Essays on Hypnotherapy

Attitudes and Beliefs of Hypnosis amongst Mental Health Professionals and the Impact on the Availability of Hypnosis Training in Counseling Training Programs

Abstract

Nine out of ten general practitioners are approached by their patients for information regarding alternative and complementary therapies, including hypnotherapy, and three out of four GPs provide referalls for hypnotherapy (Hall & Giles-Corti, 2000). A minority of healthcare providers, however, has ever received formal education and training in hypnosis, and a majority relies on lay information from the media and other non-authoritative sources to form its opinions about the merits or demerits of hypnotherapy. Mental healthcare standards dictate ...

Misconception Diary: Brain Myths

I feel that there are so many things about this lecture that showed me that I have many misconceptions about the brain. I am not sure if I can really just pick one misconception about the brain. One of these misconceptions would be the brain may need to grow or get rid of synaptic connections between the neurons. I would never think that the brain would need to lose these connections in order to learn something. I always imagined that the brain would get bigger and stronger with an intelligent person. I don’t know why I have this ...

Bulimia nervosa, or simply bulimia, is an eating disorder, characterized by two main symptoms: irresistible food addiction followed by attempts to get rid of the consumed food. People suffering from bulimia tend to either vomit the food they’ve eaten, or take laxatives (in some cases both methods are used); some of them do excessive exercise after eating or start water fasting. Studies show that most people with bulimia are having normal weight (Bulik et al. 6). However, they are not able to adequately evaluate their body, have low self-esteem, desperately want to lose weight. In case of bulimia ...

Hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy is a psychological state or a trance-like state in which one has heightened concentration and focus. Normally, hypnosis uses intense concentration, guided relaxation and focused attention to attain an enhanced state of awareness which is sometimes known as a trance. When in this state, the person’s attention is focused to an extent that, everything in motion around that person is ignored or temporarily blocked out. With the help of a health professional such as a trained therapist, people can focus their attention in this naturally occurring state. Notably, being hypnotized is characterized by relaxation, concentration, expectation, and suggestion. ...

Hypnosis

One’s perception of hypnosis often includes the idea of people charmed to do things while under a state of trance which can be either comedic or appalling in nature. This perception is often fueled by media titles with themes like sci-fi, fantasy, and even horror as these themes would show how hypnosis is done to remove one’s free will or bring one into a state wherein he finds himself in his own world while his body performs mechanically. While these media descriptions of hypnosis is somehow true given hypnosis’ definitions, many are left unaware as to the true nature ...

Hypnosis, is an interesting part of psychology. Usually, under the hypnotherapy, which is similar to trance, people feel completely relaxed and calm with their focus and concentration heightened. Hypnotherapy allows the hypnotist to influence the subconscious of the person by means of the suggestions which are implemented by verbal repetition and certain mental images. There is no consensus on how hypnosis works between the scientists for more than two hundred years, moreover, the science cannot explain this phenomenon completely either. There is a lot of information in the Mass media and social media on what a person is capable of doing ...

Hypnosis, is a state, very similar to trance, in which your focus and concentration are heightened. Hypnotherapy is usually performed by a therapist with the help of verbal repetition and specific mental images. Once you have entered this state - you are completely relaxed and calm, furthermore, you are more open to suggestions and influence. People have been arguing for over 200 years, about how hypnosis works, but even science can not explain this phenomenon exactly. Many of us have seen what a person is capable of doing under hypnosis, but why he actually does it, remains a mystery. Secret, the disclosure of ...

Research Paper on Weight Loss Strategies

Research Paper on Weight Loss Strategies

Introduction

People who want to lose weight often think that exercising too much will lead to weight loss. What they do not understand is that exercise helps in losing weight when accompanied by a good diet program. When an individual eats a lot after completing an exercise routine, regardless if one vigorously exercises, losing weight will be difficult. Thus, is one really wants to lose weight, then the individual must adhere to various weight loss strategies to ensure one does not gain excessive weight during the training program.

Why is losing weight a societal concern? Considering the ...

Hypnosis. When many people think of it, they imagine it as a fun and entertaining activity for a party along with magicians, comedians, and karaoke. They think of it as a tool that unscrupulous characters employ, like the antique dealer in the 1991 movie Dead Again who used it to regress people to remember past lives so he could locate and steal heirlooms. In spite of hypnosis’s popular reputation as entertainment or as a tool of quacks and dodgy characters, in reality it is a valuable therapeutic method employed to help with a variety of problems such as ending harmful personal habits like smoking ...

Response to Question 1: How Aggressiveness personality trait develops in humans. Where the theorist say it comes from

In his perspective of personality, Carl Rodgers acknowledges that all organisms live in the environment enduring experiences that are continuously changing. Organisms react to the environment in which they are based. As individuals interact with the environment and phenomena, a part of the perceptual field is shaped and translates into self. As such, the interactions with the environment create the allowance for the interactions, which are evaluated and incorporated into the structures of self. Structures of the self can be perceived as an organized, dynamic but consistent perceptual pattern that carries the concepts that define an individual. For every field ...

Development Through Operant or Classical Conditioning

Phobias and Addictions: Development Through Operant or Classical Conditioning How and why phobias and addictions develop are a continual area of research for psychologists and their colleagues in related fields. While many theories exist as to why people have phobias or become addicted, including genetic predisposition and others, the roles of classical conditioning and operant conditioning in the conditions of phobias and addictions is an important area to explore because it provides more information on why the conditions exist and new possibilities in treatment. Phobias can be developed through classical conditioning and addictions can be developed through operant ...