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Medical Hypnosis
Addiction
- Addiction is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté
- Dietary Addicitions, Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
- The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think, Johann Hari
Anxiety
- Conversational hypnosis may do better job
than pills for relaxing patients before surgery - Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement, Alison Wood Brooks
- How It Feels to Have a Panic Attack
Asthma
- Beliefs Can Trigger Asthma Attacks, Scientific American
- Hypnosis for Asthma and Vocal Cord Dysfunction in a Patient With Autism, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
Autoimmune Disease
- 7 Things You Should Know About Autoimmune Diseases, Sarah Klein
- American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)
- Autoimmune Disease: Genes, Infection, Environment & Gut, By Thomas Campbell, MD
- When the Body Attacks the Mind
Multiple Sclerosis
- Can Hypnosis Help Relieve the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis?
- Exploring the Experiences of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis when Self-hypnosis is Applied, Ashley Linn
Parkinson’s Disease
- Clinical Hypnotherapy Case Studies Used To Alleviate Parkinson’s Disease
Mark Barrus - Is Parkinson’s an Autoimmune Disease?
- Parkinson’s disease
- Parkinson’s disease: an autoimmune process
- Parkinson’s Disease Health Center
- Parkinson’s Disease Overview
Rheumatoid Arthritis
- An Increasing Number of Arthritis Patients Resort to Hypnosis for Pain Management
- Arthritis: Reducing pain, overcoming obstacles and leading an active life
- Placebo Effect at Work in RA Treatments
- There’s a single nerve that connects all of your vital organs — and it might just be the future of medicine
Autonomic Nervous System
- The Power of the mind & Control our Happiness, Health and Strength, Wim Hof, Iceman
Brain
- Brain Basis of Piano Performance
- Brain Facts
- Brain Injury Grief Is Extraordinary Grief, Psychology Today
- Brain reacts to psychotherapy, Science Daily
- Can the Brain Be Trained?, Erin Abner
- Can Visualizing Your Body Doing Something Help You Learn to Do It Better? Jim Lohr, Scientific American
- Israeli Brain Power Tackles Brain Disorders (audio)
- Mental Practice, Physical Therapy are Used to Improve Impaired Motor Movement After Stroke
- Missing link found between brain, immune system — with major disease implications, biologynews.net
- Tranceformation: Hypnosis in Brain and Body
Behavior Change
Binge Eating Disorder
Broken Heart
- How to mend a broken Heart, Guy Winch
Cancer
- Cancer Diagnosis: A Trauma for Patients and Doctors Alike
- Cancer Facts & Figures 2014, American Cancer Society
- Cancer Resources
- Cancer Survivor’s Guide, Neal Barnard, MD & Jennifer K. Reilly, RD
- Chemotherapy Side Effects Worksheet, American Cancer Society
- Dear every cancer patient I ever took care of, I’m sorry. I didn’t get it.
- Exercise Improves Blood Flow, Oxygen; Makes Chemotherapy Successful
- Does ‘War on Cancer’ Metaphor Cause Casualties?
- The Global Burden of Cancer 2013, JAMA Oncology
- Hypnosis for Cancer Care Over 200 Years Young
- Hypnosis in Cancer Care
- Hypnosis Used In Cancer Operations
- Hypnotic Approaches in Cancer and Palliative Care by Sylvain Néron and Daniel Handel, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- Introduction: Cancer, Phyllida Brown
- Life After Treatment
- My Own Life, Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
- No Ordinary Love, NPR Podcast
- Palliative Care – Improving Quality of Life for People with Cancer and Their Families, ASCO
- Patients With Carcinoid Syndrome Exhibit Symptoms of
Aggressive Impulse Dysregulation - Prize Honors Innovations to Improve Cancer Patient Experience, Medscape
- Psychology has important role in changing cancer landscape,
Science Daily - Randomized Controlled Trial of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Plus Hypnosis Intervention to Control Fatigue in Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Research Shows That a Healthy Diet Will Slow or Stop Most Cancers, John McDougall, M.D.
- Scientific Research
- Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography,
Caryle Hirschberg and Brendan O’Regan - Terminal Ovarian Cancer – Psilocybin Therapy
- The Science Against Meat, The Washington Post
- The Trauma of Cancer
- Using Mental Imagery and Visualisation Techniques with Cancer Patients
- Using Your Mind to Fight Cancer
- What You Should and Shouldn’t Say to Someone Diagnosed With Cancer
- When Cancer Comes to Visit
Children’s Health
- Girls are Reaching Puberty Earlier Than Ever, Joel Fuhrman
- Hypnotherapy trial reduces pain and anxiety in children with burns, University of Queensland
Counseling Therapies
ACT – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the Treatment of Persons at Risk for Long-Term Disability Resulting From Stress and Pain Symptoms: A Preliminary Randomized Trial
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Steven C. Hayes
- The Role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the Management of Behavior Maladjustment, Anxiety and Other Psychological and Organic Disorders, Richard Nongard
- The Willingness to Crave, Jonathon Bricker
Contextual Psychology
- Contextual Psychology, Dr. Richard Nongard
Dementia/Memory
- Alternative Approaches to Supporting Individuals With Dementia
- Cumulative Use of Strong Anticholinergics and Incident Dementia
- How Your Memory Works, and the Surprising Implications of Impaired Memory Function
- Hypnosis Shown To Reduce Symptoms Of Dementia
- When It Comes to Preventing Alzheimer’s, Women and Men Are
Not Created Equal - X-Rays Of The Earliest Stage Of Alzheimer’s Offer Critical Clue About How It Starts
Dental
Depression
- Could Depression Be Caused By An Infection?, NPR
- The Real Causes Of Depression Have Been Discovered, And They’re Not What You Think
Diabetes
- Guided Imagery & Diabetes, A Special Report for Practitioners
- Health Journeys Diabetes Report
- Insulin Resistance Is a Strong Predictor of Disease, By Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
- T2 Diabetes: Cured by Healthy Eating, Jane Esselstyn R.N.
- X-Rays Of The Earliest Stage Of Alzheimer’s Offer Critical Clue About How It Starts
Digestive
- The Brain-Gut Connection, John Hopkins
- Gut Feelings–the “Second Brain” in Our Gastrointestinal System, Scientific American
Efficacy
- Benefits Of Using Medical Hypnosis During Surgical Procedures, Mark Barrus
- Yes, Hypnosis Works! The Best Scientific Evidence for Hypnosis, Benjamin Schoeffler
Empathy
Emotional Health
- Emotional Detox, Michael Ellner & Alan Barsky
- Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture
- The Joy of Living Versus the Fear of Dying
- Study identifies biological mechanisms for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression, Mark Wheeler
End of Life
- 7 Practical Ways To Set Yourself Up For A Good Death
- The biochemistry of belief
- The Choices We Make for Others at the End of Life
- Death, Dying and Suffering: The Need for Medical Education Reform
- Death through the eyes of a child
- Facing Down the Biggest Fear of All, NextAvenue.org
- I Know You Love Me — Now Let Me Die
- Should I Speak Up?
- What it Really Means to Hold Space for Someone, by Heather Plett
- What People Actually Say Before They Die
- What working in a nursing home taught me about life, death, and America’s cultural values
Epigenetics
Epilepsy
- Can Clinical Hypnotherapy Be Used To Treat Epilepsy?, Mark Barrus
Exercise
- Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards, Jane E. Brody
FMS
- FMS, Melissa Roth
- IBS/Fibromyalgia Relief, Melissa Roth
Glymphatic System
- Brain may flush out toxins during sleep
- Glymphatic System, Medical News Today
- Some Things You Can Do in Your Sleep, Literally
GMO
Grief
- The best medicine? Humour can be a double-edged part of grieving
- Clinical Hypnotherapy in Grief Resolution
- Walking Through Grief, Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute
Heart Disease
- A-Whole-Food Plant-Based-Diet-Reversed-Angina
- Case Reports in Cardiology
- Shortened Telomeres in Circulating Leukocytes of
Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Healing
- 19 Factors That May Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve Naturally, SelfHACKED
- Breathe. Exhale. Repeat_ The Benefits of Controlled Breathing – The New York Times
- Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? Lissa Rankin, MD
- Just looking at someone who is sick could boost your immune system, Nicole Oran
- The healing power of the mind
- The Science Behind Miracles, Erik Vance
- Using hypnosis to accelerate the healing of bone fractures, PubMed
Health Care
- America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care, The New Yorker
- Death by Medicine
- Healthcare Proposal
- Hospital Hypnotherapist Job Description
- Leading Innovations in Prevention and Cure
Hot Flashes
Humor
Hypnosis
- Alterations in electrodermal activity and cardiac parasympathetic tone during hypnosis
- The biochemistry of belief
- Film Theory: Why Don’t We Notice All Those Editing Cuts?
- Is Hypnosis a Faster Form of Therapy?
- The medical power of hypnosis
- Refusing to imagine? On the possibility of psychogenic aphantasia. A commentary on Zeman et al. (2015)
- Science Reveals Secrets of Hypnosis
- The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
- Studying how brain responds to hypnosis
- Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances
- What’s in a name?, Research Digest
IBS
- IBS, Melissa Roth
- IBS/Fibromyalgia Relief, Melissa Roth
Immune System
- Wim Hof a.k.a. The Ice Man, Wim Hof, Iceman
Insomnia
Job Description
- Hospital Hypnotherapist Job Description, Paul Durbin
Mastermind
- The Law of Success, Napoleon Hill
- What is a Mastermind Group?, Melissa Roth
Medication non-adherence
Mindfulness
- Eight weeks to a better brain
- How Meditation Changes the Brain and Body
- How mindfulness training affects health, Carnegie Mellon University
- The Impact of an Innovative Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction Program on the Health and Well-Being of Nurses Employed in a Corporate Setting
- Master Oogway’s Awesome saying
- Mindfulness intervention boosts brain activation for healthy pleasures
- Researchers Finally Show How Mindfulness and Your Thoughts Can Induce Specific Molecular Changes To Your Genes
Music
Neuroplasticity
- 6 Basic Principles of Neuroplasticity, Debbie Hampton
- Biophotons: The Light in Our Cells, Joe Dispenza
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, Joe Dispenza
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation, Google Tech Talks
- Creative Integrative Medicine, Paul Durbin
- Dr. Gabor Mate speaking at the Neuroplasticity and Education conference – October 25, 2013
- Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind, Joe Dispenza
- From Mental Power to Muscle Power: Gaining Strength by Using the Mind
- Meditation and Neuroplasticity: Five key articles, Peter Malinowski
- Mental Practice In Music Memorization
- Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills
- Our Amazingly Plastic Brains, Norman Doidge
- Neuroplasticity, Sentis Brain Animation (video)
- The Neuroscience of Emotions (video)
- Neuroscience Online, UT Health, John H. Byrne
- Thought-Controlled Genes Could Someday Help Us Heal, Scientific American
- Thoughts on Neuroplasticity, Science-Based Medicine
- What Is the Molecular Signature of Mind–Body Interventions?
- What The Bleep
- Window of Recovery Can Reopen Following a Stroke
- You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter, Joe Dispenza
- You really can change your DNA
Nocebo
Nutrition
- 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report
- 2015 – 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
- 2015 -2020 Dietary Guidelines Say Cut Sugar, Eat More Plant Foods, Limit Meat
- Against the Grain, Michael Specter
- Are All Carbs Bad?, Linda Carney, M.D.
- Articles & Studies, Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D.
- Dean Ornish
- Dr. Esselstyn’s Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease Program
- Dr. McDougall’s Health & Medical Center
- Eating sweets forms memories that may control eating habits, Science Daily
- GMO Foods: A Potentially Disastrous Distraction, John McDougall, M.D.
- Jeff Novick
- Fasting – Back to the Future, Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
- Food and Addiction Science & Treatment Lab, University of Michigan
- Forks Over Knives
- A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss, PCRM
- Low Fat Diets Are Grossly Misrepresented, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.
- The Most Effective Health Messages
- Optimal Cholesterol Level, Michael Greger, M.D.
- Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine
- Plant based diet now recommended by Kaiser Permanente
- Plant-Based Dietitian
- Plant-based Diets, Michael Greger, M.D.
- The Science Against Meat, Ariana Eunjung Cha
- Slender For Life™ Recipes
- The Smoke and Mirrors behind Wheat Belly and Grain Brain,
John A. McDougall - Ted Talks on Plant-Based Nutrition
- T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
Osteoporosis
Pain
- 50 Shades of Pain with Dr. Lorimer Moseley, PhD
- Acute psychological stress reduces ability to withstand physical pain
- Brain processes ongoing pain more emotionally
- Brain signature of emotion-linked pain is uncovered
- Central Sensitization in Chronic Pain, PainScience.com
- Controlling Pain in Autoimmune Patients, The Institute for Functional Medicine
- Crossing fingers can reduce feelings of pain
- Easing Pain, American Psychological Association
- How much does it hurt?, John Walsh
- Hypnosis intervention for the management of pain perception during cataract surgery
- Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Therapy Help Pediatric Abdominal Pain
- Modifying pain perception is it better to be hypnotizable or feel that you are hypnotized
- Pain diaries may slow patient recovery, Science Daily
- Pain is Weird, Paul Ingraham, PainScience.com
- Pain Really Is All In Your Head, (recording) Jon Hamilton NPR
- Pain Really Is All In Your Head, (story) Jon Hamilton NPR
- The Science of Pain, TalkMiner, Allan I. Basbaum, PhD
- Self-Hypnosis for Surgery in UK in 2004
- Seven Things You Should Know About Pain Science, Todd Hargrove
- Study shows mindfulness meditation reduces pain more effectively than placebo
- Understanding Pain- What to do about it in less than five minutes
- Where Pain Lives, Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Palliative care
Placebo
- Are some people wired to fall for placebos?, PBS Newshour
- Could Open-Label Placebo Have an Analgesic Effect?, Cindy Lampner, MSLIS
- CU-Boulder study reveals how and when placebo effect works
- ‘Expensive’ placebo beats ‘cheap’ one in Parkinson’s disease: study
- The Hypnotist and the Warts, Brenna Farrell
- Knowingly taking placebo pills eases pain, study finds
- One Scholar’s Take On The Power of The Placebo, NPR Science Friday (recording)
- One Scholar’s Take On The Power of The Placebo, NPR Science Friday (transcript)
- Placebo Effect at Work in RA Treatments
- The Placebo Effect Is Getting Stronger — But Only in the U.S., Melissa Dhal
- Placebo Sweet Spot for Pain Relief Found in Brain, Neuroscience News
- Placebo Use may Open Doors to New Ways to Treat Drug Addiction, Pain Management, Bidita Debnath
Pregnancy
- Successful Treatment of Ptyalism Gravidarum With Concomitant Hyperemesis Using Hypnosis, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
Resilience
- Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, Linda Graham
- Resilience: Build skills to endure hardship, Mayo Clinic
Skin
Sleep
Spirituality
- Clinical Application of Spirituality
- Cognitive Behavioral Mindfulness Therapy
- Spirituality and Medicine
Stop Smoking
- Brains of smokers who quit successfully might be wired for success
- The New Science of How To Quit Smoking
Stress/Anxiety
- Breathing techniques can help kids relax, Mayo Clinic
- Chronic Stress Can Damage Brain Structure and Connectivity
- How stress affects your brain – Madhumita Murgia
- How the Position of Our Head and Anxiety Responses Mutually Influence One Another
- Orange Blossom, Roger Moore
- The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease, Maria Popova
- The Worry Solution: Using Your Healing Mind to Turn Stress and Anxiety Into Confidence and Happiness: A Special Interview with Dr. Martin Rossman
Supplements
Surgery
- A role for hypnosis in cataract surgery
- The hidden long-term risks of surgery: ‘It gives people’s brains a hard time’
- Mind Over Matter_ The Use of Hypnosis to Replace General Anesthesia – MedicalExpo e-Magazine
Weight Loss
Wound Healing
Additional Resources
