Product reviews for Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions

Introduction.
There is a lot of interest in the high success rate of hypnotherapy right now. Largely because of the many claims made for hypnotherapy in the media. Yet hardly anyone writes for therapists, showing them to really work effectively in a thorough way dealing with specific addictions such as alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gambling, weight control, and smoking cessation. Well Dr Joseph Tramontana, in his seven chapter book does.
I really enjoyed reading Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions. Reading it's complete focus on -˜alcohol abuse, drug abuse, gambling, weight control, and smoking cessation,' felt more like talking with a really good friend. A very good friend, who I may add just happens to love their success around providing therapeutic interventions for unhelpful addictive behaviours. A very good friend who also just happens to be a world class expert in the subject. And a very good friend who is happy for you to get the inside scoop on all trade secrets.

A Teaching Resource
Tramontana provides you with scripts, weight loss and smoking cessation questionnaires to use with clients, resources and a very clear set of references- all directly relevant to the much misunderstood area of addictions. He describes the exact process he takes himself and his client through. He explains the stages within each stage. He illustrates how he takes the journey from first to last session. That in itself provides anyone who is training with an opportunity to confidentially, mentally rehearse what to explain to a prospective client. It's a real eye opener to many things you may already know.

Marketing and Developing your Business Practice.
The North American author introduces the reader to the business issues involved in developing your practices. Issues of cash flow are quite rightly, brought into view in his discussion around marketing. I was very pleased that he is very clear about how he promotes the usage of packages for his smoking and weight loss clients. He could have explained more, possibly even sharing examples of his small advertisements.
His approach to addressing addiction is flexible, permissive and non threatening and he encourages readers to develop his scripts and the scripts he points to in the resources to build the field of addiction.

Tramontana's writing style creates a sense of confidence, with his, -˜been there, seen it, done it' message. I was led by that attitude and as a result, dipped into the parts I was most interested in first, and only then did I continue with the other parts of the book. Finding to my pleasure that the rest of the text was equally chatty and really easy to read. 

Recommendation for Beginners Wanting To Strengthen Their Practice of Procedures:
I would recommend this text for beginners who are looking for overt procedures. Dealing with five key addictions, alcohol abuse and dependency, drug abuse and addiction, gambling computions, gambling obsessions and addiction, tobacco addiction(cigars, pipes and chew)food addiction and food compulsions. Tramontana is very open to the real issues presented by his addictive clients, recognising the addictions, yet moving beyond them, by focusing on what they value the most.

Recommendations for Beginners Wanting To Strengthen Their Practice of the Options Available
I would draw beginners who enjoy learning about alternatives, to the variety of scripts inductions and deepeners.
Experienced practitioners
Experienced practitoners know that Hypnotherapy is an exciting applied science. Yes, exciting. Just as seminal scientists, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Cosmologist Ra Un Nefer Amen, have revealed and presented pioneering science, which has become our tried and true viewpoint of the mind. These current day pioneers are no less exciting, creating and calming the waves of treatment for addictions. I would draw your attention to his tried and true approaches.

Experienced Practitioners Interested In Newness.
Tramontana provides a welcomed invitation to develop the Journal publications, in the area of addictions. He reminds readers from the outset that chemotherapists seems to be reluctant to “step on the feet” of those traditionally involved in the treatment of alcholo, drug and gambling addictions. However reminds the hypnotherapist of the much strength that they bring and to use that, as their focus as they develop indivualised programmes for patients who call or show up for help with alcohol, drug gambling diction or weight loss.

Contents of Hypnotically Enhanced Treatment for Addictions.
Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Gambling, Weight Control, And Smoking Cessation
The book has 7 chapters
Chapter 1; the lens, providing an overview
Chapter 2: clarifying the characteristics of alcohol abuse
Chapter 3 clarifying the characteristic of drug abuse
Chapter 4: clarifying the characteristics of gambling addiction and its interventions
Chapter 5: clarifying the interventions for smoking cessation
Chapter 6: clarifying the inventions for weight loss
Chapter 7: providing an overview
The appendix provides a superb example of questionnaires used for smoking and weight control. 

Recommendations;
I recommend it as a text for any module that focuses on marketing your practise and discussing how to make the most of your techniques after you have learnt the fundamentals around inductions, deepeners, suggestions and change work in trance.
I would recommend it as the primary text for any module focuses solely on addictions.