The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy : a Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Hypnosis

459 Pages·2013·10.677 MB·English

by  Donald James Robertson

THE PRACTICE OF COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL
HYPNOTHERAPY

THE PRACTICE OF
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL
HYPNOTHERAPY
A Manual for Evidence-Based
Clinical Hypnosis
Donald J. Robertson
First published 2013 by Karnac Books Ltd.
Published 2018 by Routledge
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ix
FOREWORD xi
NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY AND CITATIONS xiii
PART I: THE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH TO HYPNOSIS
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction to cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy 3
CHAPTER TWO
James Braid and the original hypnotherapy 31
CHAPTER THREE
Cognitive-behavioural theories of hypnosis 81
PART II: ASSESSMENT, CONCEPTUALISATION, AND HYPNOTIC SKILLS
CHAPTER FOUR
Assessment in cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy 119
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CHAPTER FIVE
Case formulation in cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy 141
CHAPTER SIX
Socialisation and hypnotic skills training 183
PART III: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL HYPNOTHERAPY
CHAPTER SEVEN
Applied self-hypnosis and coping skills 215
CHAPTER EIGHT
Affect: hypnotic exposure therapy 275
CHAPTER NINE
Behaviour: Problem-Solving Hypnotherapy (PSH) 311
CHAPTER TEN
Cognition: cognitive hypnotherapy 355
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Conclusion and summary 415
REFERENCES 419
INDEX 431
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my fellow countryman James Braid for allowing me to benefit, over 150
years on, from his perseverance in the face of opposition, and his vigorous “common sense”
philosophy of hypnotic therapeutics. Braid was a man of integrity who offered free treatment to
many patients in his region and never sought to profit from his discovery. He continued to test
and revise his views throughout his career and to share his knowledge and skills generously
with others.
I thank my loving wife, Mandy, for her patience, help, and support. Thanks are also due to
Daisy Robertson for her professional advice on the fine nuances of that difficult subject, the
psycho-physiology of hypnotic catalepsy. I’d like to dedicate this book to my daughter, Poppy
Louise Robertson, who was born when I was in the middle of writing it. I love you, Poppy.
(Please stop trying to playing drums on my laptop’s keyboard, though!)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Donald Robertson is a registered psychotherapist (UKCP/EAP) in private practice, specialising
in clinical hypnosis and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). He has been working as a thera-
pist since 1996, and is currently the principal of the UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy,
a private training provider.
Donald has published dozens of articles on hypnosis, philosophy, and psychotherapy in
professional journals and periodicals. He is the author of Build your Resilience (Hodder), The
Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (Karnac), and the editor of The Discovery of Hypnosis:
The Complete Writings of James Braid, the Father of Hypnotherapy (NCH). He regularly speaks at
conferences and other events on issues such as hypnosis and philosophy in psychotherapy.
Donald originally comes from Ayr, on the West coast of Scotland. He previously worked
as a counsellor with young offenders, drug users, and schoolchildren, before opening his
private practice in Harley Street, London. He studied Mental Philosophy at Aberdeen
University before completing his Masters degree in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Centre for
Psychotherapeutic Studies, Sheffield University. He holds a number of qualifications in differ-
ent therapeutic approaches, including two practitioner diplomas in CBT, one from the Centre
for Stress Management and the other from Kings College, London.
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