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Scientific Literature of the individual application areas with reference to hypnosis therapy and Brainspotting

Stress & Burnout & Boreout

Audio-hypnosis programs to reduce stress can positively modify inflammation parameter (IL-6) and improve coping and resilience in the face of work and life stress.
Cognitive behaviour therapy in combination with hypnosis to treat acute stress disorder point to long-term benefits compared to supportive counseling.
Practice of self-hypnosis reduces distress.
Encouraging evidence that hypnotic interventions may reduce the immunological dysregulation associated with acute stressors.

Allergies

Hypnosis can reduce bronchospasm after exercise in patients with asthma.
Study shows the efficacy of a hypnotic technique in adult asthmatics.
The effect of hypnotically induced analgesia on flare reaction of the cutaneous histamine prick test showed a mean reduction in subjectively felt pain of 71.7% compared to the baseline condition.
Hypnotherapy might benefit asthmatic patients that were inadequately controlled by drugs.

Irritable bowel

Hypnotherapy via Skype to be a good alternative treatment for people with irritable bowel syndrome when the availability of hypnotherapy is limited locally or in situations where travel is difficult.
Hypnotherapy should be considered as a possible treatment for patients with irritable bowel syndrome in primary and secondary care. Furthermore, group therapy could allow many more patients to be treated for the same cost.
Improvements in resilience after hypnotherapy for patients with irritable bowel syndrome with parallel increases in quality of life and reduced psychological distress and symptom severity.
Self-help approaches based on hypnotherapy for patients with irritable bowel syndrome could close a treatment gap and prevent chronification.
Durable effects of gut‐directed hypnotherapy are similar to those of the low FODMAP diet for relief of gastrointestinal symptoms. Hypnotherapy has superior efficacy to the diet on psychological indices.
Hypnotherapeutic and behavioral interventions are effective in treating children with long-term abdominal pain.
Gut‐directed hypnotherapy improves irritable bowel syndrome-related quality of life, is superior to supportive talks with medical treatment alone, and shows a long-term effect even in refractory irritable bowel syndrome.
Patient satisfaction with gut‐directed hypnotherapy in irritable bowel syndrome is associated with improvement of quality of life and gastrointestinal symptoms.
Research indicates that hypnotherapy is a promising intervention for irritable bowel syndrome.

Pain

Hypnosis represents a safe and valuable tool in chronic pain management of hospitalized older patients.
Brief Mindfulness Trainings and Hypnotic Suggestions led to clinically significant improvements of pain.
Women appreciated antenatal self-hypnosis training and found it to be beneficial during labour and birth.
Study shows that over half of the participants who received hypnosis reported clinically meaningful (≥ 30%) reductions in pain intensity, and they maintained these benefits for at least 6 months after treatment.
Study results indicate that a brief presurgery hypnosis intervention can be an effective means of controlling presurgical anxiety, and therefore pain, in patients awaiting diagnostic prostate cancer surgery.
Hypnosis session prior to surgery was an effective complementary method in decreasing presurgical anxiety, and it resulted in better pain control.
Hypnosis reduced postsurgery pain and distress.
The effect of hypnosis on dysmenorrhea brings women significant improvements in quality of life.
The effect of hypnotically induced analgesia on flare reaction of the cutaneous hist amine prick test showed a mean reduction in subjectively felt pain of 71.7% compared to the baseline condition.

Fears & Phobias

It has been shown that one preoperative hypnosis session is very efficient in reducing the anxiety before surgery.
These data support an initial indication of using hypnotic relaxation therapy to reduce anxiety in breast cancer survivors.
Study results indicate that a brief presurgery hypnosis intervention can be an effective means of controlling presurgical anxiety, and therefore pain, in patients awaiting diagnostic prostate cancer surgery.
Hypnosis is beneficial as an adjunct intervention to reduce anxiety in patients undergoing tooth removal.
Anxiety, depression and drowsiness decreased significantly after hypnosis in people undergoing hemodialysis.
Findings suggest that hypnosis may have use in facilitating the treatment effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy for post-traumatic stress.
Self-hypnosis improved the women’s childbirth experience.
Hypnotic communication intervention is an effective method for reducing both pain intensity and fear for women undergoing labor.
Hypnosis facilitates uncomplicated birth.
A short hypnosis intervention before a breast cancer operation can be an effective means of reducing psychological stress.

Sleep disorders

Group therapy including cognitive-behavioral elements and clinical hypnosis is a potent intervention to sustainably reduce insomniac complaints in adolescents.
Results demonstrate the effectiveness of hypnotic suggestions to specifically increase the amount and duration of deep sleep.
Results suggest that hypnotic suggestions might be a successful alternative for sleep-enhancing medication.
Study suggests that a special hypnotic relaxation treatment could be effective in helping you fall asleep faster.
Self-hypnosis produces significant positive effects on emotional stress, quality of life, sleep and mental adjustment in breast cancer patients.
Hypnosis appears to be a feasible and promising intervention for hot flashes, with a potential to improve quality of life and insomnia.
Dr. Matthew Walker

Why We Sleep: Simon + Schuster, ISBN: 978-1-5011-4432-5, 2018

Smoking cessation

Hypnotherapy is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy in improving smoking abstinence in patients hospitalized for a smoking-related illness, and could be an asset to post-discharge smoking cessation programs.
Carbon monoxide measurement as an objective therapy element in smoking cessation with hypnosis.
Group treatments are as effective as individual treatments and therefore can be seen as an alternative approach in smoking cessation using hypnosis.
Hypnosis combined with nicotine patches compares favorably with standard behavioral counseling.
Dr. Cornelie Schweizer

Das Praxisbuch der hypnotherapeutischen Raucherentwöhnung, Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH, 2018

Brainspotting

Brainspotting: Recruiting the midbrain for accessing and healing sensorimotor memories of traumatic activation

Medical Hypotheses, Franc Corrigan and David Grand, 2013

Brainspotting: sustained attention, spinothalamic tracts, thalamocortical processing, and the healing of adaptive orientation truncated by traumatic experience

Medical hypotheses, F.M. Corrigan, D. Grand and R. Raju, 2015

Brainspotting: Research and Case Studies

Brainspotting Therapy: About a Bataclan Victim

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