by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
A brief review is presented of hemispheric specialization for different cognitive modes, and of the symptoms that follow disconnection of the two hemispheres by commissurotomy. Our present knowledge of the hemispheres’ cognitive specialization and potential for...
by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
Twenty-eight 7-12-year-old children entered a controlled study of the effects of self-hypnosis on asthma. Asthma belief and behavioural inventories were collected before, and at one and two years after intervention. Asthma diaries were kept daily and mailed monthly....
by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
“Of all the conditions which present themselves for treatment under hypnosis, the treatment of asthma, to my mind, yields the most gratifying results, particularly with children, and I believe that were hypnosis in general practice to be restricted to the...
by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
“At the present time it appears that there are several problems in which hpnosis is an acceptable and perhaps preferable method of anesthesia. Some of these problems include cases in which chemical analgesics and depressants are contraindicated or dangerous...
by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
This study evaluated the effects of a Cognitive Experiential Therapy (CET)–in the past referred to as Rational Stage Directed Hypnotherapy–Cognitive Restructuring (CR), Hypnosis Only (HO), and a no-treatment control condition on the duodenal ulcer...
by Joe | Feb 19, 2016
NOTES 1: Compared Behavior Therapy (BT), self-relaxation (SR), transcendental meditation (TM), and a waiting-list control group (WL) on measures of cardiovascular and subjective stress response. Male and female respondents (N = 60) to an ad for therapy were evaluated...