Does Hypnotherapy Work?
There are two types of people who visit this site. Phoenix area residents who know hypnosis is powerful and effective--usually
because they know someone who experienced positive results through hypnosis--and people who have outdated misconceptions about
the procedure and think it is nonsense.
In fact, if
you look hard enough you can find "information" on the Internet that says hypnosis is a sham. Yet, this flies in
the face of 50 years of solid medical and clinical research that has PROVEN that hypnotherapy can help weight loss, smoking,
irritable bowel syndrome, phobias, anxiety, depression, addictions and even relieve many of the side effects of chemotherapy!
When compared to other commonly-used treatments and approaches, it is generally been proven to be THE MOST EFFECTIVE and safest
(no side effects) way of dealing with the issue.
Here are
just a few examples of hypnotherapy endorsements taken from very well known and respected sources:
'I
should have done it years ago. It's amazing, I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.'
--Matt
Damon describing his hypnosis to stop smoking experience to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, December 2004
Hypnosis can help adult patients control other forms of pain, relieve gastrointestinal
problems, stimulate weight loss, clear up skin problems, and accelerate the healing of bone fractures and surgical wounds.
--Consumer Reports, January 2005
Hypnosis can help. A growing body
of research supports the ancient practice as an effective tool in the treatment of a variety of problems, from anxiety to
chronic pain.
--Newsweek, September 2004
Hypnosis is the most
effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.
--New
Scientist, October 1992
Hypnosis can actually help you lose weight.
--Harvard Medical
School psychotherapist Jean Fain in Oprah Magazine, August 2004
Hypnosis has gained credibility in
the past five years because of research using the latest brain imaging technology. Studies show hypnosis can help treat a
multitude of disorders.
--Business Week, February 2004
Though often denigrated as
fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses.
--Scientific
American, June 2001
With weight loss the evidence is conclusive, hypnosis does help people reduce.
--Smithsonian Magazine, March 1999
Hypnosis is not mind control. It's a naturally-occurring state
of concentration; it's actually a means of enhancing your control over your mind and your body.
--Dr. David Spiegel, Assoc. Chair of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Jane Pauley show, September
2004
In hypnosis, you can attain significant
psycho-physiologic changes.
--Dr. Daniel Handel, National Institutes of Health,
New York Times, June 2004
Hypnosis has been used in Western medicine for 150 years to treat everything from anxiety to pain, from easing the
nausea of chemotherapy to enhancing sports performance. Applications include treatment of phobias, panic, low self-esteem,
insomnia, sexual dysfunction, stress, smoking, colitis, warts, headaches and high blood pressure. --Dr. Carol Ginandes, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University Gazette
Approved as a valid treatment by the American Medical Association
in 1958, hypnotism has been increasingly accepted by the medical community. Its use for chronic pain was approved in 1996
by the National Institutes of Health.
--The Capital (Annapolis MD) April 2004
The purpose of hypnosis as a
therapeutic technique is to help you understand and gain more control over your behavior, emotions or physical well being.
--The Mayo Clinic, December 2003
Hypnosis often is used to modify behavior and overcome phobias and bad habits--it can help you
make changes that you've been unable to make otherwise.
--National Women's Health
Resource Center, November 2003
Hypnosis can have
numerous other applications besides weight loss. For instance, athletes turn to hypnosis at times to improve their performance.
Clinicians have been known to use it as therapy for victims of incest, rape and physical abuse. Hypnosis can also treat sleep
disorders, migraines, anxieties, ulcers, nausea and depression. Chose a hypnotist who is a credentialed health care provider,
like a clinical psychologist or someone with psychology counseling.
--Good Morning
America, September 17, 2005
Hypnosis seems helpful in treating addictions,
and the depression and anxiety associated with them.
--Psychology Today, September
1996
