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Clinical / Medical hypnosis

  • 12-08-2009 01:46AM
    #1
    hotspur
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    Hi guys, I was wondering if any of you trained or working in the medical field in this country can speak to the issue of the existence of hypnosis as currently being taught or practiced in the broad medical field.

    I'm guessing that it is probably non-existent, but given the large growth of it in America over the past 10/15 years I'm wondering if any or much of it has penetrated over here.

    I have only recently come to appreciate how broad its useful medical applications really are. If anybody even knows any lecturers, researchers, or clinicians who are well disposed to it I wouldn't mind knowing who they are.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    GER12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭GER12


    Hi

    There is an organisation called hypnosis ireland which is located down in Cork.... dont know very much about them myself. The use of hypnosis in Ireland by the medical community is very much in its infancy... but I've got it from a reliable source that the Irish Dental Association have been sending students over to the UK for hypnosis training. In the UK hypnosis has been used as part of surgical procedures - universities in the UK hypnosis units as inter-faculties of psychology.


  • #3
    JuliusCaesar
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    The British Society for Clinical and Academic Hypnosis has lots of info. It's also the (?only) reputable hypnosis organisation, probably due to:
    "We feel that those practicing hypnotherapy should already have a primary, professional reason to be in a helping relationship with patients. They should be in a position to accept clinical responsibility for their actions and have indemnity cover and should only use hypnosis within the clinical field in which they already have expertise."


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