Background and aim: Psychological consequences of addiction, such as major depression regardless of physical problems, economic, cultural and social is cause problems for both families and society. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of group cognitive hypnotherapy on major depression in residential and semi-residential addiction recovery…
Abstract A chemically dependent man was treated using hypnotherapy and related psychotherapeutic techniques. I started by taking a psychosocial history and then introduced such interventions as pattern interruption and symbolic task assignments to establish initial sobriety. The majority of the sessions focused on age regressing the patient to events correlating…
Abstract This study evaluated the effectiveness of a self-hypnosis protocol with chronic drug and alcohol patients in increasing self-esteem, improving affect, and preventing relapse against a control, a transtheoretical cognitive-behavioral (TCB), and a stress management (attention-placebo) group. Participants were 261 veterans admitted to Substance Abuse Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Programs (SARRTPs).…
Citation Manganiello, A. J. (1984). A comparative study of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy in the treatment of methadone addicts. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 26(4), 273–279. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.1984.10402575 Abstract Examined the effects of hypnotherapy on the ability of 70 21–63 yr old methadone-maintained patients to reduce and/or eliminate their drug-taking behavior. Ss were randomly…
Abstract An unusual case is presented in which hypnosis was successfully used to overcome a $500 (five grams) per day cocaine addiction. The subject was a female in her twenties. Six months into her addiction, she acquired a commercial weight-control tape that she used successfully to stop smoking cigarettes (mentally…
The American Hypnosis Association presents nine (9) studies related to Addictions and Hypnosis. Study 1: Hypnosis and Cocaine Study 2: Hypnosis and Methadone Study 3: Hypnosis and Marijuana, Cocaine and Alcohol Study 4: Self-Hypnosis for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Study 5: Case Study – Hypnosis for Chemical Dependency (and future…
Abstract: One of the major social and health problems across the world is drug and alcohol abuse. It is endemic to many societies. This has been the case for thousands of years with the use of cocaine in ancient Egypt, alcohol in ancient Rome, opium in China in the 19th century,…
Abstract A chemically dependent man was treated using hypnotherapy and related psychotherapeutic techniques. I started by taking a psychosocial history and then introduced such interventions as pattern interruption and symbolic task assignments to establish initial sobriety. The majority of the sessions focused on age regressing the patient to events correlating…
Abstract An unusual case is presented in which hypnosis was successfully used to overcome a $500 (five grams) per day cocaine addiction. The subject was a female in her twenties. Six months into her addiction, she acquired a commercial weight-control tape that she used successfully to stop smoking cigarettes (mentally…