Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions: Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Gambling, Weight Control and Smoking Cessation - Paperback

by Joseph Tramontana (Author)

This book offers new strategies, techniques, and scripts as well as reviewing traditional methods of treating addictions.

The five key addictions addressed are:

• alcohol abuse and dependency
• drug abuse and addiction
• gambling compulsions/obsessions and addiction
• tobacco addiction (including cigars, pipes and chew)
• food addiction/compulsions.

Many of the techniques and strategies incorporate a variety of therapeutic modalities, including: cognitive-behavioural techniques, re-framing and other NLP techniques, systematic desensitization, covert sensitization, 12-step-programs, guided imagery and meditation, and more. The techniques described can be employed both in and out of trance.