Joseph P. Green, Ph.D.

Professor, Psychology

Speaker's Bureau Presentations

  • Hypnosis/Mind Body Connections
  • Smoking Cessation (or Other Attempts at Habit Control)
  • General Topics in Clinical Psychology
  • Memory (Hypnotically Enhanced, General Types of Memory, Problems, Mnemonics)

Biography

Joseph P. Green is a Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University and currently serves as the psychology program coordinator at a regional campus of OSU in Lima, OH. He has published over 70 journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, and produced two volumes on applied clinical hypnosis. The majority of his publications have centered around the topics of hypnosis, imagination, and suggestion-based approaches to psychotherapy. Dr. Green has been elected president of Division 30 of the American Psychological Association (Society for Psychological Hypnosis) three times. He is a Fellow of APA Division 30 and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and is a member of honor of the Association for the Advance of Experimental and Applied Hypnosis (AAEAH; Spain). He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Dr. Green received The Ohio State University's highest honor for distinguished teaching (2004). During his tenure at OSU Lima, Dr. Green received campus awards for Outstanding Scholarship, Outstanding Teaching, and Sustained Faculty Mentorship. His research, leadership, mentoring of students, and professional dedication to his field has earned a number of awards and recognition within professional societies and organizations.

Dr. Green has an active lab where he supervises undergraduate students learning to conduct research. He teaches a number of courses on the Lima campus, including: Introductory Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Personality Psychology, Counseling Psychology, and the Psychology of Gender.

Selective Publications

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2019). Cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and hypnosis for smoking cessation: a scientifically informed intervention. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

Lynn, S.J., Green, J.P., Polizzi, C.P., Ellenberg, S., Guatam, A., & Aksen, D. (2019). Hypnosis, hypnotic phenomena, and hypnotic responsiveness: clinical and research foundations – a 40 year perspective. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 67(4), 475-511.

Lynn, S.J., Maxwell, R., & Green, J.P. (2017). The hypnotic induction in the broader scheme of hypnosis: A sociocognitive perspective. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 59, 363-384.

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2017). A multifaceted hypnosis smoking cessation program: Enhancing motivation and goal attainment. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 65, 308-335.

Green, J.P., Smith, R.J., Kromer, M.A. (2015). Diurnal Variations in Hypnotic Responsiveness: Is There an Optimal Time to be Hypnotized? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 63, 171-181.

Green, J.P., Laurence, Jean-Roch, & Lynn, S.J. (2014). Hypnosis and psychotherapy: From Mesmer to mindfulness. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 1(2), 199-212.

Green, J.P., & Mohler, E.W. (2014). The death effect in literary evaluation: Reverence for the dead? Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 68(3), 229-239.

Green, J.P. (2012). The Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Hypnosis (Client) version and hypnotizability. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 60, 229-240.

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2011). Hypnotic responsiveness: expectancy, attitudes, fantasy proneness, absorption, and gender. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 59, 103-121.

Green, J.P., Lynn, S.J., & Montgomery, G.H. (2008). Gender-Related Differences in Hypnosis-Based Treatments for Smoking: A Follow-up Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 50, 259-271.

Green, J.P., Lynn, S.J., & Montgomery, G.H. (2006). A meta-analysis of gender, smoking cessation, and hypnosis: A brief communication. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54, 224-233.

Green, J.P., Page, R.A., Rasekhy, R., Johnson, L.K., & Bernhardt, S.E. (2006). Cultural views and attitudes about hypnosis: A survey of college students across four countries. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54, 263-280.

Hornyak, L.M., & Green, J.P. (Eds.) (2000). Healing from within: The use of hypnosis in women’s health care. Washington DC: American Psychological Association.

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2000). Hypnosis and suggestion-based approaches to smoking cessation: An examination of the evidence. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48, 195-224.

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