Rossi Ernest Lawrence - Mind-body therapy: ideodynamic healing in hypnosis

MIND-BODY
THERAPY

Ideodynamic Healing in
Hypnosis

Ernest Lawrence Rossi
and David B. Cheek

W. W. Norton & CompanyNew YorkLondon

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Copyright 1988 by Ernest L. Rossi and David B. Cheek

First published as a Norton paperback 1994

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Rossi, Ernest Lawrence.

Mind-body therapy: ideodynamic healing in hypnosis / Ernest
Lawrence Rossi and David B. Cheek. - 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Hypnotism - Therapeutic use. 2. Mind and body. 3. Medicine,
Psychosomatic. 4. Psychotherapy. I. Cheek, David B. II. Title.
RC497.R67 1988 616.89'162dc19 8734852

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DEDICATION

We dedicate this book to our teacher,
Milton H. Erickson,
who taught us the state-dependent nature of therapeutic hypnosis;
Francis Schmitt
for his new views of information substances in the molecular regulation of brain
function;
Candace Pert
for her pioneering research on neuropeptides and their receptors as a psychosomatic
network;
Eric Kandel
for his research explorations into the genetic-molecular basis of memory and
learning;
Gerald Edelman
for his concept of neural Darwinism and learning
and to
Leslie LeCron
for his pioneering development of ideodynamic signaling in clinical hypnosis

OTHER BOOKS BY ERNEST LAWRENCE ROSSI

The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing
Dreams and the Growth of Personality
Mind-Body Communication in Hypnosis (edited with Margaret O. Ryan)
Life Reframing in Hypnosis (edited with Margaret O. Ryan)
Healing in Hypnosis (edited with Margaret O. Ryan and Florence A. Sharp)
The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson (editor)
Experiencing Hypnosis: Indirect Approaches to Altered States
(with Milton H. Erickson)
Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook (with Milton H. Erickson)
Hypnotic Realities (with Milton H. Erickson and S. I. Rossi)

BY DAVID B. CHEEK

Clinical Hypnotherapy (with Leslie LeCron)

Contents

SECTION I
The Evolution of Ideodynamic Concepts in Therapeutic Hypnosis

SECTION II
Motivation, Stress, and Mind-Body Healing: The Mind-Molecule Connection

SECTION III
State-Dependent Memory, Meaning, and Healing

SECTION IV
The New Psychosomatic Medicine

SECTION V
Psychosomatic Networks: Perception, Pain, and Pleasure

SECTION VI
Womens Consciousness and Psychobiological Clocks

SECTION VII
Sexual Development and Dysfunction

SECTION VIII
Dreams, Illness, and Healing

SECTION IX
Birth Experience and the Construction of Reality

SECTION X
Forensic Hypnosis

Acknowledgments

We wish to express our appreciation to Fred Altman and Sanford I. Cohen of The National Institute of Mental Health for their leadership in assembling the Airlie House I and II Scientific Workshops on the Behavioral and Psychosocial Effects on Physical Health in 1987 and 1988.

The following members of the Airlie Workshops, among others, have contributed inspiration, support, and expertise to our efforts to articulate the leading edge of mind-body research:

Jeanne Achterberg

Robert Ader