Books by Dr. Elkins

Clinical hypnosis has many well-established applications including: pain management, stress management, treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety disorders, hot flashes and menopausal symptoms, smoking cessation, treatment of sleep disturbances, coping with medical procedures, as an adjunct to pediatric care, treatment of habits, facilitating mindfulness, and emotional regulation. This book provides the basic foundational knowledge in clinical hypnosis.

This is a comprehensive guide to the basics of Mindful Hypnotherapy (MH), a new modality that delivers a mindfulness-based intervention within a hypnotic context. The book encompasses everything a clinician needs to know to fully understand and apply the approach in clinical practice. The result of a collaboration between a leader in the field of hypnosis and a mindfulness meditation expert, the book elucidates step-by-step clinical strategies and provides verbatim transcripts that professionals can put to use immediately.

From ayurveda to yoga, complementary and alternative medical practices are in common use today. All mental health practitioners need to understand how these treatments actually work—and how they might supplement or conflict with conventional therapies. This is the first book to explain for therapists the most popular forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

This book introduces a new, evidence-based model of hypnotherapy called “hypnotic relaxation therapy” (HRT). Easily integrated with other therapeutic models or used alone, HRT has been proven effective in a wide variety of applications including pain management, anxiety reduction, smoking cessation, insomnia treatment, and treatment of post-menopausal symptoms. This new model advances the field of hypnotherapy by making relaxation an explicit part of hypnotherapy and measuring individual differences in hypnotizabillity with the introduction of a new measurement instrument, the Elkins Hypnotizability Scale (EHS). Additionally, it is the first book to integrate Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory with HRT.

This is the only up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary resource on clinical hypnosis research and applications in psychology and medicine. Authoredby hypnosis experts worldwide, it encompasses state-of-the-art scholarship and techniques for hypnotic treatments along with hypnosis transcripts and caseexamples for all major psychological disorders and medical conditions.