British Association of Medical Hypnosis (BAMH) Smoking Cessation Research Project Data on smokers is required for a nationwide study into hypnotherapy as an intervention for smoking cessation. The aim is to get funding for a future study to raise the profile of hypnotherapy and to legitimise this methodology as a smoking cessation intervention within the NHS. As large amounts of money are currently being poured into Primary Care Groups to set up smoking cessation clinics, now is as good a time as any to convince the government to get hypnotherapy included as a potential treatment in their programme. The only way this may happen will be through research, so, if you have treated smokers with the LCCH one-session stop smoking script, and are prepared to take part in this study, please furnish the following data: 1. Your name and contact details 2. Your BSCH membership number 3. Patients’ names & addresses (with patients’ consent) Please list the patients’ names and addresses, preferably in alphabetical order. Preferred mode: by e-mail, at petersfield@compuserve.com. If not possible, please put on disc, or failing that, a hard copy and mail it to: Dr Mark Feldman Petersfield Surgery 70 Petersfield Avenue Romford, RM3 9PD All data will be confidential and your patients will be identified only by number. They will be asked to complete a one-page form which will be sent to them from Petersfield Surgery. Once this project is up and running, funding will be applied for future studies and research projects as part of the British Association of Medical Hypnosis’ Research Section. All data should reach Dr Feldman by 16th November 2000 at the latest. For further info please contact Ursula James on 020-7706 3360 or e-mail ujames1@aol.com				The return of the European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis (EJCH) Following the conclusion of the litigation against the EJCH by the entertainer and stage hypnotist Paul McKenna, the EJCH is once again ready to resume publication. (See page 3). As a direct result of its long absence, the Journal is actively seeking clinical articles, reviews, and information, including useful web addresses and dates for the diary for inclusion in the next edition. If you are a past contributor, or have a case history or technique which you feel would be of interest to the profession, please contact the Journal on: 020-7706 7775 or take a look on www.ejch.com/guideline.htm for details of how to submit, and in which format. In addition the Journal is seeking a media watcher to co-ordinate information from newspapers, TV and the web. If you are interested, please contact Ursula James with a curriculum vitae. The EJCH aims to bring out a special issue before the end of the year. Thereafter, the Journal’s Editorial control will pass to the British Association of Medical Hypnosis (BAMH) whose official Journal it will become. The BAHM’s Executive Committee will be solely responsible for the appointment of its Editor, Associate Editor and Editorial Advisory Board. We are sure that the profession will continue to support the EJCH as they have done in the past and we look forward to it’s phoenix-like rise from the damage arising out of the stage hypnotist’s libel action. International The 10th Congress of the Association of European Psychiatrists is scheduled to take place in Prague between 28th October and 1st November 2000. Professor V.M. Mathew, President of the British Medical Hypnotherapy Examinations Board, and Michael Joseph, Principal of the LCCH have been invited to present a programme at this meeting entitled:- An Introductory Workshop to Clinical Hypnosis. The LCCH is delighted to take this opportunity to introduce clinical hypnosis to a worldwide medical audience still largely sceptical of this valuable methodology. We shall of course report proceedings in our next issue.
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