David R. Patterson

Anna Gerge, fil mag, leg psykoterapeut och Gunnar Rosén, PhD och specialist i klinisk hypnos, bägge erfarna hypnosterapeuter, är redaktörer för denna bok om klinisk hypnos i smärtbehandling. Tillsammans med medförfattarna ger de rikhaltiga kliniska exempel på det hypnosterapeutiska arbetet. Boken erbjuder tydliga metoder för formell och informell hypnos och lyfter fram evidens för bruket av klinisk hypnos inom olika behandlingsprofessioner. Boken innehåller ett antal gedigna tillämpningar för behandlings-arbete inom somatiskt inriktad vård och psykoterapeutiskt arbete. Den beskriver hypnos och smärta både i naturvetenskapliga och humanistiska termer samt hur hypnotiska behandlingsmetoder kan reducera smärta och bidra till att skapa mening och installera hopp. Medförfattare är: leg tandläkarna Randi Abrahamsen, PhD, och Ulf Lafveskans, psykolog Eva Eriksson-Block, psykologerna och psykoterapeuterna; Susanna Carolusson, Reinhild Draeger-Muenke, PhD, Marianne Stahlheuer, psykoterapeuten Gabriella Rudstam, läkarna och specialisterna i psykiatri, dermatologi, allmänmedicin och anestesi; Elisabeth Lundén, Mhairi McKenna, Peder Olesgaard, Aida Plesan, MD, Basil Finer, MD och docent, barnmorskan Anette Werner samt David R. Patterson, PhD, professor i rehabiliteringsmedicin och psykologi.

This comprehensive guide shows how integrating hypnosis with psychotherapy and mindful meditation can help clinicians treat patients who suffer from chronic and acute pain. David R. Patterson and M. Elena Mendoza present hypnotic analgesia as a viable alternative to psychopharmacological interventions for pain resulting from physical injuries, nerve damage, surgery, neurological problems, and other sources. They review research elucidating the neurophysiological and biopsychosocial roots of pain and provide clinical strategies that can be applied in a variety of settings. Patterson and Mendoza adopt a nuanced treatment model that deemphasizes pain reduction, which can be counterproductive, and focuses instead on adaptive pain management through cognitive restructuring. This second edition includes updated research findings and practice guidelines, including technological innovations like virtual reality hypnosis, and a new chapter on mindful meditation. The authors also add a step-by-step case example that walks readers through an integrative, eight-session process and brings the techniques described in this volume to life.

Pahaquarra and Scouting Memories, Volume 1If you have ever attended a summer camp you should read this book about a scout's first summer experiences and then as a camp leader including camping thru a devastating East Coast hurricane. Colorful descriptions, many original photographs and newspaper articles describe the full history of the camp. Camp Pahaquarra abruptly closed in 1972. The structures of the 1,000-acre camp were quickly reduced to rubble and only a few foundations remain today. During the camp's forty-six year lifetime an astounding number of boys, over 100,000, experienced a camp program described by many as "informative and influential times" in their development. As young adult leaders many of the staff served as role models without recognizing their full influence on the campers. The experiences described are not unique to any one camp, public or private. Reading this book may bring back joyful memories of your own summer camp experiences. Many memories and friendships were formed that have lasted a lifetime.

Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control is a compelling argument for the use of hypnotic analgesia as a viable alternative to psychopharmacological interventions for controlling acute, chronic, and perioperative pain, as well as pain from nonsurgical procedures. Yet clinical hypnosis is not an amp quot alternative amp quot medicine, the author argues rather, it is an innovative way of using a patient's subconscious resources to distract, dislocate, or reduce pain in a variety of clinical settings-from the ER to the hospital's rehabilitation wing. As the staff psychologist at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center's burn center, Dr. Patterson draws on his experiences-and many hypnotic inductions-in helping patients deal with the kind of severe pain involved in treating burn wounds and in other types of acute and chronic pain, such as headaches, fibromyalgia, cancer, and neuropathy. Written for a general clinical audience-but particularly for pain specialists-Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control also provides a masterful survey of the different types of pain, as well as a variety of easy-to-follow induction examples (and instructive commentary throughout) for the major types of pain syndromes. The book is also an excellent resource for students and researchers who want to explore hypnotic analgesia's scientific basis and its growing acceptance as an evidence-based practice, the latter exemplified by the work of psychologist Milton Erickson. In the book's penultimate chapter, Dr. Patterson outlines a groundbreaking approach of combining brief counseling techniques and Ericksonian hypnosis for long-term pain management.