Cognitive hypnotherapy: a new vision and strategy for research and practice.
This article describes cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), a visionary model of adjunctive hypnotherapy that advances the role of clinical hypnosis to a recognized integrative model of psychotherapy. As hypnosis lacks a coherent theory of psychotherapy and behavior change, hypnotherapy has embodied a mixed bag of techniques and thus hindered from transfiguring into a mainstream school of psychotherapy. One way of promoting the therapeutic standing of hypnotherapy as an adjunctive therapy is to systematically integrate it with a well-established psychotherapy. By blending hypnotherapy with cognitive behavior therapy, CH offers a unified version of clinical practice that fits the assimilative model of integrated psychotherapy, which represents the best integrative psychotherapy approach for merging both theory and empirical findings.
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Assen.Alladin@albertahealthservices.ca
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D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000379:methods*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends