Postpartum depression is experienced by 10-15% of women who give birth (Bloch, Rolenberg, Koren, & Klein, 2006). This disorder causes maternal distress and has been significantly associated with infant and child developmental problems (Carter, Garrity-Rokous, Chazan-Cohen, Little, & Briggs-Gowan, 2001). Once believed to be contraindicated (Crasilneck & Hall, 1985), hypnosis for depressive disor...

BACKGROUND Gut-directed hypnotherapy can reduce IBS symptoms, but the mechanisms underlying this therapeutic effect remain unknown. AIM To determine the effect of hypnotherapy and educational intervention on brain responses to cued rectal distensions in IBS patients. METHODS Forty-four women with moderate-to-severe IBS and 20 healthy controls (HCs) were included. Blood oxygen level dependen...

Few drugs are of proven efficacy in irritable bowel syndrome. Bulking agents probably relieve constipation, spasmolytics may alleviate pain and antidiarrhoeals help control urgency and diarrhoea. With a combination of reassurance and therapeutic intervention up to 75% of patients can be expected to improve. For the 25% who do not, alternative therapies such as stress management, psychotherapy o...

In a large Army hospital during World War II, a full-time program in hypnotherapy for battle trauma cases was developed. Symptoms included severe anxiety, phobias, conversions, hysterias, and dissociations. Many hypnoanalytic techniques were used, especially including abreactions. Good therapeutic results were frequent, as demonstrated by typical cases. There was no evidence that the abreactive...

Syllabus is very important for teachers, it used by the teachers as reference before they do teaching learning process, flexible and contextual based on students' condition. contain alternative when teach. The teachers' creativity will rise understand characters their environments To students environments, researcher combines syllabus with hypnotherapy sciences. In this study developed hypnosis...

In 1851/52 the Dutch physician A. Hoek treated Rika van B., a young woman suffering from a hysterical psychosis, with hypnosis. This article gives an extensive summary of the case history followed by some comments with regard to the treatment approach used, its historical background and diagnostic issues. The case history is of historical value. It is probably the first description of the uncov...