Hypnosis for alcohol addiction

Hypnosis For Alcoholism

Many USA alcohol abusers aiming at reforming their habits often start
out on the wrong foot. They resign themselves to being defined as
an alcoholic who will have to struggle with the disease for maybe the
rest of their life. Hey - that's negative thinking. Plain wrong.

Richard Friesen has a master's degree in clinical psychology and
has developed a program called "Positive Changes," a program aimed
at helping those struggling with addictions, alcohol in particular.
It is in this program that Friesen talks about how determinate a
patient's success rate is on their frame of mind, or 'mindset'.

"They (i.e. traditional recovery circles) are right. Alcoholism
can be a disease for life, especially if you believe it is," said
Friesen in a press release.

He claims that his program provides the steps needed in order to
curb addictions.

But the testimonials of his program's effectiveness serve as but
one example. The history of hypnosis' effectiveness in treating
alcoholism can be traced back to the early 1900s, when hypnosis was
used as a method of treatment much more liberally than in recent
years. As an article in The Journal of Clinical Psychology (July,
2004) says, success rates ("success" meaning abstinence from
alcohol) were as high as 80 percent among 700 patients
participating in the survey.

The image of hypnotherapy is now fast improving in the USA.
It is now medically accepted as a legitimate treatment form.
Hypnotism has been plagued as a kind of stage act meant for
entertainment, which is the main reason why it fell out of favor as
a form of treatment. There has been a big resurgence recently;
however, a resurgence that's employed some of the successful
tactics of old as a way to decrease tension and increase positive
imagery over the course of several sessions. These treatments have
elicited some positive results. The July 2004 hypnotherapy article, for
example, details how nearly 80 percent of the 18 patients who have
received the treatment in the past seven years have abstained from
alcohol after their one-year follow-up session.

Again, this is just one example of hypnosis and its healing
properties with alcoholism. The more people exposed to studies
revealing its effectiveness - is when you'll see a resurgence of
hypnosis as a mainstream form of substance abuse treatment.

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