Thank you Mishelle, I wish you the very best with your continued studies.

I am studying to become a transpersonal hypnotherapist and have found your website a couple of times during my studies.

I do appreciate the information you have here and it’s been helpful in clarifying some of the conflicting information I find between the Academia and the Healing Arts providers.

Thank you for having this information posted. I hope all of us who have the gift of affective hypnosis are free to practice for the greater good regardless if we have a medical or psychology degree.

Sending lots of happiness your way from Alaska!
Mishelle

Thanks Don, I enjoyed the article too, thanks 🙂

I think his methods are really just pie-in-the-sky. I’ve often quoted comparative figures like this but they’re largely of historical interest and as a very rough-and-ready comparison of treatments. It’s good fun though!

I’m not sure how he gets the figure of 93% success for hypnotherapy, which sounds totally unrealistic across studies, although six sessions is still about the average for hypnosis in clinical studies.

Incidentally, qute a lot of the data he’s quoting from Wolpe (and possibly Lazarus) actually refer to hypnosis used in behaviour therapy anyway, which kind of muddies the comparison.

I’ve got a blog article about a recent journal article by Barrios here,

http://ukhypnosis.com/2009/07/21/two-competing-modern-theories-of-hypnosis/

Best,

Donald