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Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis SCEH 2015 Election FOCUS Results Volume 57 | Number 2 | 2015 SCEH Focus is published four times a year. Incoming President President-Elect Treasurer Secretary Gary Elkins, PhD Don Moss, PhD Ciara Christensen, PhD Zoltán Kekecs, PhD Please join us in congratulating our newly elected officers, who will take office in October at the Annual Conference in Orlando Our new slate of officers will officially take office Thank you to all members who voted. This is your in the fall, along with Incoming President, Gary Society, and your involvement is crucial to our Elkins, PhD, ABPP, ABPH (elected in a special elec - success. We would like to thank the entire slate of tion last year). The ceremony will take place dur - nominees. Your commitment to running for office ing our Saturday evening banquet at the 66th is commendable, and your willingness to offer Annual Workshops & Scientific Program in Or - service to your fellow members is much appreci - lando, Florida. ated. Respectfully Submitted Stephen G. Pauker, MD, MACP Eric K. Willmarth, PhD Nominating Committee Chair Current President and Past President © Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis | 305 Commandants Way-Commoncove Suite 100 | Chelsea, MA 02150-4057 | P: 617-744-9857| F: 413-451-0668 | [email protected] | http://www.sceh.us ⎘ ⎘ NOTES FROM THE INSIDE THIS ISSUE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Anne Doherty Johnson President’s Column.............................................3 SCEH 66 th Conference Keynote Speakers......4 his is a busy time of year for SCEH, as we finalize Research Corner: Zoltan Kekecs.....................5 arrangements for our annual conference and begin our membership renewal process for the Members’ News...................................................7 Tyear ahead. In recent months, we have com - pleted an initial round of strategic planning, re - Psychophysiological Treatment of PTSD: Paul viewed our membership application and website, Gunser, et al.......................................................9 and continue to look at ways to better serve your needs. Stay tuned for more information on these Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to initiatives. Hypnosis and Psychotherapy..........................10 We continue our proud tradition of delivering the ISH 20th Triennial Congress...............................11 best scientifically based education program on hypnosis available with our upcoming 66th annual Chicago Society of Hypnosis...........................12 conference. Our annual event is an important part of SCEH's mission to promote excellence and Images from the 2015 APA Conference........13 progress in hypnosis research, education, and clin - ical practice. 2015 SCEH Scientific Program..........................16 Attendees will surely find our upcoming 2015 event Call for Scientific Posters Still Open..................21 to be stimulating and enlightening. Our gratitude goes out to Conference Committee members 2015 SCEH Conference Committee...............21 (listed on page 21 ), who have developed an out - standing program. The range of topics is matched 2015 SCEH Conference Hotel Information.....22 by an impressive list of presenters, which include the finest clinicians and researchers working in the About SCEH........................................................25 field today. We hope to see many members there, and encourage you to review our conference pro - gram for full details: Message from the Editors SCEH 2015 conference details The links in Focus are active. This issue con - AND tains links to the conference program, a video inviting you to the 2015 conference in Download the conference brochure Orlando, a podcast on the use of hypnosis, and many references (click on the blue links). We'd like to enlist your help in sharing information Make sure to check them out! about our event to friends and colleagues. A tremendous amount of work goes into our event, Werner Absenger, PhD, MSc, & and our goal is to attract as many attendees as we Shelagh Freedman, MA Volume 57 | Number 2 | 2015 2 can. Since you have discovered how effective hypnosis can be, we ask you to introduce SCEH and our event to others who might be exploring or discovering hypnotherapy for the first time, or PRESIDENT ’S COLUMN are still new to it. Our Introductory and Interme - Eric K. Willmarth, PhD diate Workshops are ideal for this purpose, and are led by an excellent faculty. What a busy year for SCEH and for the World of For those with experience in the field, the Hypnosis in general! From the very special Inter - breadth and depth of our Advanced Work - national Society of Hypnosis meeting in Paris, to shops will make choosing sessions a challenge, the many activities of our sister organizations the sure sign of robust and timely programming. ASCH and the APA’s Division 30, to the planning Similarly, our Scientific Program features an ex - and preparation for our own exciting 66th Annual cellent mix of fascinating keynotes, symposia Meeting in Orlando, FL, September 30 – October and research presentations (see page 16 ). A 4th, there is a sense that the use and accept - poster session rounds out the conference, offer - ance of hypnosis is growing! ing many topics for discussion and exploration. We are now finaliz - As I look at the calendar, I am prompted to add ing all the plans for a reminder to register and secure your hotel the Annual Work - room as soon as possible. If your goal is to sur - shops and Scientific round yourself with like-minded, scientifically-fo - Program that will be cused hypnosis clinicians, researchers and held at the Rosen healthcare professionals, Orlando will be the Plaza Hotel in Or - place to be from September 30th through Oc - lando. The Program tober 4th. Committee led by Dr. Mike Nash and If you need more convincing, a personal invita - Scientific Program tion from SCEH's current and incoming Presi - Co-Chairs , Dr. Devin dents can be found in this video : Terhune and Shelagh Freedman, along Eric K. Willmarth, PhD Best regards, with all of our many program committee Anne Doherty Johnson leaders have been hard at work to make sure that this is one of our best programs ever. I’m told that we already have more students involved in SCEH 66 TH ANNUAL this year’s Poster Session than ever before (see page 20 ). WORKSHOPS & The officers of SCEH (the “little EC”) have also been meeting regularly to deal with the many is - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM sues related to a volunteer organization such as TH ours. We are working on legal issues related to our SEPTEMBER 30 - tax status and incorporation status, and on topics TH such as distance learning, revised membership OCTOBER 4 2015 applications, improved member communication and potential bylaw revisions. Our incoming Pres - WWW .SCEH .US /2015- ident, Gary Elkins, has also been leading a Strate - CONFERENCE gic Planning initiative to help guide SCEH to a strong future. Volume 57 | Number 2 | 2015 3 ⎘ Our Executive Director Anne Doherty Johnson and I meet on a weekly basis as well, to address th the many day-to-day issues that arise. She con - SCEH 66 tinues to provide outstanding leadership and tal - ent to our cause. Dr. Arreed Barabasz continues Annual Conference to guide SCEH’s International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, making it the world’s Keynote Speakers premiere hypnosis-related journal, and Werner Absenger, PhD, and Shelagh Freedman just keep making the FOCUS better and better! Deirdre Barrett, PhD Department of Psychiatry, In this issue of the Focus you will also see the re - Harvard Medical School sults of our recent election. I hope you will join me and Past President of the In - in thanking everyone who ran for office, and in ternational Association for congratulating our new President-Elect, Dr. Don - the Study of Dreams and of ald Moss, our new treasurer, Dr. Ciara Christensen, the American Psychological and our new Secretary, Dr. Zoltan Kekecs. All of Association’s Division 30 these individuals will take office, along with our new President Dr. Gary Elkins, during our October conference. Paul F. Dell, PhD, ABPP Past President at the Interna - I hope all of you will be among the “Professionally tional Society for the Study Curious” and join us in Orlando. I hope also that of Trauma and Dissociation you will encourage friends and colleagues to at - and Director of the Trauma tend and to join SCEH. Become active. Join a Recovery Center in Norfolk, SCEH committee. Share the word that solid re - Virginia search and informed clinical practice are what will carry the field of hypnosis well into the future! Sincerely, Eric K. Willmarth, Ph.D Maximilian Muenke, President, SCEH MD, DABMA Chief & Senior Investigator of the Medical Genetics Branch of the National Institute of Health Saturday’s Banquet Address We are still accepting Amir Raz, PhD, ABPH Canada Research Chair in Poster Presentations for the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention, Faculty of Orlando 2015! Medicine, McGill University and Director of the Clinical Neuroscience and Applied Click here to view details Cognition Laboratory at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital Volume 57 | Number 2 | 2015 4 medication requirements and nausea were not statistically significant. RESEARCH CORNER We were also able to contrast the effectiveness of 1) hypnosis interventions and therapeutic sug - gestion interventions; 2) interventions presented Zoltan Kekecs, PhD in person and via recordings; 3) and interventions used in minor and major surgeries. Our results [email protected] showed that the highest benefit can be ex - pected in interventions using a formal hypnosis in - duction and presented in person, and that pain reduction is consistently achieved in minor, but not major surgeries when using these techniques. was always fascinated by the intricate interplay A short podcast summarizing the implications of of the mind and the body, however old-fash - our research can be found at this link: ioned this artificial division of these two insepa - http://content.blubrry.com/aa2day/sugges - Irable entities might sound.