The Life Guide For Teens

“Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center offers an entirely new perspective on what hypnosis is and what it has the potential to be.

Dr. Ran Anbar is a champion for children’s healthcare. With the guidance provided by this eminently qualified physician, hypnosis therapy becomes a powerful tool for healing. Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis is an innovative and outstanding resource for parents and professionals involved in children’s healthcare.”

— Gary Elkins, PhD, ABPP, ABPH

Past-President, Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis; Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis; Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

“Dr. Anbar is a renowned leader in the field of mind-body medicine and medical hypnosis.

This book will help open people’s eyes to the power we each possess for self-regulation. Readers, especially parents, will appreciate learning how suggestions and mental imagery may be used to influence conditions as diverse as anxiety, pain, asthma, insomnia, low self-esteem, and bedwetting.”

— D. Corydon Hammond, PhD

Author of Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestion and Metaphors (WW Norton and Company, 1990); Professor Emeritus, University of Utah School of Medicine; Past President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

“Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis is a wonderful new addition to the literature on clinical hypnosis with children.

Dr. Anbar is a top expert in this field. His clinical experience in pediatric medicine and children’s mental health enables him to bring this valuable information and hypnotic approaches with children to other professionals in the field. Highly recommended!”

— William C. Wester II, EdD

Co-Author of Therapeutic Hypnosis with Children and Adolescents; Past President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

“Dr. Ran Anbar is a gifted teacher, compassionate healer, and consummate pediatric clinician.

In Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center, he has used his years of experience incorporating hypnosis in the care of his patients to tell their stories. This compelling book will help parents and the clinicians who work with children to discover the healing power of hypnosis. This is a masterful addition to the pediatric health care literature and a must read for anyone who cares for and about children.”

— Linda Thomson, PhD, APRN, ABMH, ABHN

Author, Harry Hypno-potamus, Metaphorical Tales for Children, Volumes I and II; Creator, Harry Hypno-potamus Imagination Cards and Stress Free Surgery; Past-President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; Moderator, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Board of Governors

“Over the past 20 years Dr. Anbar has embarked on an intense study of hypnosis through countless workshops, persistent inquiries, writing, and careful listening to colleagues, mentors, and most of all his young patients.

Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center, with its stories that variably astound, challenge, inspire, is an important and courageous undertaking. Through his clear commitment to the power of the human mind to create change, Dr. Anbar teaches young people and their families to believe that positive change is both possible and do-able.”

— Daniel P. Kohen, MD, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Kohen Therapy Associates, Minnetonka, Minnesota; Co-Author of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children; Director, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Program; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota (retired); Co-Founder/Co-Director, National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute

“From the first words of Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center I was on the edge of my seat about Paul, a severely allergic teen.

Paul and thousands of others have transformed their lives using self-hypnosis for healing and empowerment under Dr. Anbar’s caring and innovative care. I have admired Dr. Anbar’s professional research with hypnosis for years, and now in Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis he is sharing his brilliant gifts with parents as well as all of us who work with children and teens. Dr. Ran Anbar is a champion for children’s healthcare!”

— Charlotte Reznick, PhD

Author of The Power of Your Child’s Imagination

“In Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center, Dr. Ran Anbar has taken the medical/clinical topic of hypnosis that has long been looked upon with confusion and skepticism, and woven it into relatable, readable, gripping, heart-warming—and occasionally heart-wrenching—stories that shine light on this underutilized field of medicine.

Dr. Anbar was my first Professor of Clinical Hypnosis fifteen years ago, transforming my pediatric pulmonology and sleep medicine practice (and my life) completely through his extensive expertise and indefatigable mentorship. Learning from Dr. Anbar has always been awe-inspiring. Readers of Journey to The Center will soon know why.”

— Lewis J. Kass, MD, FAAP

Director of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, Norwalk Hospital; Westchester Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep Medicine; Westchester Center for Clinical Hypnosis

“Dr. Anbar’s commitment to helping his pediatric patients is evident throughout his new book, Changing Children’s Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center.

You don’t need to be a doctor to appreciate his winning ways; he explains his methods in an easy-to-understand format and the reader gets to observe the entire, fascinating process. Please read this book if you know a child who is suffering—you may be able to steer the family toward relief.”

— Roberta Temes, PhD

Author, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hypnosis; Faculty (ret.) Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn, NY

“I was always a cynic when ‘hypnosis’ was suggested as a medical alternative. But then, thirty years ago, I became the father of a profoundly physically challenged young boy—a quadriplegic child, dependent on a ventilator.

He was ‘locked in’ by his condition, and nothing was available to open the window to his heart and soul. Then along came Dr. Ran Anbar, a highly respected pediatric pulmonologist, who told me, ‘I think I can help!’ There were no hollow pronouncements, just, ‘I think, through good medicine and the introduction of hypnosis, we can improve the quality of your son’s life.’ And he did.

This book is not an esoteric medical manuscript, but a book about life and for life. Dr. Anbar and his story exemplify wisdom, determination, passion, creativity, and willingness to ‘go the extra mile’ for the children in his care.”

— Rabbi Charles S. Sherman

MBIEE-Melrose B’nai Israel Emanu-El; Author of The Broken and the Whole

“Dr. Anbar is an outstanding champion for children’s healthcare.

His willingness to think outside the box on how best to serve his patients has helped thousands of children live healthier, happier lives. His introduction to the process and benefits of hypnosis therapy deserves serious attention from parents and medical practitioners everywhere.”

— Ernest Mort

Staff emeritus and retired Dean of Students, Revelle College, UC San Diego