
Permissive language gives back control
At a recent BSCAH webinar, I mentioned an incident I’d experienced whilst working as a prison nurse, which happened several years ago

Grow your skills: A practical day of hypnosis
Do you miss discussion and swapping experiences with your professional colleagues about hypnotic applications in your clinical field? Do you miss practising hypnotic techniques face to face in the way

A Titanic Experience
A case study of a dental phobic. Dr Mandy Kent BDS Mr AL (55yrs old) works in the film industry and loves films. He is an extrovert man with a

False memories, regression and repression in trauma
In BSCAH we teach safe ways of helping people deal with trauma from their past and highlight the danger of regressing someone in hypnosis to a traumatic event. It can

Online training – pros and cons
Prior to the pandemic I would have maintained that hypnosis training really needed physical face to face sessions for the practical aspects of hypnosis to be adequately taught but I

Periods and menstruation and hypnosis?
One would have thought there was a lot of evidence about the effectiveness. And maybe there is, but I can’t find it, so I would appreciate your anecdotes! As part

Not all days are good days
Not all days are good days. In the face of adversity what choices do we have? Do we lose ourselves, feeling overwhelmed and helpless, perhaps escaping into displacement activity to

When you’re stuck for what present to get someone…
How about a Christmas gift of attendance at this event? ‘Think it possible that you may be mistaken’ is the intriguing title of our next Annual Conference which, all being

Dental hypnosis and hypnotherapy
‘Hypnosis…that wouldn’t work on me…I would resist it’ ‘That’s mumbo jumbo’ ‘Will you be brainwashing me?’ ‘What if I get stuck in hypnosis?’ Personally, I don’t like using the word