
Spider phobia no longer!
Yesterday I succeeded in catching my first spider. Whilst preparing our guest room yesterday, a long-legged spider appeared from behind the bedstead. I admit I screamed at first. Then, almost

Empathy and Rapport
Does establishing good empathy facilitate hypnosis or does hypnosis provide an accelerated path to empathy? Peter Naish posed this question in an email that generated quite a discussion on the

How to choose a hypnosis practitioner?
If you’re looking for help solving a problem, and you’ve decided to use hypnosis to help, how do you decide who to use? We’ve talked already about some of the labels around

Hypnosis and Free Will
Hypnosis seems so full of contradictions! You don’t see them if you if you don’t look, but how can anyone justify using this wonderful tool without looking at its science

Communication Book Review
Handbook of Communication in Anaesthesia & Critical Care: A Cyna This book was recommended to me twice – firstly on twitter by a non-hypnosis professional (!!!) and then by Jean

Review of Clinical Hypnosis article in an Italian newspaper.
Whilst browsing the Italian newspaper “The Corriere della Sera” on the 2nd August (I’m learning Italian as well as Clinical Hypnosis) an article caught my eye. The article describes, how a

E-learning and hypnosis
BSCAH foundation training is recognised by ESH, and the ISH. ESH and ISH set the standards for basic hypnosis training for health care professionals, and they recognise BSCAH’s course as

Which hypnosis society is for me?
We’ve talked a lot in our blogs about some of the terminology and considerations around hypnosis. How to choose a practitionerconcentrated on the differences between clinicians and non-clinicians. What’s in a

Writing Blogs
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