Hartland’s Medical and Dental Hypnosis 4th Edition 9780443072178

• Continues the level of excellence set in previous editions of Hartland
• Highly practical and accessible in its scope and approach
• Offers clear guidelines on key hypnosis techniques, plus safety considerations
• Overviews the psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, and humanistic approaches to psychotherapy for the unfamiliar reader
• Challenges traditional conceptions of hypnosis as a therapeutic medium and offers an eclectic framework based on mainstream cognitive-behavioural approaches
• Reviews all the main applications of hypnosis in medicine, dentistry and psychiatry and psychology, referring to evidence from clinical research
• Gives sample scripts which offer the reader a “springboard” to clinical practice
• Explores ethical issues in clinical practice, possible adverse effects (including the ‘recovered memory’ controversy), issues concerning lay practitioners and stage hypnosis with reference to the current literature.

From the authors:

• This future edition builds on the traditional aims and scope of the very popular and successful Hartland’s
• Includes more of a discussion of theory and research (clinical and academic) – with more informed summary of theoretical issues and a summary of evidence-based applications of hypnosis. This is important for professionals who wish to apply to their employees or funding bodies for financial assistance to train in hypnosis
• A more empirical approach, for the clinical application of hypnosis – the models that are used to justify the various uses of hypnosis are based on modern knowledge
• Eclectic therapeutic approaches – appealing for a wide range of schools but the main theoretical grounding will be “cognitive-behavioural”
• Easier to use – new structure of the topics and applications
• Anxiety, sleep, smoking, weight-loss, psychosomatic complaints, pain – applications for hypnosis for these conditions are presented in depth
• Hypnosis for areas which require highly specialist knowledge, training and experience – post-traumatic stress disorder, anorexia and bulimia nervosa, sexual abuse, severe personality disorder and others – is dealt with in summaries, giving extra references for the specialist reader
• Still an essential introductory text!