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 to create tailored and flexible treatment plans for each client. Here’s the current list of […]
Read MorePain Control
Hypnotic pain control articles.
My Daughter’s Birth from Build your Resilience (2012)
This is a brief excerpt from my book Build your Resilience (2012) about the birth of my daughter, Poppy.
Read MoreBraid on Hypnotism, Childbirth and Infants
Excerpts from The Discovery of Hypnosis, The Complete Writings of James Braid, dealing with childbirth and infants.
Read More“On Esdaile and Hypnotic Anaesthetic” from The Complete Writings of James Braid
“On 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 anaesthesia, depending on whether subjects who acted as if suffering pain but denied feeling […]
Read MoreHypnosis & Mindfulness for Pregnancy & Childbirth
A new two-day workshop on the use of hypnosis and mindfulness for pregnancy and childbirth. Designed for both newly qualified and experienced hypnotherapists.
Read MoreStress Inoculation Training (SIT) and Childbirth
This 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.
Read MoreHypnotic Childbirth: Some Suggestions
This 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.
Read MoreErnest Hilgard on Hypnotic Pain Control during Labour
This 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.
Read MoreChristmas Research Snippet: Hypnotism & Babies
Christmas 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 to display on the NCH blog, so here it is…) For personal reasons, I’ve been […]
Read MoreSuggestions for Natural Childbirth (Role Theory)
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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