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Summer 2010 Volume 51 Number 2

A Publication of the

Society for Clinical & Experimental Hypnosis

Dear SCEH Members, There is only one month left until our Annual Meeting in Boston on November 10-14, 2010! Arreed Barabasz has assembled an amaz-ing scientific program, and Max Shapiro, Claire Frederick, and Elgan Baker have arranged workshops with great faculty to teach partici-pants with all levels of experience. Irving Kirsch will come from Great Britain to be our banquet speaker. Our Executive Director Michele Hart has been busy making it all happen administratively and Marilee Snyder has made great strides in marketing SCEH and the meeting. Please reg-ister soon – hotel rooms (at a great rate for Boston hotels) are going quickly. It is particularly gratifying to see among presenters and registrants many names coming back after a hiatus of years and also having many new and international colleagues partici-pate. For the upcoming meeting, I wish to further build and solidify a sense of community at SCEH. We will have a luncheon business meeting for the membership on Saturday, November 13. The Ex-ecutive Committee and Executive Council want to be more accountable and visible to the member-ship; most importantly, we seek more of your in-put. I am sending out a call for volunteers to those who are interested in shaping the direction of SCEH. Please contact me

([email protected]) or Michele Hart

([email protected] or 508-598-5553)

about your interests and ideas. There is much happening and much help needed. We are currently fine-tuning our new Certification in Hypnosis which will emphasize life-long learning in ways that will ulti-mately benefit the entire field of hypnosis. Along these lines we would like to see new input within committees dealing with our educational mission and approaches, credentialing, membership, student issues, scholarships, awards, recruit-ment of the next generation of leaders in SCEH, strategic planning, and international rela-tions. Under Tom Nagy’s chair-manship a SCEH-ASCH inter-disciplinary group is working on issues pertaining to hypnosis in electronic media form.

These are exciting times in the field of hypnosis – where we can really make great strides to inte-grate our passion into mainstream medicine and mental health. I am very much looking forward seeing you all in Boston and on the journey ahead.

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Elvira Lang, MD, FSIR, FSCEH

President, SCEH

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President’s Editorial—

By Elvira Lang President SCEH

SCEH Focus Summer 2010

The International

Society of Hypnosis

Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal

Awarded to:

Karen N. Olness, M.D. USA

Distinguished scholar, pioneering scientist, author,

and advocate for the world's children. For your far-

reaching, tireless leadership and your model

of research, teaching, and helping children help

themselves.

2009 Ernest R. Hilgard

Award for Scientific Excellence

Awarded to:

Guiseppe DeBenedittis, MD, Italy

whose lifetime of published experimental work

substantially advances the understanding of the

process of hypnosis and the ability to predict the

outcome of its applications.

2009 Jay Haley Early Career Award

for

Innovative Contributions to Hypnosis

Awarded to:

Woltemade Hartman, PhD, South Africa

To awardees early in their career whose writing,

teaching, leadership and clinical/scientific work

have shown substantive advances in the under-

standing of practice of hypnosis.

2009 Jay Haley Early Career Award

for Innovative Contributions to

Hypnosis

Awarded to:

Claude Virot, MD, France

Early in their career whose writing, teaching, lead-

ership and clinical/scientific work have shown

substantive advances in the understanding of prac-

tice of hypnosis.

2009 Pierre Janet Award for

Clinical Excellence

Awarded to:

Richard P. Kluft, M.D. USA

whose lifetime of published clinical experience

substantially advances the understanding of the

uses of hypnosis in obtaining effective results in

clinical practice

The Kay F. Thompson, D.D.S. Award

for Clinical Excellence in Den-

tistry:

Awarded to:

Albrecht Schmierer, DMD Germany

The Kay Thompson Award for Clinical Excellence in

Dentistry - to awardees whose lifetime of demonstrated

clinical experience substantially advances the under-

standing of the uses of hypnosis in obtaining effective

results in dental practice.

Awards

2009

Volume 51, Number 2

SCEH

Conference

In

Historic

BOSTON

Last Chance to Get in on It!

( But if you just want to show up and register that’s OK too.)

61st Annual Workshops and

Scientifc Sessions

November 10-14, 2010 in

Boston, Massachusetts.

Boston Hyatt Harborside 101 Harborside Drive

Boston, Massachusetts 02128

http://www.harborside.hyatt.com/

Please mention the SCEH Fall Meeting to receive preferred rates of $149/night. In order to guarantee the SCEH room rate of $149/night for a single or double you must book your room by October 20, 2010.


Conference ScheduleConference ScheduleConference ScheduleConference Schedule::::

Wednesday, November 10, Evening Workshop Co‐‐‐‐Chairs: Max Shapiro, PhD, Claire

Frederick,MD, & Elgan Baker, PhD

Introductory Workshop in Clinical Hypnosis 22 CEs/CMEs

Wed: 6:00 pm—9:15 pm, Thurs: 8:00 am—6:00 pm,

Fri: 8:00 am—6:00 pm, Sat: 8:45 am—12:00 pm

The Pursuit of Excellence: An Introduction to the Psy-

chological Hypnosis

Diplomate Examination Elgan Baker, PhD, ABPP, ABPH; David Wark, PhD, ABPH; Charles Burbridge, PhD, ABPH

2 CEs/CMEs

Wednesday Evening 6:30 pm—8:30 pm

The Self Compassion Diet Jean Fain, MSW, LICSW

3 CEs/CMEs

Wednesday Evening 6:15 –9:30

Using Hypnosis to Enhance Creativity Stephen Kahn, PhD, Nancy Riemer, LICSW, Alisa Courtney, LCPC

3 CEs/CMEs


Master Class I: Ideomotor Signals in Hypnosis Dabney Ewin, MD

3 CEs/CMEs


Coffee Breaks: Please note that coffee service will be available

this evening in Rafaello—2nd Fl.

Thursday, November 11, Morning Workshops *Coffee Break: 10 am—10:15 am

Rafaello—2nd Fl

Master Class II: Ego Strengthening Claire Frederick, MD

3 CEs/CMEs

Thursday morning 8:15—11:30

Stepping into Possibilities: Ego State Therapy in Three

Dimensions Susan Dowell, LICSW; Rick Miller, LICSW

3 CEs/CMEs


Self Regulation Strategies and Body‐‐‐‐Mind Balance Darlene A. Osowiec, PhD

3 CEs/CMEs


Thursday, November 11, Afternoon Work-

shops *Coffee Break: 2:30 pm—2:45 pm

Rafaello—2nd Fl

Master Class III: Managing Chronic Pain David Patterson, PhD, ABPH; Mark Jensen, PhD

3 CEs/CMEs

Thursday afternoon 1:15—4:30

The Door in the Wall: Hypnotic Coping Techniques Adults

Can Learn from any Child Marilee Snyder, LICSW

3 CEs/CMEs


Future Focused Hypnotherapy Moshe Torem, MD

3 CEs/CMEs


Thursday, November 11, Full Day Workshops *Coffee Breaks: 10 am—10:15 am; 2:30 pm—2:45 pm

THE SCEH 2010 ADVANCED

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

We have put together a workshop program with the

same kind of care two thoughtful chefs would use to

create a great menu for a special occasion. We have

looked for quality, substance, balance, complementar-

ity, and even the touch of mystery that new items can

bring. Our 2010 Advanced Workshop Program offers

what can truly be called an embarrassment of riches. It

presents a wide range of topics in hypnosis and an out-

standing faculty who are well-equipped to share their

knowledge. Participants can select topics in medicine,

surgery, mind-body work, and psychotherapy. Atten-

dees can choose among a variety of workshops such

as hypnotically facilitated therapeutic applications of

internal systems theory, hypnotizability assessment,

hypnosis for core renewal, and self-care strategies.

Our faculty includes international experts such as

David Patterson and Mark Jensen on pain manage-

ment, Carol Ginandes on Core renewal for Mind-Body

Healing. Richard Kluft on the Dissociative Disorders,

and Carolyn Daitch on Couples Therapy. They will be

bringing the most up-to-date and comprehensively in-

formed material in their fields. You should be prepared

to have a hard time choosing which workshops you will

attend, and whichever you have chosen, you should be

prepared to have great learning experiences.

Claire Frederick, M.D. and Elgan Baker, Ph.D., Ad-

vanced Workshop Co-Chairs

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Master Class V: Pediatric Hypnosis Julie Linden, PhD; Linda Thomson, PhD, MSN, APRN

3 CEs/CMEs

Friday afternoon 1:15—4:30

Hypnotic Approaches to Targeting and Restructuring

Neuropatterns in Cognitive

Therapy James Straub, EdD, LP/HSP; Vicki Straub, PhD, LP/HSP

3 CEs/CMEs

Friday afternoon 1:15—4:30

Hypnotic Treatment of Asthma in Children and

Adults: New Techniques and Outcomes Dabney Ewin, MD; Anthony Madrid, PhD

3 CEs/CMEs

Friday afternoon 1:15 —4:30

Maximizing the Clinical Response to Hypnosis of

Moderately Hypnotizable Patients Robert Karlin, PhD

3 CEs/CMEs

Friday afternoon 1:15 —4:30

Friday, November 12, Full Day Work-

shops Coffee Breaks: 10 am—10:15 am; 2:30 pm—2:45 pm

Rafaello—2nd Fl

Take the Load off Your Shoulders: Helping Thera-

pists Survive Their Own Professions Claire Frederick, MD

6 CEs/CMEs

Friday 8:30—4:30

Pain Control David Patterson, PhD, ABPH; Mark Jensen, PhD

6 CEs/CMEs

Friday 8:30—4:30

Using the PCI‐‐‐‐HAP to Assess Your Client’s Hypnotic

Talents Ronald J. Pekala, PhD

6 CEs/CMEs

Friday 8:30—4:30

Friday, November 12

Scientific Session Poster Sessions: Rafaello—2nd Fl

Considerations When Writing a Book or Book Chap-

ter Elvira V. Lang, MD; Joan Lewis, BA, M.Ed, MPH

Reinstatement of Child‐‐‐‐like Affect by Hypnotic Re-

gression Ciara Christensen; Arreed Barabasz, PhD; Marianne Bara-basz, EdD

Trance Enhancement of Core Renewal for Mind/

Body Healing Carol Ginandes, PhD, ABPP

6 CEs/CMEs

Thursday 8:30—4:30

Treating Pathological Dissociation and the Dissocia-

tive Disorders Richard P. Kluft, MD, PhD

6 CEs/CMEs


Hypnosis and Couple’s Therapy Carolyn Daitch, PhD

6 CEs/CMEs


Introduction to Internal Family Systems Therapy for

the Hypnotherapist Larry Rosenberg, PhD; Judith Osher, PsyD; Deborah Block, PhD

6 CEs/CMEs


Friday, November 12, Morning Work-

shops Coffee Break: 10 am—10:15 am

Rafaello—2nd Fl

Master Class IV: Alert Hypnosis David Wark, PhD, ABPH

3 CEs/CMEs

Friday morning 8:15—11:30

Hypnosis for Skin Procedures and Disorders Philip D. Shenefelt, MD, ABMH; Eleanor Laser, PhD

3 CEs/CMEs


Clinical Hypnosis in Peri‐‐‐‐Operative Settings & Pain

Management in Children and

Adolescents Haleh Saadat, MD, FAAP

3 CEs/CMEs


Physics, Consciousness and Disease: A New Para-

digm Dolores J. Bjorkman, RN, LCSW

3 CEs/CMEs


Friday, November 12, Afternoon Work-

shops Coffee Break: 2:30 pm—2:45 pm


Treatment of HPV with Hypnosis: A Controlled Investigation Arreed Barabasz, PhD; Linda Higley, PhD; Ciara Christensen; Marianne Barabasz, EdD

Hypnosis for Anger Management: Research and Applications David Godot, MA, Steve Kahn, PhD, Scott Hoye, MA; Luke Fairless, MA,; Ryan Kirk, MA

Friday, November 12

Scientific Session—Evening Skyline Ballroom—2nd Fl

1 CE/CME

Hypnosis and False Memories Ed Frischholz, PhD Discussants: Richard P. Kluft, MD; David Spiegel, MD Chair: Laurie S. Lipman, MD

Friday evening 7:00—8:00

Saturday, November 13

Scientific Session—Morning Skyline Ballroom—2nd Fl

3.0 CEs/CMEs

8:30—8:45

WELCOME: Opening of the 61st Annual Scientific Program Elvira V. Lang, MD

8:45—9:45

Virtual Reality Hypnosis for Trauma Pain Control David Patterson, PhD Chair: Elvira V. Lang, MD

Hypnosis, Cognitive Restructuring, and “Hypnotic Cognitive Re-

structuring” for Chronic Pain Management in Individuals with

Multiple Sclerosis David Patterson, PhD Chair: Elvira V. Lang, MD

9:45—10:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Role of Hypnosis in the Management

of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) Stephen Pauker, MD; Carolyn D’Ambrosio, MD; Noshir Mehta, DMD; Richard P. Kluft, MD; Ran Anbar, MD Chair: Ran Anbar, MD

10:30—10:45

Coffee Break, Rafaello ‐‐‐‐ 2nd Fl

10:45—11:45

How to Overcome the Prejudice Against Hypnosis in Medicine? Stephen Pauker, MD; Elvira V. Lang, MD Chair: Richard P. Kluft, MD

11:45—1:00

Luncheon Business Meeting—Skyline Ballroom For current SCEH Members only


Scientific Session—Afternoon Skyline Ballroom—2nd Fl

3.50 CEs/CMEs

1:00—1:30

Remembering Dr. Herbert Spiegel: Looking Back to go

Forward Marcia Greenleaf, PhD Chair: Arreed Barabasz, PhD

1:30—2:00

Hypnotizability Modification Training: An Examination of

Context and Simulation Effects Steven Jay Lynn, PhD; Michael Hallquist, PhD; John Williams, PhD; Abby Matthews, PhD; Michelle Accardi, MA; Colleen Cleere, MA; Joshua Knox, PhD, Oliver Fassler, PhD Chair: Steven Jay Lynn, PhD

2:00—3:00

PAPER SESSION Chair: Ronald J. Pekala, PhD

Hypnotic Visualization and Structured Attention Behaviour:

Does it Reduce the Patient’s Experience of Pain Intensity and

Anxiety During Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation?

Marianne NØrgaard, MVO; Birgitte Larsen, RN; Mette Rosendal Darmer, Msc; Preben U. Pedersen, RN, PhD

Trance State Effects and Imagery Vividness Before and During a

Hypnotic Assessment: A Partial Replication

Ronald Pekala, PhD; Ronald Maurer, MA

Preliminary Data on Hypnotically Induced Relaxation and Self‐‐‐‐

Guided Imagery During Dermatologic Procedures

Philip Shenefelt, PhD

3:00–3:50

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Tranceformation: Integrating

Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis David Spiegel, MD Chair: Marianne Barabasz, EdD

3:50‐‐‐‐4:00

Coffee Break, Rafaello ‐‐‐‐ 2nd Fl

4:00‐‐‐‐4:30

PAPER SESSION Chair: Marilee B. Snyder, LCSW, DCSW

Hypnotherapy for Adherence to Nutritional and Physical Activ-

ity Medical Recommendations During Pregnancy: A Preliminary

Study in Pregnant Obese Women

Isabelle Marc, MD, PhD; Nadia Chandonnet, BSc; Jean‐Marc Ben-haiem; Julie Robitaille,PhD; Sarah‐Louise Ferland, MSc; Alexandra Dufresne, MSc; Veronique Gingras, BSc; Angelo Tremblay, PhD

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The Use of Pre‐‐‐‐Operative Hypnosis in Women Undergoing

Breast Cancer Surgery Michael W. Lew, MD; Kathy Kravits, RN; Marcia Gran, DNSC; Carlos Garberoglio, MD; Anna Cathy Williams, RN

4:30– 5:30

PAPER SESSION Chair: & Discussant: Omar Sanchez‐Armass, PhD

Can we Model the Mirror Agnosia Pathway to the Mir-

rored‐‐‐‐Self Misidentification Delusion?

Michael H. Connors, BSc; Amanda J. Barnier, PhD; Max Coltheart, DSc; Robyn Langdon, PhD; Rochelle E. Cox, PhD

Parental Expectancies and Correlates of Hypnotic and Non

‐‐‐‐Hypnotic Suggestibility in a Sample of Puerto Rican Chil-

dren

Antonio J. Bustillo, PhD

Can Heightened Expectation Influence Perceptual Integra-

tion via Hypnotizability? Elucidating Orthogonal Perspec-

tives

Catherine Howells; Michael Lifshitz; Amir Raz, PhD

Factor Analysis of the Valencia Scale of Beliefs and Atti-

tudes Towards Hypnosis—Client Version: A Portuguese

Comparison Study of a Clinical and a Student Population Antonio Carneiro; Elisabete Santos; Ernesto Fonseca; Maria Emilia Areias; Antonio Capafons


Evening—Skyline Ballroom, 2nd Fl

7:00‐‐‐‐8:00: No Host Cocktail Reception

8:00‐‐‐‐10:00: Presidential Banquet and Awards Cere-

mony with Keynote Speech

Depression: The Myth of the Chemical Imbalance Irving Kirsch, PhD

Sunday, November 14

Scientific Session—Morning Skyline Ballroom—2nd Fl

2.50 CEs/CMEs 9:00‐‐‐‐9:30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Using Hypnosis to Gain Con-

trol Over Increasingly Automatic

Processes: From Stroop to McGurk Amir Raz, PhD Chair: Michael H. Connors, BSc (Hons)

9:30‐‐‐‐10:00

PAPER SESSION Chair & Discussant: Arreed Barabasz, PhD

Mapping Agency Changes in the Hypnotic State, Hypnotic

Analogues & Clinical Cases

Vince Polito

The Use of Ego State Theory and Practice for Smoking

Cessation Presented via the Modality of DVDS Richard H. Marchand, PhD

10:00‐‐‐‐11:00

PAPER SESSION Chair: Ciara Christensen

Heterogeneity in Hypnotizability: A Review of Theoreti-

cal Models Heterogeneity in Hypnotizability: A Review of

Empirical Findings

Devin Blair Terhune, MSc

11:00‐‐‐‐11:50

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Future of Hypnosis

Research: Neuroscience, Functional

Genomics and Bioinformatics Ernest Rossi, PhD Chair: Philip Shenefelt, MD

Sunday, November 14

Scientific Session—Afternoon Skyline Ballroom—2nd Fl

2.00 CEs/CMEs

11:50‐‐‐‐1:00

LUNCH BREAK

1:00‐‐‐‐2:00

PANEL DISCUSSION: Systemic Hypnotic Treat-

ment Modalities for Bullying and Other

Peer Terrorism Linda Thomson, PhD; Dave Gottsegan, MD Chair: Marilee B. Snyder, LCSW, DCSW

2:00‐‐‐‐2:50

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Determining the Determi-

nants of a Hypnosis Workshop

Casualty: An Exegesis and a Reflection Richard P. Kluft, MD Chair: Stephen Pauker, MD

2:50‐‐‐‐3:30

PAPER SESSION Chair & Discussant: Stephen Kahn, PhD

Hypnosis and Meditation

Charles Tart

The Spiritual Antecedents of Modern Hypnotic Interven-

tions David Smith, PhD

Hypnotic Trance, Quantum Mechanics, and Spirituality

as Aspects of Transformative Intersubjectivity in Effec-

tive Therapy Relationships

Janna Henning, PsyD

3:30– ADJOURN


SCEH and ASCH

WORKING TOGETHER

Over the past few years SCEH has joined with

ASCH in a number of endeavors. Starting in 2007

with the joint conference in Dallas, joint projects have

netted practitioners and researchers alike a more ac-

tive and expansive forum in which to work. Promi-

nent among these is the hypnosis listserv. This

listserv has over 800 members with many experts in

the field giving resources, articles and suggestions that

have helped a great many. George Glaser, Carol Low

and Steve Kahn among others have worked diligently

and steadily to make the hypnosis listserv a productive

and highly integrative enterprise. If you have not al-

ready joined, it is easy to do so if you are a member of

either ASCH or SCEH. Simply go to the ASCH web-

page at www.ASCH.net and click on the listserv tab

on the left and follow the directions.

Some of the recent initiatives have increased

the work that the 2 societies are doing together. This

past year, Rick Kluft successfully created an excellent

hypnosis workshop at the ISST&D conference staffed

by both SCEH and ASCH faculty. George Glaser

(Current ASCH president) and Elvira Lang (current

SCEH president) are completing the work begun years

ago at creating a joint Ethics committee, headed by

Tom Nagy that would undertake an extensive revision

of the Hypnosis Ethics Code. There is an ongoing

joint SCEH/ASCH task force that continues to be ac-

tively engaged in creating joint projects that help

forge a more prominent place for professional hypno-

sis.

Societies of Hypnosis: New Website for Hypnosis

One of these projects is the Societies of Hypnosis

webpage (www.societiesofhypnosis.com) which will

act as a conduit for information (both clinical and re-

search) for specialists, for the media and for the gen-

eral public. This website is still under construction,

but has been shaping up very nicely. Feel free to visit

this site at the link above. SCEH members will be

contacted in the very near future to be given a choice

if they would like to be listed either in the referrals

section or in the researchers section or both. As of

now, this site acts as the referral site for SCEH.

The website now has links to information about a

number of areas in the field. The informational pages

are being completed and will eventually be accompanied

by short informational videos as well. A new idea being

implemented is to send (on a regular basis) short emails or

even texts about hypnosis- information, ideas, etc.-- to

those who wish to receive it. You will be contacted about

this very soon.

Finally, if you have some suggestions about what you

would like to see included on this website, please feel free

to forward them to the website administrator. Simply go to

the website and click on the “Contact” button on the left.

—Steve Kahn, Ph.D.

Faneuil Hall Market Place….

Come to the conference in Boston and talk to Dr.

Kahn and others about further collaborations and

strengthening the bond between societies of hyp-

nosis.

www.societiesofhypnosis.com

Volume 51, Number 2

SCEH Student Corner:SCEH Student Corner:

The Adler Clinical Hypnosis Association

Scott Hoye, MA

Adler School of Professional Psychology

Adler Clinical Hypnosis Association

Last year, several graduate students at the Adler School

of Professional Psychology created a student organization to foster

interest in and \garnish greater understanding of hypnosis. The

Adler Clinical Hypnosis Association (ACHA) was founded under

the auspices of Stephen Kahn, and the initiative of Scott Hoye, a

doctoral graduate student at Adler.

“I was interested in making hypnosis more accessible to

students at the school.” Hoye explained. “The Adler School has a

long history of programming in hypnosis, but I had noticed that

support and interest had apparently dwindled among the student

body. My intention was to create an organization that could nur-

ture dormant interest, help to revive the programming, and to pro-

vide a means for informal an gathering place where students could

share ideas and their enthusiasm for the techniques that make this

a powerful, creative adjunct to psychotherapy.”

This year, Adler doctoral student David Godot has

stepped into the role of president. “One of the things I appreciate

the most about the clinical hypnosis community is the tendency to

emphasize results. The Adler School of Professional Psychology

curriculum has increasingly emphasized diversity and social re-

sponsibility, often at the expense of pragmatic clinical theory and

technique. As a result, many students have found themselves hun-

gry for skills that can be directly applied to clinical situations. My

goal for ACHA is to provide a venue for students to discover and

become proficient in the use of practical clinical tools for produc-

ing both remedial and generative change in their therapy clients.”

Melissa Doman, a student in the Adler counseling psy-

chology program and current ACHA secretary added that it is im-

portant for aspiring clinicians to learn hypnosis as a major aspect

of their practice. “As developing clinicians, it is paramount to

learn about a myriad of evidence-based therapeutic modalities that

can help our future clients. ACHA aims to provide useful and

practical knowledge about the benefits of hypnosis and how it

can be coupled with almost any treatment approach to provide

effective holistic care.”

Last year was the inaugural year for ACHA, and activity

consisted of planning for the current academic year. This year,

ACHA has several initiatives in the works. First, weekly meet-

ings are taking place wherein information about the history; theo-

ries and uses of hypnosis are discussed; executive committee

members also demonstrate simple techniques explained to more

neophyte students; and videos are also being screened, with pres-

entation and explanation provided to help broaden understanding

of the broad applications and styles of hypnosis.

Secondly, ACHA is working on outreach within the

greater Chicago area. In keeping with the Adler School’s mission

of community psychology and service, the executive committee

will be volunteering at a local area hospital. This outreach three-

fold—informing students, clinicians and mental health consumers

about the uses of hypnosis.

Weekly meetings have proven to be of great interest to

the Adler School student body, and turnout has been appreciative

of the practical application of hypnotic techniques. These include

2-hour sessions focused on specific, usable knowledge related to

clinical hypnosis. Hypnosis is connected to the greater realm of

schools of psychotherapy. “This includes hypnotic forms of

communication that take place within sessions that do not neces-

sarily include the formal use of hypnosis,” stated Godot.

ACHA is also open to other Chicago area students to

participate in their weekly hypnosis meetings, and within other

training offerings within the Chicagloland area.

“We are working with the Chicago Society of Clinical

Hypnosis to help expose more students to the remarkable utility

of clinical hypnosis,” Godot explained. “Ultimately, I believe the

programming we are developing for ACHA will help the mem-

bers of this student organization to become some of the most ef-

fective and enthusiastic clinicians that the Adler School will pro-

duce.”

Further outreach efforts are planned for the 2010-2011

academic year. ACHA will work in collaboration with Du Page

Community Clinic, a free healthcare clinic in Wheaton, Illinois.

The executive committee of ACHA will offer groups in relaxa-

tion, guided imagery, self-hypnosis, and further topics aimed at


REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR

The 61st Annual Workshops and

Scientific Program

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Harborside Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Twenty Advanced Workshops will explore a wide

spectrum of clinical specialties. New this year SCEH

offers five Master Classes rather than a unitary Inter-

mediate Workshop. Each three-hour Master Class will

have 1.5 hours of presentation by the Instructor and

1.5 hours of skills practice in small groups chaired by

the Senior Faculty.

Highlights from this year’s Scientific Program include:

Tranceformation: Integrating Clinical and Experi-

mental Hypnosis

David Spiegel, MD, Stanford University School of

Medicine

How to Overcome the Prejudice Against Hypnosis

in Medicine?

Stephen Pauker, MD, Tufts Medical Center and Elvira

Lang, MD, Harvard Medical School and Hypnalgesics,

LLC

The Future of Hypnosis Research: Neuroscience,

Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Ernest Rossi, PhD, MHE Institute of the California

Central Coast

Using Hypnosis to Gain Control over Increasingly

Automatic Processes

Amir Raz, PhD, McGill University

Depression: The Myth of Chemical Imbalance

Irving Kirsch, PhD, University of Hull

providing education about mental health for the underprivileged

population of that county. This is being spear-headed by Jessica

Gomez, Adler doctoral candidate and vice president of ACHA.

“ACHA will collaborate on a professional and patient level.

Members of ACHA will provide workshops to healthcare profession-

als outlining the use and benefits of clinical hypnosis for various

medical and psychological issues,” Gomez explained. “Patient work-

shops will focus on utilizing clinical hypnosis to increase well-being,

manage symptoms, and increase daily functioning. Overall, this part-

nership is based on the premise of social responsibility, which will

allow student members of ACHA the opportunity to be active par-

ticipants and advocates in community settings.“

The organization is also interested in outreach to other as-

piring clinicians in programs across the country and is prepared to

help support in their efforts at creating programming.

“If student members of SCEH or any other professional

organization are interested, we are available to provide support for

their efforts, and give them tips based on are current experience with

our early successes,” Hoye added. “We are available to help with

organization and programming, and would be interested in creating a

further coalition of gradate students interested in hypnosis.”

As for the future of hypnosis, Hoye, who this year took the

position of ACHA treasurer, thinks it is bright. “ Hypnosis has had a

resilient history. It always seems to be disparaged as snake oil and

hokum at one time or another, but likewise continues to rise from the

ashes to be discovered anew as valid by clinicians and researchers

alike. I’ll place my bet with hypnosis in general, and in particular

with the crowd that is discovering it for the first time at the Adler

School.”

For more information regarding ACHA, please contact Scott Hoye

shoye@my,adler.edu or David Godot [email protected]

Volume 51, Number 2

Obituaries:

LILLIAN E.

FREDERICKS

ABRAHAM, MD

LIFE STORY:

Lillian Elizabeth Fredericks Abraham, MD (known

professionally as Dr. Fredericks) was born in Vienna,

Austria on January 23, 1914 and died peacefully at

home on March 14, 2010.

Hitler’s invasion of Austria in 1938 caused her to flee

to New York where she lived with her brother, Kurt,

who had been living and working there for several

years. Despite knowing very little English, she en-

rolled in Columbia College and learned the language

by taking classes, primarily in the sciences. After less

than two years, she was accepted at Women’s Medical

College (which later became the Medical College of

Pennsylvania on Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.)

graduating in 1943 as a medical doctor.

Through mutual friends she met and then worked to-

gether with Hans A. Abraham, MD as a family physi-

cian in Mayfair and Elkins Park, caring for the

neighborhood families and making house-calls. Hans

and Lillian married on March 10, 1944, and had two

children, Richard P. Abraham and Carol Jeanne Abra-

ham Snowball . She was a resident of Philadelphia,

Pa., Palm Beach, Fl, and for the past five years has

resided with her daughter and son-in-law, Robert

Snowball, in Bellingham, WA. She was a member of

the Society of Friends, and regularly attended the

Greene Street Friends Meeting.

Dr. Fredericks successfully completed a three year

residency in Anesthesia at Hahnemann Hospital in

1952, and became Board Certified in that specialty.

She spent the rest of her career as an Anesthesiologist,

first at Albert Einstein Medical Center (where she was

Chief of Anesthesia for many years) and then for ten

years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsyl-

vania, until the mandatory retirement age of 70. She

was a Diplomat of the American Society of Anesthesi-

ology and the American Society of Medical Hypnosis,

as well as a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical

Hypnosis, the American Society of Clinical and Experi-

mental Hypnosis, and the International Society of Hyp-

nosis. She enjoyed teaching both medical students and

residents in anesthesia.

Dr. Fredericks was a pioneering member of the Ameri-

can Sociaty of Clinical Hypnosis, and was a strong pro-

ponent of the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to tradi-

tional anesthesia for surgery. She published articles in

the field of Anesthesia, and in 1966 authored a book

entitled "Anesthesia for Open Heart Surgery". At age

87 she published her last book entitled "The Use of

Hypnosis in Surgery and Anesthesiology - Psychologi-

cal Preparation of the Surgical Patient". In 1995 the

Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis hon-

ored Dr. Fredericks by granting her the Shirley

Schneck award for "Significant Contributions to the

Development of Medical Hypnosis".

Mrs. Abraham was not only a patron of the arts, col-

lecting many works by well known local and interna-

tional artists, but she was also an accomplished sculptor

in her own right, having studied at Tyler School of Art

as well as the Cheltenham Art Center. She also enjoyed

travelling and, in addition to all of Europe, had visited

China, India, New Zealand, Argentina, Peru, Japan,

Kenya and Russia.

Lillian Elizabeth Fredericks Abraham, MD is survived

by her two children, two grandchildren and four great

grandchildren.

SCEH LEADERSHIP President Elvira V. Lang, MD, FSIR, FSCEH

Associate Professor of Radiology

Harvard Medical School

157 Ivy St.

Brookline, MA 02446

(978) 404-9724

[email protected]

http://www.hypnalgesics.com

Past President Richard P. Kluft, MD

111 Presidential Blvd.

Suite 238

Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

(610) 667-3250

[email protected]

President Elect Stephen G. Pauker, MD

Tufts Medical Center

800 Washington St.

Boston, MA 02111

(617) 636-5910

[email protected]

Treasurer Marilee Sndyer, LCSW, DCSW

Boulder Mental Health Center

& Private Practice

1722 14th St. Suite 130

Boulder, CO 80302

(303) 413-6365

[email protected]

Secretary

Donald Moss, PhD 1703 S. Despelder

Grand HAven, MI 49417

(616) 842-1277

[email protected]

IJCEH Journal Editor

Arreed Barabasz, Ph.D.

Washington State University

P.O. Box 642136

Pullman, WA 99164-2136

(509) 335-8166

[email protected]

Executive Director SCEH

Michele Hart

PO Box 252

Southborough, MA 01772

P: 508-598-5553 (direct office line)

F: 866-397-1839

[email protected]

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www.sceh.us

SCEH ‘FOCUS’ Editor David Paul Smith, Ph.D.

Suite 212, St. Bernard’s Hosp.

326 West 64th Street

Chicago, IL 60621

(773) 962-4016

[email protected]

61st Annual Workshops &

Scientific Session

Program November 10‐‐‐‐14, 2010

Continuing Education

Continuing Medical Education (MDs only)

You MUST sign in at the start of each Workshop and/or at the start of each Scientific

Session (AM Sessions and PM Sessions). Please complete the evaluation form provided

by your faculty for each Workshop and/or Scientific Session and return to the SCEH

registration desk.

CMEs will be mailed to you directly from Bournewood Hospital within a few weeks

Evaluations must be returned to receive CMEs.

Continuing Education Units (non‐‐‐‐MDs)

Please refer to the instructions located in your CE packet. CE packets can be obtained

from the registration desk. You MUST sign in and sign out for each Workshop you at-

tend as well as for the Scientific Program daily. The sign-in/sign-out sheets will be at

the registration desk.

You will be required to complete an attendance log and a short evaluation form for

each session you attend. Attendance logs and evaluation forms are located in your CE

packet. Keep all CE forms together in your packet and return the packet to the regis-

tration desk the day you depart the Conference.

CEs will be mailed to you directly from The Institute of Continuing Education within a

few weeks.

Evaluations and attendance log must be returned to receive CEs.

PO Box 252

Southborough, MA 01772

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