TY  - JOUR
T1  - AMerican society of clinical hypnosis
AU  - Erickson MH
Y1  - 1959/02/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03000240084019
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 746
EP  - 746
VL  - 169
IS  - 7
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the national society for the advancement of scientific hypnosis with more than 30 state and regional component sections and its membership restricted to physicians, dentists, and psychologists having a doctoral degree, neither sponsors nor approves any boards of certification in hypnosis organized by private individuals, such as that mentioned in Medical News in the Jan. 3, 1959, issue of The Journal, page 54. Nor does the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis consider at this time such proposed certification as either warranted or even legitimate, since hypnosis is a methodology and not a specialty. Also, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis is in full accord with, and wishes to abide completely by the regulations established by, the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and with the comparable recommendation of the Reference Committee on Dental Education of the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03000240084019
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000240084019
ER  -