BOOKS AND ARTICLES ABOUT HYPNOSIS
WITH KIDS AND MIND BODY MEDICINE
Books:
Books for Kids:
Kulbert, Tim, Rebecca Kajander. Be the Boss of your Body series: Be the Boss of your
Stress, Be the Boss of your Sleep, Be the Boss of your Pain. Free Spirit
Publishing, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
A great holistic approach to sleep, stress, and pain, often interrelated problems, for kids age 6-12. Young teens and even adults may enjoy it too.
Thomson, Linda. Harry the Hypno-potamus and other metaphorical tales.volumes 1 and 2. Crown House Publishing,New York. 2009
Stories for young children about the animals of the Ashland Zoo with problems ranging from bedwetting to headaches and how they heal themselves hypnotically, Has a nice introduction for parents.
Books for Parents about Chronic Pain:
Kuttner, Leora. A Child in Pain: How to Help, What to Do. Crown House,
Vancouver, BC, 2008.
Zelter, L., Schlank, CB. Conquiering Your Child’s Chronic Pain: A Pediatric Guide for Reclaiming a normal Childhood. Harper Collins, New York, NY, 2005.
Books for Health Professionals (and for interested others as well)
Lyons, Lynn. Using Hypnosis with Children: Creating and Delivering Effective
Interventions, WW Norton & Co., New York, NY. 2015
The best book for practicing psychotherapists and others using hypnosis for anxiety, depression and chronic pain
Yapko, M., Trancework: An introduction to the practice of clinical hypnosis, 3rd ed.
Brunner-Routledge, New York, N.Y. 2003.
Probably the best single text explaining the history, theory and practice of clinical hypnosis.
Olness, K. Kohen, D. Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children, 4th ed., Routlege, New
York, NY, 2011.
The first text on hypnosis with children and adolescents, still a classic, comprehensive, covers a wide range of medical issues, developmental considerations and so on, based on Dr’s Olness and Kohens’ near century of combined experience.
Kuttner, L. A Child in Pain: What Health Professionals can do to Help. Crown House,
Vancouver, BC, 2010.
Wester, W. Sugarman L. Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents, 2nd ed.
Kabat-Zinn, J. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face
stress, pain, and illness, Random House, New York, NY, 1990.
Lipton, B. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the power of consciousness, matter and
miracles, Hay House, Inc. 2005
Siegel, D. Mindsight: The new science of personal transformation. Bantam Books,
New York, N.Y, 2010
Rosen S., ed. My Voice will go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson.
WW Norton, New York, NY. 1982
Aritcles:
Ader, R. On the development of psychoneuroimmunology. European J of Pharmacology
405:167-176, 2000.
Ader, R. Conditioned immunomodulation: research needs and directions. Brain, Behavior
and Immunity, 17(suppl. 1):S51-57, 2003.
Bilkis, Rev. M., Mark, K. Mind-body medicine: Practical applications in dermatology.
Archives in Dermatology, 134:1437-1441, 1998.
Clawson, T., Swade, R. The hypnotic control of blood flow and pain: The cure of warts
and the potential for the use of hypnosis in the treatment of cancer. Am J Clin
Hypn, 17:160-169, 1975.
Dikel, W., Olness K. Self-hypnosis, biofeedback, and voluntary peripheral temperature
control in children. Pediatrics, 66:335-340, 1980.
Hewson-Bower B., Drummond P. Secretry immunoglobulin A increases during relax-
ation in children with and without recurrent upper respiratory tract infections.
J Dev Behav Pediatr, 17:311-316, 1996.
Hall, H. et al. Voluntary modulation of neutrophil adhesiveness using a cyberphysiologic
strategy. Int J Neurosci, 63:287, 1992.
Hall, H., Minnes, L., Olness, K. The Psychophysiology of voluntary immunomodulation.
Int J Neurosci. 69:221-234, 1993
Hogan, M., Olness K., MacDonald J. The effects of hypnosis on brainstem auditory
responses in children. Am J Clin Hypn, 27:91-91, 1985.
Lea, R. et al. gut-focused hypnotherapy normalizes disordered rectal sensitivity in
patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Alimen and Pharm Ther, 17:635-42, 2003
Lee L., Olness, K. Effects of self-induced mental imagery on autonomic reactivity in
children, J Dev Behav Pediatr, 17:323-327, 1996.
Mertz, H., Morgan, V., Tanner, G. Regional cerebral activation in irritable bowel
sydrome and control subjects with painful and nonpainful rectal distension,
Gastroenterology, 118:842-848, 2000.
Olness, K., Culbert, T., Uden, D. Self-regulation of salivary immunoglobulin A by
children. Pediatrics, 83:66-71, 1989.
Olness, K. Pediatric psychoneuroimmunology: Hypnosis as a possible mediator: Po-
tentials and problems in Hypnosis: Current therapy, research and practice,
BU Universit Press, Amsterdam, 1990.
Palsson, O. S. et al. Hypnosis treatment for severe irritable bowel syndrome: Investi-
gation of mechanism and effects on symptoms, Digestive Disease and Science
47(11):2605-2614, 2002.
Rainville, P et al. Cerebral mechanisms of hypnotic induction and suggestion. J of
Cognitive Neurosci, 11:110-125, 1999.
Raz, A., Fan, J. et al. Hypnotic suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain.
Proceedings of the Natl Acad of Sciences, 10:9978-9983, 2005.
Raz, A., Kirsch, I. et al. Suggestion reduces the stroop effect Psychological Science.
17:91-95, 2006.
Raz. A. Genetics and neuroimaging of attention and hypnotizability may elucidate
placebo, Int J of Clin and Exper Hypn, 56:99-116, 2008.
Vileger, A., van den Berg, M., Menko-Frankenhuis, C., Tromp, E. No change in rectal
sensitivity after gut-directed hypnotherapy in children with functional abd-
dominal pain or irritable bowel syndrome. Amer J of Gastro, 105:213-218, 2010
CD’s:
Sapolsky, Robert. “Stress and Your Body” . Great Courses. The Teaching Company.