Though the society has now fixed its 2005 calendar, it is still

actively looking for speakers to address the club for the

coming year. Therefore this is an invitation to anyone

prepared to present a talk on a subject of interest to

hypnotherapists ­ which is a pretty wide field.

If you feel you would like to deliver such a talk, please

contact Bill Doult, the society's secretary by emailing:

secretary@jamesbraidsociety.com or phoning:

020-7222 6800.

The James Braid Society meets near Regents Park at the

Park Crescent Conference Centre, International Students'

House, located at 229 Great Portland Street, LONDON

W1W 5PN - immediately in front of Great Portland Street

tube station.

­ Recommended reading in Medical Schools

The former Vice-Principal of the London College of Clinical

Hypnosis, Ursula James, has been busy since leaving the

College. As a result of her on-going work with medical

schools, she has been commissioned by Oxford University

Radcliffe Press to write a textbook for medical students. She

has also recently been made Visiting Teaching Fellow at the

Oxford University Medical School.

The Hypnotherapy Awareness week has taken place for the

second year running. The London College of Clinical

`The Clinical Hypnosis Textbook' is now complete and will be

Hypnosis along with the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis

out in July 2005 and includes a companion CD. This volume

teamed together in a bid to raise awareness about the

is now required reading at six UK medical schools, as well

benefits of hypnosis when applied therapeutically in a clinical

as recommended reading for the London College of Clinical

Hypnotherapy Awareness Week was advertised on the NHS

To co-incide with the publication of this volume, Ursula

calendar this year and as a result we had a great response

James will be presenting one-day workshops in London and

from NHS departments and other health clinics.

Glasgow entitled `Diagnostic Protocols ­ the use of hypnosis

in the medical setting'. The workshop fee will include a copy

If you would like to organise a talk to promote the awareness

of `The Clinical Hypnosis Textbook'. This course is approved

of hypnotherapy next year please contact Tom Connelly at

for 1 Masterclass credit.

the BSCH. He will post your advert on the BSCH website

and the Hypnotherapy Awareness Week website as a free

The workshop will focus on the skill of how to select the

service to all members.

most appropriate hypnosis techniques. It will be useful to

students as well as fully qualified practitioners and sets out

To find out more or to express your comments please email:

to demonstrate how the techniques in the `Clinical Hypnosis

pr@lcch.co.uk

Textbook' can be most effectively applied when working with

real-life patient scenarios.

Readers of the LCCH News can order a copy of `The

Clinical Hypnosis Textbook' (Publishers Oxford University

The James Braid Society is a discussion group and social

Radcliffe Press, r.r.p. £24.95) in advance of publication by:

club for hypnotherapists which meets once a month in

telephoning 020 7262 1659 or going to

Central London. A non-profit making organisation, it seeks to

promote goodwill and friendship between hypnotherapists

working in London and the Home Counties ... and

Also, if you wish to

everywhere else. With an "open door" policy it welcomes

subscribe free of charge to

therapists visiting London from elsewhere in the UK or from

the UK medical school

hypnosis research and

development ezine

The dates for 2005 are given below or can be found on the

(MEDHYP) or obtain further

club's website - www.jamesbraidsociety.com

details of the `Diagnostic

Protocols' workshop, go

online to the Thames

27 January; 24 February; 24 March; 21 April; 19 May; 23

June; 21 July; No meeting in August; 22 September; 20

Medical Lectures website, or

October; 24 November; December ­ social event on date

telephone the number in this

to be decided.

article.