Integrating Mindfulness Practice in Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotic Psychotherapy
OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine May 6, 2022 Zahi Arnon
Integrating hypnosis into psychotherapy can shorten and strengthen the changes that mindfulness aims to produce, addressing challenges such as therapists not being formal mindfulness instructors and patients struggling to complete the standard eight-week mindfulness course. The article explains the rationale for this integration, illustrates it with a case study, and provides the underlying ideas, philosophy, and hypnotic scripts in an appendix.