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Dr David Kraft has spent a great deal of time researching sexual dysfunction. The following Abstract is taken fromthe paper he presented with his father, Dr Tom Kraft, at the Royal Society of Medicine in 2006. The paper was later published in the AJCEH.
Abstract
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Names, degrees and current posts |
Dr Thomas Kraft, MB ChB, FRCPsych, DPM; Consultant Psychiatrist, Harley Street, London Dr David Kraft, BMus, PhD, PGCE; Teacher, Hemel Hempstead |
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Title of Presentation |
The Place of Hypnosis in Psychiatry Part 2: the Application to Psychosexual Disorders |
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Aims |
1) To review the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in the treatment of psychosexual disorders. 2) To evaluate and assess a number of treatment procedures in hypnotherapy which do not require any medication. |
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Learning Objectives |
1) To be able to describe a number of treatment procedures in hypnotherapy which offer an alternative to drug therapy. 2) To value the concept that rehearsing situations in the consulting room in hypnotherapy leads to a transfer into the life situation. 3) To understand the importance of self hypnosis. 4) To be able to understand the classification of psychosexual disorders, and to list the main features.
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Data Sources Reviewed and Selection Criteria Applied |
Literature Search prepared by the Royal Society of Medicine using the following databases: Medline, Embase and PsycInfo.
Summary of Searches 1 ‘Hypnosis for the treatment of psychosexual disorders’ (2 March 2004). Limits: all years. Language: English
2 ‘Sexual disorders and hypnotherapy, with particular reference to a list of 14 disorders’ (4 September 2005) Limits: last 2 years Language: English
Located 146 relevant papers on this subject across the 3 databases.
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Findings |
Hypnotherapy is a valuable treatment approach for a wide variety of sexual disorders.
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Selected Bibliography |
American Psychiatric Association (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.). Washington, DC:Author.
Araoz DL (1980) Clinical hypnosis in treating sexual abulia. American Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 8, No. 1: 48-57.
Bakich I (1995). Hypnosis in the treatment of sexual desire disorders. Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol. 23, No. 1: 70-77.
Bandler R (1985). Using your brain—for a change. Moab, UT: Real People Press.
Crasilneck HB and Hall JA (1985) Clinical Hypnosis: Principles and Application, 2nd edn, New York: Grune & Stratton.
Degun MD, Degun GS (1991). Hypnotherapy and sexual problems. Taken from Hypnotherapy: A handbook ed. Michael Heap Open University Press, Buckingham [pp108-127].
Fuchs, K, Zaidise I, Peretz BA & Paldi E (1985). Hypnotherapy in male impotence in D Waxman, PC Misra, M. Gibson and MA Basker (eds) Modern Trends in Hypnosis: Proceedings of the 9th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, New York: Plenium Press.
Jacobson E (1938) Progressive Relaxation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Kandyba K, Binik YM (2003) Hypnotherapy as a treatment for vulvar vestibulitis syndrome: a case report. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Vol. 29, No. 2: 237-242.
Masters WH, Johnson VE (1970). Human sexual inadequacy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Walch SL (1976) The red balloon technique of hypnotherapy: a clinical note. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol. 24, No. 1: 10-12.
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Copyright. The Australian Journal of Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis 2007.
Hypnotherapy is a very useful tool to be used in conjunction with psychotherapy.
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