Research on hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy

Schoenberger, Nancy E.

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“…Between 1976 and 2000 at least nine reviews were published examining or summarising the benefits of reports and trials such as those above (Leon, 1976;Mott and Roberts, 1979;Wadden and Anderton, 1982;Heap, 1982; Spiegel, 1983;Cochrane, 1992;Levitt, 1993;Vanderlinden and Vandereycken, 1994;Allison and Faith, 1996;Schoenberger. 2000).…”

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“…Rarely was any formal, or informal, assessment of hypnotisability employed prior to commencing therapy, but where this was measured, there appeared to be a correlation between such measurements and subsequent weight loss (Stanton, 1975;Andersen, 1985;, an exception to this being that of Deyoub (1979) who found little correlation between weight loss and the Harvard Scale assessment. Irrespective of the parameters used to assess the resulting success of hypnotherapy sessions, or the length of follow-up posthypnosis or post-weight-loss, 33 out of 43 (77%) of the papers referenced in table 1 deemed hypnosis to have been efficacious in enhancing weight loss in their obese patients.Between 1976 and 2000 at least nine reviews were published examining or summarising the benefits of reports and trials such as those above (Leon, 1976;Mott and Roberts, 1979;Wadden and Anderton, 1982;Heap, 1982; Spiegel, 1983;Cochrane, 1992;Levitt, 1993;Vanderlinden and Vandereycken, 1994;Allison and Faith, 1996;Schoenberger. 2000).…”

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Unconscious Agendas in the Etiology of Refractory Obesity and the Role of Hypnosis in Their Identification and Resolution:A New Paradigm for Weight-Management Programs or a Paradigm Revisited?

Entwistle¹,

Webb²,

Abayomi³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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Hypnosis has long been recognised as an effective tool for producing behavioural change in the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. Despite many studies from the latter half of the last century suggesting that hypnosis might also be of value in managing obesity situations, the efficacy of the hypnotherapeutic approach for weight reduction has received surprisingly little formal research attention since 2000.This review presents a brief history of early clinical studies in the use of hypnosis for weight reduction; and describes an hypnotherapeutic approach within which a combination of instructional/pedagogic, and exploratory therapeutic sessions can work together synergistically to maximise the potential for sustained weight loss. Hypnotic modulation of appetite and satiation associated peptides and hormones levels may yield additional physiological benefits in type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Between 1959 and over 40 reports were published specifically describing the use of hypnosis for weight reduction (Table 1). The studies varied in size from >100 participants (Goldstein, 1981;, through smaller trials of 20-75 patients, down to those quoting individual case studies (Hanning, 1975;Munro, 1989, ;. Amongst the earliest descriptions of use of hypnosis in a medical situation to treat obesity was Brodie (1964) who (rather contentiously) would tell his obese patients that they had the equivalent of a "fat cancer" that had been growing inside them for years and which needed removal by their learning to eat properly, through the use of his hypnotic therapy. He claimed great success with this personalised approach to treating over 525 patients, but as was the case with many of the early studies, Brodie did not employ any control group nor did he publish any numerical data to substantiate this claim, which limits severely any assessment of the true efficacy of his non-conformist approach. 2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS FOR OBESITYMost of the authors listed in table 1 employed a sociocognitive or authoritarian approach, utilising varying combinations of suggestion, imagery, anxiety reduction, aversion, covert sensitisation and self-directed programming to facilitate changes in eating habits, usually with apparent benefit in reducing weight in their subjects. However a more analytical or exploratory approach was taken by , , Munro (1989) and , with evident success also. Induction approaches were predominantly progressive relaxation or eye gaze fixation, either in groups or individually, with devices such as hand levitation being used to enhance the depth of hypnosis and hence increase the benefits of the hypnosis sessions (Goldstein, 1981). Some studies additionally taught participants self-hypnosis and/or provided hypnosis tapes for home use.It is difficult to accurately evaluate the claims made by many of these reports as only 17 out of the 43 studies listed incorporated a control cohort, and in only 9 studies were patients followed-up after their hypnosis-induced weight loss to monitor for weight regain, ...

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Unconscious Agendas in the Etiology of Refractory Obesity and the Role of Hypnosis in Their Identification and Resolution:A New Paradigm for Weight-Management Programs or a Paradigm Revisited?

Entwistle¹,

Webb²,

Abayomi³

et al. 2014

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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“…40 The role of hypnosis as an effective tool for producing behavioral changes in patients with overweight/obesity has been evaluated by old studies, most of which with methodological limits, such as a low number of participants, the lack of a control group, the high percentage of dropouts, the heterogeneity of patients, the short-term follow-up, variations in procedures and different measures of response. [40][41][42][43][44] Overall, the use of hypnosis seems to provide some additional benefit increasing over time when added to a weight reduction program, but the results are still highly controversial. Indeed, the need for more rigorous research has been emphasized by all the reviews on this topic.…”

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“…Indeed, the need for more rigorous research has been emphasized by all the reviews on this topic. [40][41][42][43][44] A rapid induction technique of hypnosis has developed some years ago. 37,39 This allows to administer behavioral and awareness recommendations in a hypnotic context in a short time interval, making this method easily applicable for trained patients in everyday life.…”

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Effects of self-conditioning techniques in promoting weight loss in patients with severe obesity: a randomized controlled trial protocol

Rahimi

Properzi

et al. 2017

Int J Clin Trials

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INTRODUCTIONThe ongoing obesity epidemics is currently a serious health concern.1 Most lifestyle interventions fail over time, and people inexorably regain the lost weight after about 6-12 months. 2-3Usually, overweight/obese individuals resume wrong lifestyle habits, such as overeating, unhealthy diets, and physical inactivity. 4 Overeating often involves loss of control and compulsive behaviors; 5 habits, time of the day, social situations, convenience, hunger/taste, mood or stress and genetics are all factors which can determine the extent and type of ABSTRACT Background: Obesity is a worldwide epidemic; most obese individuals who lose weight after lifestyle educative treatments, soon regain it. Our aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of a training to teach self-conditioning technique (self-hypnosis) added to standard care in determining weight loss compared with standard care in patients with obesity. Methods:This randomized controlled open trial will recruit 120 obese patients (BMI 35-50 Kg/m 2 ), aged 20-70 years. The control group will receive a traditional approach: diet + exercise + behavioral recommendations. The experimental group will receive self-conditioning techniques + traditional approach. Three individual sessions of hypnosis with rapid-induction techniques will be administered by trained personnel. All the participants of both groups will be assessed at three, six, nine and twelve months after randomization. The primary outcome is weight loss difference between groups at 12 months after randomization; secondary outcomes are changes in adherence to dietetic and exercise recommendations, appetite and satisfaction/well-being, waist circumference and body fat, blood pressure and blood metabolic and inflammatory variables. Conclusions:The results of this trial will assess whether a self-conditioning approach, based on self-hypnosis, is able to help participants to modulate unhealthy patterns of eating and sustain weight loss in the long term.

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“…Hypnotherapy: acute stress (Bryant, Moulds, Guthrie, & Nixon, 2005), depression (Alladin & Alibhai, 2007), PTSD (Abramowitz, Barak, Ben-Avi, & Knobler, 2008), headaches and migraines (Hammond, 2007), performance anxiety (Schoenberger, 2000;Schoenberger, Kirsch, Gearan, Montgomery, & Pastyrmak, 1997).…”

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Music performance anxiety: A clinical outcome study into the effects of cognitive hypnotherapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing in advanced pianists

Brooker

2017

Psychology of Music

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Numerous investigations into music performance anxiety have focused on the conscious mind. However, little research has focused on implicit processes for alleviation of this condition. Cognitive hypnotherapy (CH) and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), therapies which target implicit processes, were investigated in an intervention study with advanced pianists (n = 46). Participants were of mixed gender aged 18-26 years (three over 30) and were randomly assigned to a therapy or control group. The therapy groups received two interventions of either CH or EMDR during a two-week period between two concerts. Quantitative data were collected through performance assessment, the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and a self-report questionnaire (SRQ). The SRQ and a log of performance experience also allowed for qualitative assessment. Results showed that both therapy groups (but not the control) experienced a significant reduction in state anxiety post therapy and a significant improvement in performance. Trait anxiety decreased significantly below baseline levels post intervention in the EMDR group. This is an important area for future research in music psychology and has broader implications in other fields. Keywords cognition, implicit processes, intervention, state anxiety, trait anxietyCognitive anxiety is a psychological problem, the causes of which can be deeply embedded in the unconscious mind (Alladin, 2010). It exerts a negative effect on human behaviour, including music performance; the research literature validates this extensively (Kenny, 2011 Kenny, & Cooksey, 2007). Music performance anxiety (MPA) is widespread, affecting musicians of any age, instrument, amateur and professional musicians alike (Kenny, 2011) and over 60% of performing musicians experience this sometime during their lifetime (Wesner, Noyes, & Davis, 1990). Females generally exhibit higher degrees of MPA than males (Osborne & Franklin, 2002;Wesner et al., 1990) and solo performance generates higher levels of MPA than ensemble (Brugués, 2011). Music performance anxiety has been widely investigated; however, the problem still persists (Chan, 2011;Huang, 2011;Plaut, 1998;Shoup, 1995;Sloboda & Juslin, 2001;Williamon, Aufegger, & Eiholzer, 2014;Xu, 2010). The components of anxietyPerformance anxiety lies within the broad domain of social anxiety, occurring when psychological discomfort in situation-dependent states leads to anxiety (Crozier & Alden, 2005). A model of anxiety proposed by Lang, Miller, and Levin (1988) demonstrated that the combination and interplay of three factors -cognitive, physiological and behavioural -appear to be responsible for anxiety. Lang et al. (1988) maintained that anxiety is the interaction of fearful thoughts, arousal of the autonomic nervous system, and overt behavioural responses to perceived threat. Cognitive anxiety was first categorised into a two-factor structure having both trait and state components (Cattell, 1956). Traits are developed in early life and reflect residues o...

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Research on hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy

Cited by 75 publications

References 36 publications

Unconscious Agendas in the Etiology of Refractory Obesity and the Role of Hypnosis in Their Identification and Resolution:A New Paradigm for Weight-Management Programs or a Paradigm Revisited?

Unconscious Agendas in the Etiology of Refractory Obesity and the Role of Hypnosis in Their Identification and Resolution:A New Paradigm for Weight-Management Programs or a Paradigm Revisited?

Effects of self-conditioning techniques in promoting weight loss in patients with severe obesity: a randomized controlled trial protocol

Music performance anxiety: A clinical outcome study into the effects of cognitive hypnotherapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing in advanced pianists

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