New Book: The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy

Announcing the new book entitled The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Hypnosis by Donald Robertson, due for publication in 2012 by Karnac. This short article provides an outline of the contents and links to pre-order online. Continue reading

Mindfulness, Metacognition and Hypnosis

In 2006, Steven Jay Lynn collaborated with the Buddhist teacher Lama Surya Das, and two other researchers, in an attempt to explore the possibility of combining elements of Buddhist mindfulness meditation practice, cognitive therapy, and hypnosis, drawing on recent research in cognitive psychology. This post briefly summarises and comments upon their article. Continue reading

New: Self-Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Taster Workshop

You can now book immediately online for our new self-hypnosis taster workshop, simply by paying a small (£20) deposit to reserve your place securely online. The College will then invoice you for the remainder. This can either be taken as a stand-alone workshop or used as the first day of our certificate or diploma training in hypnotherapy. Continue reading

Hypnotherapy for Smoking Cessation: What Works and What Doesn’t

This short article discusses the wide variation in results from hypnosis for smoking cessation and the inadequacy of scripted direct suggestion and hypnotic age regression methods compared to multi-component approaches, i.e., cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy. Continue reading