Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis

The Routledge International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis explores and clarifies the challenge of defining what hypnosis is and how best to integrate it into treatment.It contains state-of-the-art neuroscience cutting-edge practice and future-oriented visions of clinical hypnosis integrated into all aspects of health and clinical care. Chapters gather current research theories and applications in order to view clinical hypnosis through the lens of neurobiological plasticity and reveal the central role of hypnosis in health care. This handbook catalogs the utility of clinical hypnosis as a biopsychosocial intervention amid a broad range of treatment modalities and contexts. It features contributions from esteemed international contributors covering topics such as self-hypnosis key theories of hypnosis hypnosis and trauma hypnosis and chronic pain management attachment and more.This handbook is essential for researchers clinicians and newcomers to clinical hypnosis in medical schools hospitals and other healthcare settings.Chapters 4 35 62 and 63 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at taylorfrancis under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.