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Hypnosis: The Application of Ideomotor Techniques by David Cheek, M.D., Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1994, 314 pages, $49.95.
Anyone wanting to explore the wonders of hypnosis (trance) can have no better guide than this friendly physician who has been exploring the territory for 50 years. Health care professionals looking for a practical method to reaching the underlying causes of medical and behavioral problems (for example, birth trauma) will find inspiration and instruction in these pages.
Members of our Association will be especially interested in the psychological insights which this obstetrician brings to a range of prenatal and perinatal problems. Cheek has been a pioneer in documenting birth trauma and birth imprinting (memory), in psychological prevention of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and in developing a method by which patients (as co-therapists and colleagues) can...