"I remember you mentioning Skinner's definition and I see an occasional mention or two, but I don't seem to see anyone else discussing it in much depth. I have read your 2 part 2007 paper commenting on your theory, which looks to be the…"
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JImmy Hynes left a comment for Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D."Yeah, the theory of hypnosis paper. I'll have to see if I can get a hold of your other paper. Do I just have a blind spot in my literature search, or are you the only one trying to see hypnosis as skillful conditioning?"
Nathan Welch left a comment for Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D."Hi Alfred I will email you at weekend with a more detail about the sessions with dad smiles Nath"
Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"I noticed that my response to Okka's comments regarding the guilt feelings associated with the idea that cancer could be self-inflicted were cut off somehow in mid-paragraph so I am now going to add a bit more to complete that section of my…"
James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post BIOFEEDBACK AS A FORM OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION"When I was in hypnosis training, my teacher commented to me, "Biofeedback is hypnosis with a machine attached to you." :-)"
Igor Polshchikov commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"I think there is a slight mismatch of approaches to this topic between how I view it and the other comments that were posted. I view this from the hypnotist angle not the psychotherapy nor hypnotherapy angles. I don't help people change their…"
Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post BIOFEEDBACK AS A FORM OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION"Alfred, great article. I was trained in autogenic training in 1991; which of course, was developed in the 1930's and almost everything in biofeedback came from the ideas of autogenic training. And so I have viewed biofeedback as a…"
Brian David Phillips commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post BIOFEEDBACK AS A FORM OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION"Back when I was in grad school for my MA degree, I did biofeedback training at the university's counselling center and while I would not go so far to call it a hypnotic induction per se, it most definitely had trance induction elements and I…"
Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"I noticed in Okka's comment on my ideas on healing cancer using hypnosis that she did not like the underlying idea that cancer might be self-inflicted, that this could impose deep feelings of guilt. This is why in my articles on the…"
Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. posted a blog postBIOFEEDBACK AS A FORM OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION
I would like to know how many hypnotherapists out there have used a biofeedback device to enhance the hypnotic induction. I actually came to the conclusion that the reason why biofeedback has proven to be so effective is because in actuality biofeedback is a form of hypnotic induction according to the definition of hypnotic induction I present in my theory of hypnosis. I thought you might be interested in the brief article on this possibility I submitted to the journal of BFE, the European…See More
Okka Holthuis commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"Hi,
Reading these comments is quite interesting for me - from the point of a hypnotist/energy worker of many years, as well as from the point of view as a patient. I was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago, underwent some of the treatments…"
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Antonio left a comment for Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D."Aloha and welcome to Hypnothoughts. I hope you enjoy your stay here.
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Michael Ellner commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"Hi,
I believe that learned helplessness/hopelessness is contageous - People living with cancer often catch these "stuck states" from their doctors, loved ones and the people they meet. Hypnotists who recognize the risk for…"
Nathan Welch left a comment for Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D."Thanks Alfred will send dads email over later today smiles Nath"
Nathan Welch commented on Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D.'s blog post HYPNOSIS IN THE HEALING OF CANCER"Hi Alfred my father is a cancer patient and has used Hypnosis to help, perhaps it would be better to ask a patient how it has worked for them rather than a therapists giving us a different perspective that of the client, if you would like to contact…"
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- Interacting with the hypnotherapeutic community. Getting their comments on my articles.
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- Theory of hypnosis. Healing of cancer via hypnosis. Reducing the school dropout problem via hypnosis. Increasing the effectiveness of hypnotic inductions. Self hypnosis. Stress Control. Biofeedback.
- About Me:
- I received my Ph.D. in psychology in 1969 from UCLA (Dissertation title: "Towards Understanding the Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy: A Combined Clinical, Theoretical and Experimental Approach").. My B.S. is from Caltech, 1955. I am very scientifically-oriented. My theory of hypnosis was published in Contemporary Hypnosis in 2001 (also can be found at my website, www.spccenter.com). I am the author of the much quoted article, "Hypnotherapy: A Reappraisal" first published in 1970 in the journal Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (also in the articles section of my website). The part that is often quoted is where I give the results of my review of the literature which shows that the average success rate for hypnotherapy is 93% after an average of 6 sessions, compared to an average success rate for psychoanalysis of 38% after an average of 600 sessions, and an average success rate of 72% for behavior therapy after 22 sessions. I am also the inventor of the Stress Control Biofeedback Card. And I am one of the first to propose that hypnosis can be a very effective tool in reviving the immune system in the healing of cancer. I wrote my first paper on this in 1961 over 50 years ago (my article on this also can be found at my website).
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BIOFEEDBACK AS A FORM OF HYPNOTIC INDUCTION
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:40pm 3 Comments 0 Favorites
I would like to know how many hypnotherapists out there have used a biofeedback device to enhance the hypnotic induction. I actually came to the conclusion that the reason why biofeedback has proven to be so effective is because in actuality biofeedback is a form of hypnotic induction according to the definition of hypnotic induction I present in my theory of hypnosis. I thought you might be interested in the brief article on this possibility I submitted to the journal of BFE, the European…
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Posted on September 18, 2011 at 12:54pm 15 Comments 0 Favorites
I would like to know how many hypnotherapists out there have have attempted to use hypnosis in the healing of cancer, and how many have had success in doing so. When I wrote my first paper on this subject (Hypnosis as a Possible Means of Curing Cancer) over 50 years ago (June of 1961 to be exact) while I was working towards my Ph.D. in psychology at UCLA, I was pretty much ridiculed and labled as a quack. I even had one hypnotherapist after my presentation of this paper in 1973 at the 6th…
Continue IS THERE FREE WILL? FINALLY AN ANSWER
Posted on September 14, 2011 at 3:01pm 5 Comments 0 Favorites
by Alfred A. Barrios, PhD
The question of whether man does or does not have free will has been debated down through the centuries by some of the greatest minds but has never been fully answered. There are those, call them idealists, who say that of course we have free will; we can control our own destiny; we can choose between misery and happiness. Then there are the realists who point to all the miserable people in the world and ask did all these people freely choose to be…
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- At 4:20pm on October 5, 2011, JImmy Hynes said…
- I remember you mentioning Skinner's definition and I see an occasional mention or two, but I don't seem to see anyone else discussing it in much depth. I have read your 2 part 2007 paper commenting on your theory, which looks to be the same material. I'll let you know if I have any comments after I find your paper on PHS as higher order conditioning :)
- At 2:41pm on October 4, 2011, JImmy Hynes said…
- Yeah, the theory of hypnosis paper. I'll have to see if I can get a hold of your other paper. Do I just have a blind spot in my literature search, or are you the only one trying to see hypnosis as skillful conditioning?
- At 11:18am on September 27, 2011, Nathan Welch said…
- Hi Alfred I will email you at weekend with a more detail about the sessions with dad smiles Nath
- At 12:25pm on September 21, 2011, Antonio said…
Aloha and welcome to Hypnothoughts. I hope you enjoy your stay here.
Antonio
You want to find some Hypnosis or NLP practice partners? Subscribe to my newsletter at www.hawaiihypnosis.org and I'll get you a list of people that live in your area!
- At 3:57am on September 20, 2011, Nathan Welch said…
- Thanks Alfred will send dads email over later today smiles Nath
- At 4:07pm on September 16, 2011,
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- At 9:50am on September 14, 2011,
Fable Goodman said… Welcome!
I trust you will have an enjoyable
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Love and hugs,
Fable
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