TREATING AD/HD WITH HYPNOSIS AND NEUROTHERAPY

Traditional diagnostic procedures for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) may lead to overdiagnosis and are fraught with complications because the target behavioral symptoms are found in a variety of other disorders. The many decades old traditional treatments consisting of powerful side effect laden psychostimulant drugs and/or complex costly behavioral modification programs are, at best, symptom focused and palliative in nature. Both diagnostic and treatment advances derived from the neurological basis of the disorder are needed as are habilitative treatment alternatives. This article presents the details of our Instant Alert Hypnosis procedure also known as Instantaneous Neuronal Activation Procedure (INAP) as an adjunct to neurotherapy in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. AD/HD diagnostic issues, demographics, traditional treatments, neurological basis, EEG assessment and implications for the use of hypnosis are discussed. Recent research demonstrating the efficacy and promise of neurotherapy with and without Instant Alert Hypnosis is discussed.