psychotherapy because the hypnotic state allows people to explore painful thoughts, feelings, and memories they might have hidden from their conscious minds. In addition, hypnosis enables people to perceive some things differently, such as managing their awareness of pain.</div>
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Hypnosis can be used as a suggestion therapy.</div>
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What Are the Benefits of Hypnosis?</h3>
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The hypnotic state allows a person to be more open to discussion and suggestion. It can improve the success of other treatments for many conditions, including:</div>
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Are there Drawbacks of Hypnosis?</h3>
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Hypnosis might not be appropriate for a person who has psychotic symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, or for someone who is using drugs or alcohol. It should be used for pain management only after a physician has evaluated the person for physical disorder that might require medical or surgical treatment.</div>
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As a therapist I <b>do not</b> use hypnosis to recover repressed memories that they believe are linked to a person's mental disorder. However, hypnosis may also pose a risk of aiding to create false memories. This can occur as a result of unintended suggestions by any therapist. For this reason, the use of hypnosis for certain mental disorders, such as dissociative disorders, remains controversial. As a result, I agree with this position. </div>
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In my opinion, hypnosis is not a dangerous procedure. It is not mind control or brainwashing. A therapist cannot make a person do something embarrassing or that the person doesn't want to do. The greatest risk, as discussed above, is that false memories can be created.</div>
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<b>Hypnosis is performed by a licensed or certified mental health professional who is specially trained in this technique. A Ch.t or any other "title", is not a state licensed mental health professional.</b></div>
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</div>Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-50843918344904060072011-10-06T12:29:00.000-04:002011-10-06T12:29:10.643-04:00Tips On How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking & Shyness<div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many years ago I was so fearful of speaking in public, I would freeze up in an instant.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My stomach churned, my face became hot, my hands clammy, my voice choking. Similar symptoms occurred when I became a teaching fellow. Imagine 80 sets of eyes staring right on you!</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish I could tell you that hypnosis (more accurately, hypnotherapy) cured my condition back then, but fortunately it was decades later I learned about the value of this technique and its value in helping others.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's look at some of the symptoms of the condition. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">A person’s symptoms may range from being unable to speak to strangers to a full-blown phobia that completely isolates the sufferer psychologically or even physically (as in the case of an agoraphobic).</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyday fear of public speaking and being shy contains three related elements:</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- physiological signs such as blushing<br />
- negative thoughts such as “everyone is looking at me”<br />
- bad feelings such as shame, anxiety and loneliness.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These elements often result in avoidance behavior.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This behavior frequently causes non-shy people to label the shy person as “stuck up” or “aloof” thus completing the self-defeating circle and reinforcing the shyness.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are some of the causes of this type of behavior. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">A person may be shy because of a traumatic experience, family background or culture. Extreme shyness may be environmentally driven.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lack of experience in social situations, perceived isolation experiences as a child in a home or community can contribute to shyness. Low self-esteem can arise from these life experiences can leave you vulnerable to shyness as an adult.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we cope with this shyness? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Unfortunately, the most common way of coping is avoidance. Avoidance of places and people who arouse the anxiety within a person that causes them to feel shy.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anxiety can be most evident when we are asked to speak in public. Yikes!</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coping with that (very common) form of shyness requires changing your thoughts and to let go of the terrifying fear of rejection.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can Hypnosis help me through this issue? Cognitive </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for shyness involves exposure to the fear-inducing person or place. Thus you eventually became immune to shyness when speaking in front of people.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes, drugs are prescribed for some forms of shyness, especially those which include high levels of anxiety. However, reducing the anxiety with drugs only acts as for the moment, with no long term help.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Clearly, the safest route to cure shyness is the hypnotic route. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">There are two main ways hypnosis is used to overcome shyness: suggestive and analytical. Let's see how these work.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This involves you, while in hypnosis, imagining yourself calm, confident and at ease in situations that previously had you feeling shy.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coupled with powerful post-hypnotic suggestions this approach can result in a swift disappearance of the discomfort of shyness and fear.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Positive Suggestion Hypnosis often also incorporates techniques from different aspects of psychology.</span></div><div align="justify" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">The second way of using hypnosis is to get to the root cause(s) of your shyness. And then, of course, dealing with them. While the fact of you having no siblings, or coming from another culture or being ignored as a child for instance, cannot be changed, your perceptions and therefore your thoughts, behavior and feelings can.</span></div><div align="justify" style="padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">This approach takes an investment of time and funds. Hypnotherapy as the primary approach can be an efficient way to manage these feelings. Isn't it better to feel good? I would say it's so. </span></div>Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-88610370028876123382011-06-21T12:38:00.000-04:002011-06-21T12:38:02.192-04:00Benefits of Hypnosis<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;">Hypnosis has countless uses in psychotherapy, psychiatry and various medical specialties. The use of hypnotic techniques by the helping professions has increased steadily in recent years, because hypnosis is gaining widespread acceptance as a safe, reliable, effective and comfortable alternative or adjunct to other, more traditional methods. In the modern climate of skyrocketing health care costs, hypnosis is also proving invaluable as an aid in speeding recovery from physical and mental problems.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;">It finally earned formal recognition as a valuable tool in health care in 1958, when the Council on Mental Health of the American Medical Association recommended that instruction in hypnosis be included in medical school curricula. Hypnosis was similarly embraced several years later by the American Psychological Association. Thousands of psychologists, dentists, and physicians in various specialties now have thorough training in hypnotic methods within their specialty areas. Professional organizations in clinical hypnosis provide extensive training and continuing education in hypnosis, and provide their members with specific ethical guidelines for the professional use of hypnosis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">WHAT HYPNOSIS CAN DO FOR YOU</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;">There are many good reasons to seek the services of medical professionals or psychotherapists skilled in the use of hypnosis. In psychotherapy, hypnotic techniques are effective in speeding the process of therapy. Hypnosis is used effectively to facilitate patients' understanding of themselves or their problems, extinguish unfortunate habits, reduce anxiety and fears, and develop a new and more adaptive outlook.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;">In medicine and health psychology, hypnosis is used to effectively treat such conditions as irritable bowel syndrome, help manage and reduce pain and discomfort associated with medical procedures (e.g., dental surgery), where anesthesia cannot be used effectively.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;">It is also used to treat chronic pain and psychosomatic problems and counter unhealthy habits that contribute to illness, such as smoking and binge eating.</span></div></span>Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135197757785891267.post-51069170844394360402011-06-13T16:37:00.000-04:002011-06-13T16:37:34.173-04:00Selecting A Qualified Hypnotherapist<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: black; font: small 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">As in choosing any health care professional, care should be exercised in selecting a hypnotherapist. Hypnosis and the use of hypnotic therapies are not regulated in most states, and hypnotherapists are, in most cases, not state licensed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">Lay hypnotists are people who are trained in hypnosis but lack medical, psychological, dental or other professional health care training. A lay hypnotist may be certified and claim to have received 200 or more hours of training, but licensed health care professionals typically have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px;">seven to nine years of university coursework, plus additional supervised training in internship and residency programs.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">Their hypnosis training is in addition to their social work, medical, psychological, or dental training. Careful questioning can help you avoid a lay hypnotist who may engage in fraudulent or unethical practices.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: underline;">Please note a C.ht is not a NY State approved professional license</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">Ask if the person is licensed (not certified) in their field by the state. If they are not legitimately licensed, they probably lack the education required for licensure. Find out what their degree is in. If it is in hypnosis or hypnotherapy, rather than a state-recognized health care profession, the person is a lay hypnotist.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">Check for membership in the American Psychotherapy Association, as well as membership in the National Association of Social Workers, the American Psychological Association, American Medical Association, the American Dental Association. Contact a state or local licensing component section to see if the person is reputable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 16px; margin: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18px;">If you have doubts about their qualifications, keep looking</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">.</span></div></span>Dr. Charles J. Epsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201995317594246562noreply@blogger.com0