The ISH Education & Training with chairmen Dr. Enayat Shahidi worked hard to provide ISH members and Constituent Society members the possibility to learn from and with the expert within the hypnosis society. The registration will open soon and you will get informed as soon as it does. Please find an overview of the workshop…
One of the core projects of ISH the last 10+ years is our work to get a higher recognition of WHO for the use of hypnosis in medicine and therapy. Our BOD member Giuseppe de Benedittis, MD PhD, used his excellent contacts to WHO to get closer to be successful. Here you find the „White…
Dear ISH members: I am very happy to report that our new Board of Directors has begun to work on many initiatives for ISH for the next three years. First, have identified the chairs of our numerous committees and groups who will be leading these initiatives. They include both regular standing comittees that are specified…
A letter from Bernhard Trenkle (Immediate Past-President) and Mark Jensen (President) Dear ISH members : We are writing this president’s column together as we transition smoothly from one presidency to another, having worked closely together over the last three years (as president and president-elect), and looking forward to continuing to work closely together over the…
Essay by: Atanas Tannous INTRODUCTION One of the leading theoretical approaches of hypnosis describes it as a special state of consciousness in which certain normal human capabilities are heightened while others fade into the background. About 90 percent of the population has some ability to enter a hypnotic state. Hypnosis can be combined with any…
by Magdolna Bene From the 1950’s there is evidence from case reports that the use of hypnotherapy can be appropriate in stroke rehabilitation (Shires, Peters & Krout, 1954). Crasilneck and Hall (1970) found that hypnotic intervention helps the rehabilitation of patients through reinforcing not only the functional ability, but also their motivation for recovery. The…
by Eiler Annamária. INTRODUCTION Hypnotherapy is one of the oldest treatment methods of traumas in the history of psychology. Though its therapeutic value was already discovered by Freud, it was first widely utilized in the treatment of veterans coming back from Vietnam and struggling with the aftermath of the horrors of war (Ibbotson, 2012). The…
BUILDING BRIDGES OF UNDERSTANDING CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF RESEARCH FINDINGS In each section of the NL we introduce you to a summary of recent research with short and easy explanations of some research concepts. Scientific reports are more and more complex and complicated; only a small portion of hypnosis experts enjoy them. For the majority of…
