American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists

This study, done at North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts, compares four ways of quitting smoking - hypnosis, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), hypnotherapy plus NRT, and abrupt cessation without other treatment (cold turkey) - and finds hypnosis to be the most effective method.

MedPage Today in the UK ran this story about using hypnosis to help relieve pain, anxiety and in 28 patients with non-cardiac, angina-like chest pain, an extremely debilitating and difficult-to-treat condition. The results numbers are quite good.

Read more:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/tb/3128

In this story on the BBC website, a hypnotist in Worthing, England has used hypnosis instead of a general anesthetic for an 83-minute hand surgery.

Here's the link (bbc.co.uk):
Man hypnotises himself before op

Well done!

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/15488461.html?page=1&c=y

Ohio.com has a story about Jessica Clements, who served as a U.S. Army staff sergeant in Iraq and was wounded with near-fatal head injuries. She uses hypnosis to manage the resulting seizures and panic attacks so effectively that she can attend University as she makes her way to a new career.

Our President, Josie Hadley, passed away on December 13, 2007, after undergoing cancer treatment for over 2 years.

Josie made a huge difference in the lives of thousands of people and in the the industry of Hypnotherapy. Her best-selling book, Hypnosis For Change published by New Harbinger Publications, was translated into 13 languages and is used around the world as a textbook in schools for hypnotherapy.

She founded the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy in 1979, where she become a community supporter, a teacher for hundreds of professional hypnotherapists over the years, and a model entrepreneur. The school has expanded staff and programs now to include medical hypnosis, classes in Spanish and Chinese, NLP and more. Her contributions to local community programs, and her pioneering public relations work, brought hypnotherapy into hospitals and medical centers all over Northern California, and have improved the stature and understanding of hypnosis in the medical community.

If you are looking for books about hypnosis in other languages, we you search for the book by title on a major Web site servicing the speech community of the language you’re looking for. Amazon, for example, has sites dedicated to Japan, Austria, Germany, and France as well as a listing of Spanish-language books.

From MedPage Today:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/tb/3128

From the story:

"MANCHESTER, England, April 20 - Hypnotherapy helped relieve non-cardiac, angina-like chest pain, an extremely debilitating and difficult-to-treat condition, according to a small study here. There is good evidence that patients with this condition and normal coronary arteries have an excellent prognosis in terms of life expectancy and that the risk of developing coronary artery disease at a later date is remarkably low, researchers wrote in a study reported online by Gut."

Be sure to read the entire story, which lists specific percentage rates of clinically tracked success.

Scott Adams has a good blog that covers many subjects in his posts. Recently, he made a post about hypnosis, and did such a fine job explaining it that several of my friends commented to me things like, "Oh, now I understand it..."

The website for the Advocate newspaper and Channel 2 News of Baton Rouge, Louisiana ran an article on local Hypnotherapist Terry Menard of Lafayette, LA. (link has gone dead)

The first paragraph of the article reads:

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Josie Hadley, Director of the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy (and current President of AAPH) is leading a group of Hypnotherapists to lend their skills in helpful ways around the community. The San Francisco Chronical talked to Hope House after one group of Hypnotherapists visited and provided deep relaxation hypnotherapy for a number of their clients.