In talking with other hypnotherapists and psychotherapists it’s clear that many have only a small range of techniques and interventions to draw upon. We believe it’s important that hypnotherapists and psychotherapists have a wide range of interventions (treatment elements) to draw upon … Continue reading
Category Archives: Pain Control
This is a brief excerpt from my book Build your Resilience (2012) about the birth of my daughter, Poppy.
Continue readingExcerpts from The Discovery of Hypnosis, The Complete Writings of James Braid, dealing with childbirth and infants.
Continue readingOn Esdaile & Hypnotic Anaesthetic”: Letter to The Medical Times (1847) Excerpt from The Discovery of Hypnosis: The Complete Writings of James Braid[This small study could be considered to show, at best, either 30% or 60% “success” for Esdaile’s Mesmeric … Continue reading
A new two-day workshop on the use of hypnosis and mindfulness for pregnancy and childbirth. Designed for both newly qualified and experienced hypnotherapists.
Continue readingThis article tries to explore ways of applying established evidence-based procedures for coping with stress (Stress Inoculation Training) to the problems of coping with stress or pain in relation to childbirth. It examines how methodologies based on basic research on stress and coping tend to emphasise elements largely overlooked in established natural childbirth methods.
Continue readingThis brief excerpt from an earlier article summarises specific examples of the main suggestions (and autosuggestions) used for coping with pregnancy and natural childbirth, derived from a survey of the hypnotherapy literature.
Continue readingThis article summarises the key points of a detailed review of research on hypnotic and non-hypnotic methods of relieving pain during childbirth by Ernest Hilgard from 1975.
Continue readingChristmas Research Snippet: Hypnotism & Babies NCH Research Snippet by Donald Robertson (I don’t normally republish these on my own blog but, to cut a long story short, I had to do it with this one to get the graph … Continue reading
This article outlines the role-taking theory of hypnosis as applied to hypnotic childbirth and describes ideas for developing hypnotic scripts.
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