The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson: Volume 07 - Hardcover: Mind-Body Healing and Rehabilitation

This volume illustrates how classical psychosomatic medicine becomes psychosocial genomics just as surely as the 21st century becomes the 22nd. This is an example of how science is self-correcting and continually evolving. Erickson's Collected Works is updated with current concepts of neuroscience, psychosocial genomics, and bioinformatics for students, clinicians, and researchers who wish to extend his innovative therapeutic approaches into the future. Erickson mediated the transition between classical hypnosis as a curious alchemy of abnormal states of mental dissociation and suggestion to a new form of psychotherapy when he began publishing his early studies of psychosomatic phenomena in the 1930s.

Table of Contents

1. Erickson’s Pioneering Approaches to Mind-Body Healing
   • Hypnotic Investigation of Psychosomatic Phenomena: Psychosomatic Interrelationships Studied by Experimental Hypnosis
   • Hypnotic Investigation of Psychosomatic Phenomena: The Development of Aphasia-Like Reactions from Hypnotically Induced Amnesias (written with R. M. Brickner)
   • Hypnotic Investigation of Psychosomatic Phenomena: A Controlled Experimental Use of Hypnotic Regression in the Therapy of Acquired Food Intolerance
   • Experimentally Elicited Salivary and Related Responses to Hypnotic Visual Hallucinations Confirmed by Personality Reactions
   • Control of Physiological Functions by Hypnosis
   • The Hypnotic Alteration of Blood Flow: An Experiment Comparing Waking and Hypnotic Responsiveness
   • A Clinical Experimental Approach to Psychogenetic Infertility
   • Breast Development Possibility Influenced by Hypnosis: Two Instances and the Psychotherapeutic Results
   • Psychogenic Alteration of Menstrual Functioning: Three Instances
   • The Appearance in Three Generations of an Atypical Pattern of the Sneezing Reflex
   • An Addendum to a Report of the Appearance in Three Generations of an Atypical Pattern of the Sneezing Reflex
2. Erickson’s Innovative Approaches to Pain Resolution
   • An Introduction to the Study and Application of Hypnosis for Pain Control
   • The Therapy of a Psychosomatic Headache
   • Migraine Headache in a Resistant Patient
   • Hypnosis in Painful Terminal Illness
   • Hypnotic Training for Transforming the Experience of Chronic Pain
3. Erickson’s Pioneering Approaches in Rehabilitation
   • Hypnotically Oriented Psychotherapy in Organic Brain Damage
   • Hypnotically Oriented Psychotherapy in Organic Brain Disease: An Addendum
   • An Application of Implications of Lashley’s Researches in a Circumscribed Arteriosclerotic Brain Condition
   • Experimental Hypnotherapy in a Speech Problem
   • Provocation as a Means of Motivating Recovery from a Cerebrovascular Accident
4. Psychosocial Genomics of Mind-Body Healing for Rehabilitation
   • Psychosocial Genomics: Gene Expression, Neurogenesis, and Human Experience in Mind-Body Medicine (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • Stress-Induced Alternative Gene Splicing in Mind-Body Medicine (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • Gene Expression, Neurogenesis, and Healing: Psychosocial Genomics of Therapeutic Hypnosis (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • The Bioinformatics of Psychosocial Genomics in Alternative and Complementary Medicine (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • A Bioinformatics Approach to the Psychosocial Genomics of Therapeutic Hypnosis (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • The Memory Trace Reactivation and Reconstruction Theory of Therapeutic Hypnosis: The Creative Replaying of Gene Expression and Brain Plasticity in Stroke Rehabilitation (Ernest L. Rossi)
   • The Bioinformatics of Integrative Medical Insights: Proposals for an International Psychosocial and Cultural Bioinformatics Project (Ernest Rossi, Kathryn Rossi, Garret Yount, Mauro Cozzolino and Salvador Iannotti)
   • A Pilot Study of Positive Expectations and Focused Attention Via a New Protocol for Optimizing Therapeutic Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Assessed with DNA Microarrays: The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience (Ernest Rossi, Salvatore Iannotti, Mauro Cozzolino, Stefano Castiglione, Angela Cicatelli, Kathryn Rossi)
   • A New Bioinformatics Paradigm for the Theory, Research, and Practice of Therapeutic Hypnosis (David Atkinson, Salvatore Iannotti, Mauro Cozzolino, Stefano Castiglione, Angela Cicatelli, Bhaskar Vyas, Jane Mortimer, Richard Hill, Erika Chovanec, Alessia Chiamberlando, Jorge Cuadros, Claude Virot, Michel Kerouac, Theirry Kallfass, Stanley Krippner, Claire Frederick, Bruce Gregory, Michael Shaffran, Margaret Bullock, Ella Soleimany, April Cybil Rossi, Kathryn Rossi, Ernest Rossi)