Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis, 4e

541 Pages·2001·3.56 MB·English

FOURTH EDITION
HARTLAND'S
Michael Heap
Kottiyattil IC Aravind
Foreword by
Peter B. Bloom
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JOHN HARTLAND (1901-1977)
Most of the tributes to John Hartland on his death in 1977 bore witness to
his personal qualities - warmth, energy and enthusiasms, ranging from
classical music, photography, football, the detective novel to the wines of
France - before describing his contribution in establishing the credentials
of hypnotherapy as a branch of psychosomatic medicine and in rendering
it more accessible to general medical and dental practitioners. Indeed, his
personality had much to do with his own success as a therapist, together
with his extraordinary care for verbal suggestion techniques: he took
permanent delight in the richness and rhythms of the English language.
He thought later that he owed much to 30 years' experience in general
medicine practice in West Bromwich, in the heart of the 'Black Country'
of the English industrial Midlands, among a people for whom he felt
great affection.
His commitment to psychiatry came, however, from frustration at
being denied the opportunity to leave general medicine. This was in
1939 when at the outbreak of war he volunteered for the Royal Navy. He
was told to stay where he was. The industrial Midlands were likely to
be bombed. He turned his energies to the organization of an air raid post,
to the raising of morale and money for military charities through the
writing and production of musical revues, to the Red Cross, and - through
curiosity in the phenomena of hypnosis - to psychiatry.
After the war he combined full-time general medicine with a hospital
appointment as consultant psychiatrist and a growing private psychiatric
practice. He began to lecture and demonstrate, first in Britain, then in the
United States, France, Sweden, Australia and Singapore; was a driving
force in the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis; and edited the
British Journal of Medical Hypnosis. The turning-point was the publication of
his paper on "ego-strengthening technique" in the United States in the
early 1960s. One of the greatest rewards of his travels to the United States
was his friendship with Milton Erickson.
Nothing would have given him greater satisfaction today than to know
that his book, which first appeared in 1966, is still valued and thought
worthy of a fourth edition.
Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis
The late David Waxman, editor of the third edition
Founder and First President of the section for Medical and Dental
Hypnosis of the Royal Society of Medicine; Past President of the
European Society for Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic
Medicine; Past President and Founder Fellow of the British Society of
Medical and Dental Hypnosis; Past Vice President of the British Society
of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis; Past Affiliate of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists; Founder Fellow of the International Society of
Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Formerly Associate
Specialist in Psychiatry, Central Middlesex Hospital, London.
For Churchill Livingstone:
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Hartland's Medical and
Dental Hypnosis
Michael Heap BSc MSc PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Wathwood Hospital. Rotherham, UK
Kottiyattil K. Aravind
MBBS FRcs
General Medical Practitioner, Rotherham. UK
FOURTH EDITION
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Contents
Extracts from the forewords to the second and third editions xi
Foreword to the fourth edition by Peter B. Bloom xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xxi
SECTION 1 The history and nature of hypnosis
1. Overview of the history of hypnosis 3
2. The nature of hypnosis: suggestion and trance 15
3. Hypnotic susceptibility and its measurement 29
4. Theories of hypnosis 41
SECTION 2 Basic procedures in clinical hypnosis
5. Preparation for clinical hypnosis 61
6. Hypnotic induction and deepening procedures:
first approach 67
7. Hypnotic induction and deepening procedures:
second approach 83
8. Further ethical matters and precautions during the
preparation phase of hypnosis 97
9. Self-hypnosis 101
10. Variations in style: permissive, indirect and alert
approaches 107
11. Suggestion, posthypnotic suggestion and
ego-strengthening in therapy 121
12. Behavioural techniques for self-control 135
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13. Metaphor and story technique 143
14. Basic procedures with children 155
SECTION 3 The application of hypnotic procedures in
psychological therapy
15. Orientation to the psychotherapies and the concept of a
'working model' 173
16. Introduction to psychodynamic and humanistic approaches 183
17. Ericksonian approaches to psychotherapy 193
18. The unconscious mind and the repression of memories 201
19. Hypnotic procedures in psychodynamic therapy 217
20. Behaviour therapy: an introduction and the application of
hypnosis 255
21. Cognitive therapy: an introduction 271
22. An eclectic approach to psychotherapy augmented by
hypnosis 283
23. Risks, precautions and contraindications 287
SECTION 4 The application of hypnosis to specific medical,
dental and psychological problems
24. Hypnosis for smoking cessation, weight reduction and
insomnia 295
25. Hypnosis in the treatment of psychosomatic problems 323
26. Hypnosis and pain 347
27. Hypnosis and cancer 365
28. Hypnosis in obstetrics and gynaecology 379
29. Hypnosis in dentistry 397
30. Hypnosis for anxiety disorders 411
31. Hypnosis in the treatment of miscellaneous psychological
problems and disorders 435
32. Medical and psychological problems in children and
adolescents 457
CONTENTS ix
SECTION 5 The professional practice of hypnosis
33. Evidence for the benefits and the adverse effects of hypnosis 473
34. Issues in professional practice 491
Appendix I Clinical hypnosis and memory 501
Appendix II Ethical guidelines of the International
Society of Hypnosis 505
Index 509