A Follow-up Study in the Use of Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Psychogenic Impotency

Shamanic Healing, Human Evolution, and the Origin of Religion

“…Because psychopathologies influence rates of coital inability, conceptive failure, pregnancy loss, and infertility (McFalls 1979), shamanic/hypnotic treatments would be expected to affect fertility. Folklore from many localities coincides, to a degree, with hypnosis research in supporting this assumption (Crasilneck 1982;Venn 1986).…”

The scope and effectiveness of sex therapy.

“…In Smith et al's (1980) review of therapeutic benefit, hypnotherapy was found to be the second-most powerful of 18 methods. The hypnosis literature is full of reports of the successful treatment of sexual ailments: for example, Crasilneck (1982) claims 87% success with 100 impotent men with an average of only 10 treatment sessions, and this figure includes a one-year follow-up. Unfortunately, uncontrolled reports are the rule and controlled studies are rare (Brown & Chaves, 1980).…”

Enhancing hypnotizability and treatment responsiveness.

“…) Before presenting strategies to enhance hypnotizability, the issue of whether the level of hypnotic responsiveness matters significantly with regard to treatment outcome for various conditions deserves consideration. Hypnosis has been used as a means of treatment for many conditions, including anxiety disorders (Clarke & Jackson, 1983), impotence (Crasilneck, 1982), addictive disorders such as cigarette smoking (Holroyd, 1980) and alcoholism (Granone, 1971), obesity (Wadden & Flaxman, 1981), psychophysiological disorders including asthma (Neinstein & Dash, 1982), dermatological conditions such as warts (Tasini &. Hackett, 1977), and as a treatment for intractable pain stemming from various etiologies (Barber, 1986).…”