There are many effective treatments for insomnia, but the key to finding the right one for any individual can depend very much on the cause of that insomnia. This book aims to make the choice of treatment easier by helping readers first to determine the cause of their sleep disturbances, and then to find an appropriate treatment. As well as the several different forms of insomnia, it covers other sleep disturbances including snoring, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy and circadian rhythm (body-clock) disorders. It describes a wide range of self-help methods and examines and...

Used by doctors, dentists and psychotherapists, hypnosis is a valuable tool in the treatment of problems including insomnia, anxiety, asthma, migraine, psoriasis, eczema, phobias and chronic pain. In this comprehensive book, medical hypnotherapist Dr. Ruth Lever Kidson answers many frequently asked questions about the therapy. She looks at all aspects of hypnosis, with chapters on its history, on stage hypnosis, and on age regression and 'past life' regression, and she relates a number of case histories from her own practice, showing how hypnosis can be valuable for conditions that have not...