Meta-analyses have shown that hypnosis increases the effectiveness of psychotherapy substantially. This book provides clinicians with up-to-date methods for using hypnosis to enhance the outcome of empirically validated treatments. Clinical hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapies have much in common. Hypnotic procedures inspired some of the first behavioral therapies, and the effectiveness of both have been demonstrated empirically. Nevertheless, most guides to clinical hypnosis are based on psychodynamic or Ericksonian perspectives. This book conversely contains chapters by the most prominent cognitive-behavioral scholars in the field of hypnosis, as well as a chapter by Arnold Lazarus, a founder of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.The chapter on suggestibility modification presents, for the first time in print, the full text of the Carleton Skill Training Program, the most thoroughly researched procedure for enhancing responsiveness to suggestion. The book also offers an introduction to Salvador Amigo's self-regulation therapy, which is based on a very successful suggestibility modification program. Readers who wish to expand their hypnosis skills will find this a rich source of information.

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