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AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CLINIcaL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS SEPTEMBER 2013 VOLUME 40 (2) Published by Australian Society of Hypnosis All submissions to the AJCEH are subject to a (blind) peer refereed review process; this includes expanded research-based analytical reviews of books, but does not include film reviews or short book reviews, unless otherwise noted. The rejection rate for first submissions of research-based articles currently runs at about 25%. Submissions will generally be acknowledged within two weeks of receipt, and feedback on reviews within four months. The time span for publication of articles can take up to 12 months from date of first receipt, depending on the amount of changes required in the article and the timing of the submission of the final draft. The opinions and views expressed in the materials presented in this journal are not necessarily those of the Editor, Editorial Board and Consultants, or of the Australian Society of Hypnosis. Each author is responsible for ensuring the authenticity, accuracy, and legality of their submitted works and to ensure that case studies are written in a way that protects the subjects’ privacy. Where necessary, permission should be obtained for unusual case studies that could identify a client or research participant. In particular, we ask you to verify your sources and to ensure that your facts are correct, and that your submissions in no way contain any material that could be interpreted as libel, defamation, or slander. The AJCEH cannot be responsible for any complaints arising from the publication of such case studies or articles. AVAILABLE NOW IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT Subscriptions to this journal are no longer required. The latest edition of this journal is only available to financial members of the Australian Society of Hypnosis Ltd. However, apart from the latest edition, earlier ones from 1990 onwards can now freely be accessed by institutions, health professionals and interested people on the Society's website: www.hypnosisaustralia.org.au. There is also a list of abstracts with search items for editions going back to 1990. Those having difficulty accessing the journals from 1990 on or making enquiries about earlier editions should contact the Federal Secretariat by email at [email protected] or by leaving a phone message on (02) 97474691. ASH members access the Members' Section of the website by entering their user name and password. Members also have access to scripts and other resources in that section. Enquiries about eligibility for membership should also be directed to the secretariat. State Branches of the Society conduct training programs in Clinical Hypnosis with success in Continuous Assessment, Case Reports and a VIVA leading to the award of the Society's Diploma and Full Membership. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CLINIcaL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS SEPTEMBER 2013 VOLUME 40 (2) Editorial ....................................... iii The Gifts and Vulnerabilities of the Highly Hyponotizable: Relevance for Therapy Wendy-Louise Walker ................................. 77 Teaching Hypnoticaly Responsive Clients Self-Management of Negative Emotions Using Self-Talk, Imagination, and Emotion Wendy-Louise Walker ................................ 84 The Place of Hypnosis in Psychiatry Part 5: Treatment of Specific Phobias—Animal and Situational Subtypes David Kraft ...................................... 88 Hypnosis as an Adjunctive Treatment In The Management of Cricopharyngael Spasm Nadine Pelling ..................................... 114 The Use of Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy in The Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in a Patient Previously Resistant to Other Modes of Therapy Raymon Horley .................................... 123 Hypnosis, Zen Buddhism and the Cancer Experience Workshop Part 1: Hypnosis and Zen Buddhism Norman Shum ....................................... 132 Hypnosis, Zen Buddhism and the Cancer Experience Workshop Part 2: The Cancer Experience Sue Stefanovic ........................................ 149 Deep Trance Norman Shum ....................................... 160 Rosie’s Recovery: Case Study of a Crippling Phobia Karla Fenton ......................................... 162 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CLINIcaL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS Copyright © The Australian Society of Hypnosis Limited 2013 EDITORIAL BOARD Editor Graham A. Jamieson, PhD, University of New England Associate Editors Norm Barling, PhD, Bond University Amanda Barnier, PhD, Macquarie University Greg J. Coman, PhD, University of Melbourne Allan M. Cyna, MB, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide June Henry, PhD, Clinical psychologist, Toowoomba Editorial Consultants Joseph Barber, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine Graham Burrows, AO, KCSJ, MD, FRANZCP, FRCPsych, University of Melbourne Peter B. Bloom, MD, Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Harold B. Crasilneck, PhD, PC, University of Texas Kevin M. McConkey, PhD, University of Newcastle Michael Nash, PhD, University of Tennessee David Oakley, PhD, University College, London Peter W. Sheehan, PhD, Australian Catholic University, Sydney David Spiegel, MD, Stanford University Wendy-Louise Walker, PhD, Sydney Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, The Milton Erickson Foundation FEDERAL EXECUTIVE OF THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF HYPNOSIS LIMITED President: Jim Fletcher, BA (Psych) President-Elect: Di McGreal, PhD, MAPS Past President: Gayre Christie, PhD, MBBS, CEP Federal Treasurer: Brian Allen, BSc, BPsych, FWASMH, MAPS Federal Secretary: Hasser Graham, BA (Psych), MAPS Chairperson Board of Education: James Auld, BDS, MSc, FICD, FASH Manuscripts and editorial matter should be addressed to the Editor, Graham Jamieson, at [email protected]. EDITORIAL Future Directions for AJCEH This issue of AJCEH presents numerous significant contributions by practitioners of clinical hypnosis to ASH members and to our subscribers, including libraries. They will enrich this field certainly in Australia but also, if they are able to reach beyond this audience, in our East Asian region or indeed the world. It will be apparent to our long-term readers that both the content and the regularity of journal editions have changed dramatically in recent years. It must be acknowledged that contributions by academics, particularly of experimental hypnosis research, have dwindled to almost a full stop. For some time now the flow of clinically based articles needed to reach an issue target of 35,000 words has taken much closer to one year than to the projected six monthly issues. Though some will disagree I believe honest scrutiny of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the premier journal in our field, and of comparable national journals such as Contemporary Hypnosis (published by the British Society for Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis) over the same time frame shows similar trends. In order to address these problems we need to understand some of the driving factors. The Australian government undertakes a regular assessment of the research outputs of disciplines within each university, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), which awards them a rank from 1 to 5. These rankings are used to determine the government’s block-funding to support research in each university. For better or worse the intention and effect is to cull research in those disciplines that cannot maintain a ranking of 3 or better (this is the declared policy of my own institution). Research output is assessed for quality and journals are assigned quality rating based principally on citation index (average frequency of citation of published articles). Journals are ranked into categories for ERA purposes and publications in those of the lowest rank (which includes AJCEH) are not neutral; they actually lower the discipline’s ERA ranking. Thus university administrators actively discourage publication in such journals. Universities are financially better off if their academics do not publish at all (that is not to produce such research outputs) rather than publish in such journals. Mechanisms similar to the ERA exist in most nations throughout the OECD. For university-based hypnosis researchers a vicious cycle is in play. If they publish in hypnosis journals their research will not be supported because of the low (IJCEH) or nonexistent (AJCEH) rankings. It is very difficult to get iii iv Editorial hypnosis research published in other highly ranked journals. If they do not publish in hypnosis journals then the quantity and quality of publications in those journals will contract and their reach and thus impact will go into free fall. For example, has anyone seen or heard of an article published in Contemporary Hypnosis (a journal I hold in esteem) in the last five or even 10 years? This is not because the journal has ceased publishing but its accessibility and sphere of influence has (in my estimation) shrunk from a major international contributor to an in-house journal for BSECH members (a direct parallel to AJCEH). But cycles may also be virtuous. Historically professional societies sold control of their professional journals to commercial publishing houses in the 1940s and 1950s, which then ran them as a highly profitable business on a subscriber pays business model. Professional societies and their members provided the written articles, editorial and peer review while publishers very often took not only the profits but copyright ownership as well. With the development of the internet journals could be distributed