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Meta-analyses have shown that hypnosis increases the effectiveness of psychotherapy substantially. This book provides clinicians with methods for using hypnosis to enhance the outcome of empirically validated treatments. Clinical hypnosis and cognitive-behavioural therapies have much in common. Hypnotic procedures inspired some of the first behavioural therapies, and the effectiveness of both have been demonstrated empirically. Nevertheless, most guides to clinical hypnosis are based on psychodynamic or Ericksonian perspectives. This book conversely contains chapters by prominent cognitive-behavioural scholars in the field of hypnosis, as well as a chapter by Arnold Lazarus, a founder of behavioural and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy. The chapters on suggestibility modification present the full text of the Carleton Skill Training Programme, a researched procedure for enhancing responsiveness to suggestion. The book also offers an introduction to Salvador Amigo's self-regulation therapy, which is based on a suggestibility modification programme. Readers who wish to expand their hypnosis skills should find this a useful source of information.
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 Nothing Exceptional, February 24, 2001
By Bob (Tennessee)
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There is a variety of information included from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, but it still seems quite lacking. After reading the book, I found myself still irritated at the constant semantic arguments. Constantly being told what hypnosis isn't, without real strength of what it is, just left me irritated. While my leanings are not in the cognitive-behavioral direction, I usually read it all anyways, as I am open to information which might be of value, regardless of how it affects my present understandings. But just give me the facts! Too many of the articles spent more time on these semantic arguments than they did giving facts. Also, proving something can be replicated in another way doesn't mean that it is the same, merely showing more than one way to skin a cat. Kirsch's Casebook of Clinical Hypnosis is a fairly good option instead of this, and Kirsch is a person I respect and admire, but most will probably be better served with another choice, unless specific articles in the book appeal to them
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