More and more therapists have been employing an integrative approach to treatment, and they have seen favourable and long-lasting results in clinical practice. The advantage of using an integrative approach is that you can tailor-make the therapy to suit the needs of the client–one can combine behaviour techniques with hypnosis, or behaviour therapy with some analysis, or even cognitive techniques with something else.

Integrative therapy has moved on over the last twenty years. David Kraft and Tom Kraft have spoken time and time again about the benefits of using a multi-modal approach–see the references below. John Gruzelier (2012) recently pointed out that,

‘The integrative approach was part of the new millennium’s zeitgeist in all fields of science, especially neurobiology with its explosion of discoveries, inculcating a more flexible, openminded orientation in scientists’.

He also said that this integrative approach has become more present in clinical practice-for example in the articles and presentation by Kraft and Kraft and others.

References

JH Gruzelier (2012). Editorial Commentary. Contemporary Hypnosis and Integrative Therapy, 29 (2): 133-135.

Kraft T & Kraft D (2004). Creating a virtual reality in hypnosis: a case of driving phobia. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21 (2): 79-85.

Kraft T & Kraft D (2005). Covert sensitization revisited: six case studies. Contemporary Hypnosis, 22 (4): 202-209.

Kraft T & Kraft D (2007). An integrative approach to the treatment of hyperhidrosis: review and case study. Contemporary Hypnosis, 24 (1): 38-45.

Kraft T & Kraft D (2007). Irritable Bowel Syndrome: symptomatic treatment approaches versus integrative psychotherapy. Contemporary Hypnosis, 24 (4): 161-177.

Kraft D & Kraft T (2010). Use of in vivo and in vitro desensitization in the treatment of mouse phobia: review and case study. Contemporary Hypnosis, 27 (3): 184-194.   

Kraft D (2012). Panic disorder without agoraphobia. A multi-modal approach: solution-focused therapy, hypnosis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Journal of Integrative Research, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 1 (1): 4-15.

Kraft D (2012). Successful treatment of heavy smoker in one hour using split screen imagery, aversion, and suggestions to eliminate cravings. Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy, 29 (2): 175-188.  

David Kraft is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH).

For an appointment, please phone 0207 467 8564.

David Kraft has just published a peer-reveiwed study in the journal, Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy: the paper is a treatment of a 33 year old male smoker. The man, Philip, had one hypnotherapy session and stopped smoking immediately. At the one year follow, Philip reported that not only had he not had one cigarette, but that also he had had no cravings. The citation is below:

Kraft D (2012). Successful treatment of heavy smoker in one hour using split screen imagery, aversion, and suggestions to eliminate cravings. Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy, 29 (2): 175-188.

Smoking has a deleterious effect on the body and can cause death. David Kraft has spent a great deal of time researching smoking cessation techniques and has helped a large number of people give up smoking. Smoking cessation hypnosis is a cost effective form of treatment.

David is a member of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH). He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. For an appointment, please ring 0207 467 8564. 

Royal Society of Medicine

On the 6th of June 2011, the Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine Section was at the centre of the news because of claims that the NHS could save money–a huge amount of money–if hospitals employ fully qualified therapists to use hypnosis in treatment. The overall message of fellows of the society was that hypnosis is a very powerful tool that can be used on its own or in conjunction with medical treatment, but that patients should be protected from, as Jacky Owens, president of the section calls them, ‘hypno-cowboys’.

She said,

“Conditions such as depression, pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affect millions of people in the UK and a great cost to the NHS. But hypnosis can often work where other treatments have been unsuccessful”.

Hypnosis is, at long last recognised by NICE as an intervention for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and Peter Whorwell in Manchester has shown that his gut directed approach is significantly effective in treatment. However, there are many other conditions that have been treated effectively with hypnosis including depression, phobic anxiety, agoraphobia, psychosomatic pain, OCD, sleep disorders, eating disorders, anxiety, grief, chemotherapy-induced nausea, PTSD amongst others.

Amongst other specialists, Dr David Kraft gave a lecture on the use of hypnosis for smoking cessation. He gave a detailed account of a case study: the client was a man in his early 30s who had smoked over 25 cigarettes for about 20 years. Dr Kraft used hypnosis and a number of techniques which he described for the audience. He showed that it is possible to use hypnosis and help people give up smoking in one session. In one hour.

David Kraft is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine Section. He is also a member of the British Society of Clinical & Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH) and on the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR). He has written and co-written over 10 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals in England and Australia and has given lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine of four occasions. David has spent a great deal of time treating people with phobic anxiety, but has recently also had a lot of success helping people give up smoking. He uses covert sensitization (aversion therapy) in his approach and has even help people to reduce their cravings to a minimum.

Smoking has a deleterious effect on almost all of the organs in the body and is responsible for many deaths each year.

To give up, phone Dr Kraft on 0207 467 8564. Now!!!