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The Voice of Complementary Medicineautumn 200 9
Hypnotherapy – A Time To FocusICNM Awards Launch
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Th e ICNM is launching the fi rst ever ICNM Complementary Health Awards 2009. Th e Awards come as the ICNM celebrates the 20th anniversary of the British Register for Complementary Practitioners (BRCP) and will recognise comple-mentary medicine practitioners, students and organisations for their achievements and for raising the profi le of complementary medicine.
Th e Awards are being supported by Natural Health, the only monthly glossy magazine specialising in CAM.
Th e Awards will comprise four categories: Best Complementary Medicine Student, Best Complementary Practitioner, Outstanding Contribution to Complementary Medicine, and Best Complementary Medicine Company.
Chair of the ICNM Trustees Beverly Martin says: “Th e ICNM Awards provide a great opportunity for complementary medicine practi-tioners to showcase their achieve-ments. Th e Awards are also part of the continuing eff orts of the ICNM to raise the standards and profi le of complementary medicine generally both within the CAM sector and to a wider audience.”
We will be looking to our Members to nominate not only themselves
but others as well. Who do you think is the best practitioner in the UK? Do you have a favourite complementary practitioner, holistic health centre, natural health company or association? Now is the chance to sing their praises? Th e four categories include:
Th e Best Complementary Medicine Student will be nominated by a tutor or teacher and will be based on a range of criteria including class performance, coursework, supervised practice and case studies.
Th e Best Complementary Practitioner will include nominations from colleagues and patients or be self-nominated. Nominators will be asked to provide evidence and a case study to support the nomination. Initially, six winners will be chosen for this category, one from each region: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, London and the southeast, the southwest, and northern England.
Yin Yang Skincare, specialists in formulating pure botanical & mineral skincare and therapeutic creams, is sponsoring this category and has agreed to award each regional winner with a Yin Yang gift pack worth £55.
Outstanding Contribution to Complementary Medicine will include nominations from
anywhere within the medical or complementary medicine sector or the general public. Th e nominees will be individuals or groups who stand out from the crowd because of the work or contribution they have made to complementary medicine.
Best Complementary Medicine Company will be nominated from practitioners and the general public who need to provide information on the quality of service provided by the company to either practi-tioners or the general public, or both.
Director of Marketing & Communication at the ICNM Yvonne Wilcox adds: “Th is is an exciting time to be launching these awards. Complementary medicine is becoming increasingly high profi le and this is just the right time to be launching an Awards programme to recognise the work that is being done in this fi eld.
“I would urge all our readers to get involved in these Awards by either nominating someone or a company or making sure they are nominated.”
You can download a copy of the nomination form from the website www.icnm.org.uk or contact us by phone and we will send one to you. Entries close on 30th November 2009.
First Ever ICNM Awards for Complementary Medicine
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Reviewing:
Harald Walach and Wayne B Jonas’s paper explores research conducted on placebo eff ects and says that while there have been many studies into placebo eff ects, the real issue is whether psycholog-ical processes and social contexts “that facilitate hope, expectation, positive feelings, relief of anxiety and anticipation of improvement, are able to truly aff ect psychological processes and contribute to healing over and above pharmacologically mediated processes.”
Walach and Jonas (2004) looked at the evidence from literature and experiments on psychological processes and maintain that this body of literature shows that behind the facade of placebo eff ects is the self-healing capabilities of the person, an element that is normally neglected. Th ey further argue that the literature teaches us
“how we could maximise healing by harnessing these factors in any therapeutic context”.
In terms of CAM, the most pertinent conclusion in this review is that optimal healing occurs when patients’ hopes are realised; these being that an intervention should cause no harm, be safe, without side eff ects, and is curative. Th e implication of this fi nding is that it “should be mandatory” (Ibid 2004) that every physician and therapist fi nd out what their patients’ expectations are and move them in a positive direction.If there are multiple treatment choices available, the one which most conforms to their patients’ expectations for improvement should be used. Th is includes using “natural products” rather than “chemical ones”, if that is the preference of the patient, because,
Looking For The Placebo Effect
By Jan Davidson-Sofair
Harold Walach and Wayne B. Jonas (2004) Placebo Research: Th e Evidence Base for Harnessing Self-Healing Capabilities, Th e Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, pp. S-103-112.
“this preference has clinically important infl uences”, (Ibid 2004). According to the paper, if this is understood and the information used “intelligently”, optimal healing environments could be developed.
What emerges from these fi ndings is that the way forward for general health care might be the integration of all of our medical systems. For optimum healing the best of conventional and CAM treatments should be intelligently utilised. Patients should also be included in the decision making about their choices of preferred treatment.
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It is a time of so much progressive change at the ICNM, coming when a lot is changing within the wider CAM world as well. Th is includes more accountability and more regulation accompanied by an increased awareness of complemen-tary therapy and its potential.
Practitioners are now being faced with increasing, and often confusing, options regarding profes-sional association and development. Th e ICNM has always been involved with and supports the regulatory process, and as Members know, the BRCP promotes its Practitioners in terms of Best Practice, both within the profession and to the general public. Additionally, BRCP admission is normally above the level required by the National Occupational Standards (NOS) - the entry level required, for example, for the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC).
In view of these national changes, we therefore feel it is useful to suggest that Practitioners who wish to come under the Regulatory umbrella for their discipline could consider dual membership, with the BRCP continuing to look after our Members’ professional interests and career path. Th is trend for dual membership has been emerging professionally for some years within the Counselling and Psychotherapy fi eld. We believe it could be a useful option and way forward in the CAM disciplines as well.
Another exciting development will be the ICNM’s presence at CAM Expo in October (see story on page 6). CAM Expo is one of the best known and well attended events in the CAM sector and this will provide a further opportunity for
the ICNM to raise its profi le and encourage new membership.
In the last issue we briefl y mentioned the ICNM Awards 2009. We expect that the Awards, the fi rst of their kind in this sector, will set the standard for identifying and rewarding excellence in the fi eld of CAM. (See story on page 3). Please encourage your clients, friends and colleagues to nominate someone for one or more of the categories.
Meanwhile, we have forged ahead with our plans for Collaborative Membership status for organisa-tions, as well as introducing a Senior Practitioner level for our more experienced Members. Forms for each of these are on the website.
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I am very pleased to announce that the members of Th e General Natural Practitioners Guild have become Collaborative Members of the ICNM. We look forward to a productive association with them.We wish all our readers an enjoyable and progressive Autumn.
Beverly MartinChair to the Trustees
6 | autumn 2009
In July, the ICNM took part in a seminar conducted as part of the Westminster Health Forum entitled Th e Role of Prevention & Early Diagnosis in Healthcare.
ICNM Advisor and BRCP Senior Practitioner Dr Damir Shakambet was asked to talk about the com-plementary medicine sector in a keynote address entitled: Th e role of innovation, new equipment and medicine. Th e theme of the session included: what is the role of new diagnostic equipment in the early detection of illness; does more money need to be made available for research and development to support early diagnosis and deal with new disease forms; can the drug approval process be responsibly speeded up to ensure that medicine is available sooner at the point of use; does comple-mentary medicine have a role to play in prevention and treatment of illness; and how will personal budgets and self-medication impact on current healthcare provision.
Dr Shakambet is the founder of the London-based Biomedic Centre and Research Foundation. Th e Biomedic System of Integrated Medicine is a drug-free, process-oriented therapy where your principle therapist is a medical doctor with expertise in alternative and complementary medicine.
Biomedicine incorporates a broad range of conventional and comple-mentary therapies. Th ese therapies are aimed at restoring and facilitat-ing the physical, psychological, nutritional, bioenergetic and environmental aspects of a person’s health.
At the seminar, Dr Shakambet applauded the comments by other speakers on early diagnosis, but he was more interested in the actual prevention of disease. He said clinicians often overlooked the early stages of illness, before the disease was even diagnosable.
“Th e problem with the current medical model is that it is an empirical model based on a linear cause and eff ect. Doctors look for a diagnosis and then devise a treatment.
“But disease does not happen overnight. Th e current static model waits for the disease to occur. I suggest a dynamic model in which we reverse the disease and we apply early intervention in the very early stages of development. We need to look at pre-symptomatic stages,” he said.
Dr Shakambet says that all chronic diseases contain pre-somatic symptoms that, if identifi ed, could prevent the progression of an illness to a malignant disease. For example, pre-somatic symptoms relating to heart disease include palpitations or cold extremities.
Responding to a comment from the fl oor about the bad track record for diagnosing endometriosis in this country, Dr Shakambet said there were many pre-somatic pointers for this disease including nutritional and hormonal changes and if these were picked up early enough the situation would not be so acute.
A biomedic doctor’s basis in orthodox medicine is always present. Th e fi rst job with a patient is to make a standard diagnosis as any GP might. In cases where people go to them with an existing condition, be it cancer, Aids or backache, a biomedic doctor does not interfere with prescribed medication. Th e aim is to integrate the existing system rather than to replace it.
For more information go to: www.biomedic.co.uk
The ICNM goes to CamExpoTh e ICNM will be exhibiting at CamExpo this year which is taking place at London’s Earls Court Exhibition Centre on October 23 – 25.
Th e two-day show will provide an excellent platform for the ICNM to promote the work that we do for the general
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE
public as well as introduce and raise awareness of the BRCP to the public as well as other practitioners. We will also be using this opportunity to promote the ICNM Awards to a wider public.
We would encourage any of our Members who are at the show to visit the ICNM stand to get to know the team as well as give us any feedback on the work we are doing.
If you haven’t booked a ticket yet, why not consider attending the event. Th ere are some special deals on if you book before a certain time. Go to www.camexpo.co.uk for further details.
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PRIZE GIVINGCongratulations to the winners of our Book Competition. Th e following Members will be receiving a free copy of the book they entered into the draw for:
Josephine Chorley (Refl exologist from Essex) – Rough Guide to Happiness
Antonietta Ferrelli (Massage therapist from Middlesex) – Eternal Spring
Maureen Fanthom (Acupuncturist from Ireland) – Grow your Own Drugs
Meanwhile, Lee Everitt (Healer/Counsellor from Berkshire) will be receiving a £30 M&S voucher after recommending Sally Ackerman (Meditation/Healing) from London as a new Member.
Congratulations to all our winners and welcome to Sally.
Diary of Events
Gloucestershire’s Mind Body and Soul Weekend ExpoWhen: 10th / 11th October 2009 Where: Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham. GL52 3JEFor more information: www.naturalhealthshows.co.uk
CAMEXPO 2009 – Complementary and Natural Healthcare ExpoWhen: 24th – 25th October 2009 Where: Earls Court, LondonFor more information: www.camexpo.co.uk/camexpo2009/public/enter.aspx
Sensation Refi ned Re-Defi ned: Homeopathy for the Next GenerationWhen: 31st October – 1st November 2009 Where: Kingston University, LondonFor more information: www.aroga.co.uk/events
British Society of Dowsers: Health Special Interest Group EventWhen: 31st October Where: Th e Village Hall, the Street, Compton, Nr Guildford, Surrey GU3 1EGFor more information: [email protected]
Mind, Body and Soul WeekendWhen: 7th – 8th November 2009Where: Clarendon Suites, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 9SBFor more information: [email protected]
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By Jo-Anne FlackTh e world of the so-called “talking therapies” is in a state of fl ux at the moment as the Government continues its relentless regulation quest.
Hypnotherapy is not immune to the current instability and, in fact, is more vulnerable to the slings and arrows of regulation as it is not even classifi ed as psychotherapy.
Secretary of the British Society of Hypnotherapists Sharon Young is particularly scathing about what she terms “compliance compulsion” and points out that all the great pioneers of both psychotherapy and hypnotherapy of the 19th and 20th centuries would not have been able to practise under the current increasingly stringent regulations.
“Regulation stifl es innovation. Th erapy changes with every generation. It has to renew itself. Even psychoanalysis has changed hugely since it started. We are now seeing people with serious social defi cits because of the kind of society we live in,” she says.
Young refers to fears that have been raised about the so-called harm that can be done with hypno-therapy and accepts that standards of training need to be as high as possible.
“Some people are good hypno-therapists and others are not. But regulation is not the answer to incompetent therapy. We just need to look at the General Medical Council to see that it does not actually protect patients against damage. Th e medical model of regulation is not a great model to look to for protecting the public,” Young adds.
She points out that the public has recourse against incompetent hypnotherapists through common law. “Hypnotherapy is a human interaction. Th ere are ethics and standards that need to be kept.
Young is also clear that hypno-therapists who see people with life-threatening illnesses don’t need to be medically qualifi ed to do so (see accompanying article).
“When you see someone suff ering from a life-threatening illness, you are dealing with fear. If you are dealing with pain, you are also dealing with fear. If you are dealing with a patient’s conscious or sub-conscious, you don’t need to know any more than the patient does. All the therapist needs to know is what the patient is dealing with. You don’t need to be a cancer expert to deal with pain and fear.”
Young adds: “Th ere are serious decisions to be made in any society about the extent to which the state will attempt to control and limit the actions and access to resources of its citizens. Th e decisions made vary from society to society and from time to time. Th ere are advantages and disadvantages to every measure, and depending on their viewpoint diff erent people will have diff erent perspectives on this.
“People may visit an unregulated hypnotherapist and get poor treatment – but this could happen in any profession, regulated or not. Th e only people with an obvious interest in regulating therapies would appear to be those who qualify for registration under the regulations who may then hope
HYPNOTHERAPYHYPNOTHERAPY
By Dr Ann WilliamsonJulie, a 26-year-old solicitor, happily married for three years, was investigated at the local hospital for infertility. While waiting for IVF treatment, she came to me for help with her anxiety regarding pregnancy.
She had had a reasonably happy childhood and got on well with both her parents and a younger brother who lived nearby.
Hypnosis could give her a tool to use for keeping calm, giving her greater access to her unconscious mind, so if there was any underlying psychological diffi culty, we might be able to resolve it.
We entered hypnosis by using her breathing as a focus, followed by a progressive muscular relaxation during which she developed imagery of a calm, relaxing, safe and happy place (real or imaginary). I suggested ways that she might throw away negative feelings using imagery of a bonfi re or a rubbish chute and replace them with positive feelings which she visualised as pebbles that she
Inn the sseecoonnd ooff oouurr sseerriiess ffooccuussiinngg oonn aa ccoommpplementary medicine or therapy, the ICNM Journal llooookkss att ddiiffff eerreenntt vviieewwss oonn rreegguullaattiioonn aass wweelll as the usee oof hypnosis within a medical setting.
A CASE OF INFERTILITY
to reduce the currently openly competitive situation in which they fi nd themselves.”
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placed in her pocket to take with her. Whilst in hypnosis I also suggested she did self hypnosis, telling herself how long she was going to relax, taking a deep breath in, counting slowly up to three on the out breath.
At her next visit, she felt calmer and we set up ideomotor signalling which utilises muscle movement akin to unconscious head nodding, or gesticulating whilst talking. While in hypnosis I asked her to allow her unconscious to raise a fi nger to indicate a yes response without trying to move it or stopping it move. Her right index fi nger moved for yes and her right ring fi nger moved for no. I then as her if her unconscious mind knew of any psychological block to pregnancy. She told me that when she got married, her mother told her she couldn’t be a proper mother if she also had a career in law. I suggested to her that this was her mother’s opinion, not hers. I then asked her to imagine travelling down to her ovaries and visualise them. Both were red and black spheres which she felt needed to become redder and less black to feel completely right. I asked her to start the change and to give me a yes signal once she had completed whatever she needed to do. I then suggested a visualisation of conception, implantation and delivery to allow her to check intuitively of there was any obvious problem which fortunately there was not.
She used her self hypnosis and visualisation and happily, a few months later, she was pregnant. Whether hypnosis had reduced her anxiety levels so that it was easier to conceive or whether her work in hypnosis had resolved any psychological block, it is impossible to say. But her self-hypnotic skills will come in very useful when she has to cope with sleepless nights.
Dr Williamson has been a Lancashire-based GP for about 32 years and became an accredited Hypnotherapist in 1995.
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By Jacky OwensHypnosis is a useful tool for reaching a level of consciousness which exerts a powerful infl uence on the physical body, but which is not easily accessible by other means. It has long been known that, through hypnosis, behavioural change can be eff ected and phobias eradicated.
Where hypnotherapy is available, some quite remarkable achieve-ments have been recorded in the group of people who have a medical diagnosis. It has proved to be an excellent method of analgesia, even facilitating minor surgery. Among the symptom responses noted in the literature are: pain relief, nausea abatement (especially chemotherapy induced nausea) temperature control and removal of warts. Using hypnotic skills can enable patients to relax physically and mentally and be co-operative with necessary interventions. In short, it is an empowering therapy enabling patients to retain a sense of control over their situation.
Some of those illnesses labelled psychosomatic disorders, for example phobias, can respond amazingly well to hypnotic inter-ventions. In some people very real and, in some cases, life-changing phenomena occur through the medical use of hypnosis.
Evidence provided through the modern technological advances of fMRI and PET scanning used in hypnosis research demonstrates that brain changes take place during hypnotic responding and some mind body interconnections are demonstrated in psycho-neuro-immunology (pni) research.
I suspect the many people are aware of the lay use of hypnosis in stage presentations and through media coverage, but I am talking about the serious work done with people’s mental and physical health.
Th e divide between the medical and lay societies is wide and at present there is no meeting of the
ways. Th e medical societies believe that to treat illness using any modality you have to understand the illness and its ramifi cations. Th is is the prerogative of medicine – I use the term medicine here in its broad sense to include all healthcare-trained professionals. Th e key protection rests in having an accountable body that people register with in order to aff ord protection for the patients. For healthcare professions (doctors, dentists, nurses, radiographers, psychiatrists, psychologists etc) their registering bodies are this safeguard. Th e lay registering bodies do not have the same ability to protect patients.
Th e British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis (BSCAH), along with its sister Societies of Th e British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis Scotland and Th e Section of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine are Societies of Health Care Professionals whose members, although trained in the use of hypnosis, primarily uphold the code of conduct laid down by their registering bodies and only treat with hypnosis what they are trained to treat without hypnosis. Th ese Societies are constituent members of the European Society of Hypnosis (ESH) set up to oversee the hypnosis practise throughout Europe and beyond.
I would therefore urge anyone who feels hypnosis would be of benefi t to them to seek out a registered healthcare professional who has been properly trained in the use of hypnosis as an adjunct to their established practice.
Jacky Owens is a Member of the BRCP; President, Section of Hypnosis; and Psychosomatic Medicine, Royal Society Medicine and Honorary Secretary of the BSCAH.
fMRI refers to functional magnetic resonance imaging | PET refers to Positron emission tomography
The case for qualifi cation
10 | autumn 2009BOOK REVIEWS
MEO THE RAINBOW TRAVELLERMeo – Th e Rainbow Traveller is a series of nine books designed to inspire children to identify colours with moods.
Colour is believed to help in healing various emotional, mental and physical ailments, and these stories are aimed to develop colour awareness and colour associations for the child. It connects the child to their emotions and feelings through colour.
Children will be drawn in by the illustrations that will support the assimilation of a particular colour through their eyes. Th e words used in the story are key words of that colour they will add to the visual eff ect.
Th e books are written by Kheli Italiano, a colour therapist and BRCP Member.
HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL THERAPISTHave you ever wondered how to deal with clients who want a treatment late at night, or beg you to reduce your fees for them? How do you decide where to work? Should you be self employed or form a partnership?
In this new edition of How to be a Successful Th erapist, Celia Johnson and Helen Parkins share their experience, wisdom and expertise to help therapists work successfully. Th e book covers every aspect of running a practice from choosing a couch and fi nding
reliable suppliers to dealing with complaints from clients and creating good relationships with colleagues in similar fi elds.
From your early days in training until your very last client, this book will guide you through the maze of legal, professional and practical issues you will encounter.
Th e ICNM has a copy of How to be a Successful Th erapist to give away to one lucky reader. Simply go to the ICNM website (www.icnm.org.uk) and follow the Journal link.
RECIPES MADE WITH CAREBeing a carer of a relative or loved one can be a very time consuming
occupation, leaving little to prepare and cook wholesome meals.
Angela Hamlin of Draycott Nursing & Care came up with the concept of Recipes Made with Care. She comments “Th e need for a recipe book became apparent when inter-viewing prospective carers or nurses. When asked what their cooking skills were like, they often said they were good cooks. But really, their repertoire often consisted of cooking sausages or stir-fry. I decided that something had to be done.”
Angela asked cook Carolyn Peacock and the nutritionist Scott Marsden (senior dietician of the London Clinic) to help. Th e result is an appetising collection of menus
for 28 days, with three diff erence recipes for each day. Th e aim is to help carers to provide healthy meals with the essential nutrients in the correct quantities to promote wellbeing and recuperation.
Joanna Lumley, in her foreword to the book, says: “Appetising meals are essential to nursing a person back to health. Having come across people who need care at home, I appreciate how important meals are to those who are confi ned to their home.”
Th e ICNM has two copies of Recipes Made with Care to give away. Simply go to the ICNM website (www.icnm.org.uk) and follow the Journal link.
Information on the books can be found at www.meobooks.com.
Th e ICNM has a copy of Meo-Th e Rainbow Traveller and his Adventures through Turquoise to give away. It is summertime and Meo jumps into the sea with his diving gear where he meets Betsy, a Caribbean fi sh who stares ahead and doesn’t speak. How will Meo help her talk again with his Turquoise magic?
Go the ICNM website (www.icnm.org.uk) and follow the Journal link and one lucky reader will have the chance of winning this book.
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NEW MEMBERS June 09 to-dateName: Laurence Bridot, LondonDivision: Homoeopathy Name: Rosemary Nadin,
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(Acupuncture)Name: Florence Parot Verrier, KentDivision: General (Sophrology)Name: Sally Ackerman, LondonDivision: Healer Counsellor Name: Zoe Bennett, West SussexDivision: Sound Th erapyName: Matthew Edward Beavies,
KentDivision: Sound Th erapyName: Jeniya Gwendu, BasildonDivision: Massage Name: Geraldine Quinn, MiddlesexDivision: Bowen TechniqueName: Lisa Riley, West YorkshireDivision: Oriental Medicine Name: Mark Redhall, YorkshireDivision: Homoeopathy Name: Tammy Day, CambridgeshireDivision: Refl exologyName: Dr Raheela Shaikh,
BirminghamDivision: HomoeopathyName: Yue Liu, LondonDivision: Oriental MedicineName: Stephen Scotney,
LeicestershireDivision: Sound Th erapyName: Rajesh Divakaran, MiddlesexDivision: Indian Medicine Name: Sophie Whitaker, ExeterDivision: Oriental Medicine Name: Grant Smith, BerkshireDivision: Sound Th erapyName: May Lucken-Ardjomande,
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New Senior PractitionersName: Tom Blaen, DevonDivision: Energy Medicine Name: Angela Blaen, DevonDivision: Energy Medicine Name: David Shepard, OxfordDivision: Homoeopathy, Bioenergetic
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