Joseph P. Green, Ph.D.

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 Green is a Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University. He has published over 100 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and newsletter articles.  His work is primarily in the area of hypnosis, imagination, and suggestion-based approaches to psychotherapy.  He has authored or edited two volumes on applying clinical hypnosis for health care and tobacco addiction.  Dr. Green served three terms as president of the American Psychological Association, Division 30 (APA D30; Society of Psychological Hypnosis).  He is a Fellow of APA, the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH), and a member of honor of the Association for the Advance of Hypnosis Experimental and Applied (AAHEA; Spain).  His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including: Early Career, Distinguished Contributions to Scientific Hypnosis, and Distinguished Contributions to Professional Hypnosis (APA D30); Clark Hull Award for Scientific Excellence in Writing on Experimental Hypnosis (American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis); Auther Shapiro Best Book Award (SCEH); Distinguished Teaching Award (Ohio State University Alumni Association).

Dr. Green joined the faculty at Ohio State Lima in 1993, and teaches a variety of undergraduate courses.  He has earned several awards for teaching, scholarship, mentoring, and community service.

Selective Publications

Montgomery, G.H., Green, J.P., Apelian, C., Zahedi, A., Polizzi, C.P., Terhune, D.B., & Lynn, S.J. (2025).  Hypnosis at the crossroads: A primer of the past and visions for the future.  International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 73(3), 342-380. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2025.2508407

Green, J.P. (2024). A tribute to the life and work of Steven Jay Lynn (1946-2024): In Memoriam.  International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 72(3), 219-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2024.2355831

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2023).  Hypnosis for the treatment of smoking.  In L.S. Milling (Ed.), Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Hypnosis (pp. 163-192).  American Psychological Association.  https://doi.org/10.1037/0000347-007

Lynn, S.J., Green, J.P., Zahedi, A., & Apelian, C. (2023).  The response set theory of hypnosis reconsidered: toward an integrative model. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 65(3), 186-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2022.2117680

Green, J.P., & Lynn, S.J. (2019).  Cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and hypnosis for smoking cessation: a scientifically informed intervention.  Wiley Blackwell.  doi.org/10.1002/9781119139676 

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(3), 308-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2017.1314740 

Green, J.P., Holtzapple, A.M., & McKinley, L. (2016).  Examining Gender Equity in Newspaper Coverage of West-Central Ohio High School Basketball Games.  Ohio Journal of Science, 116(2), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.18061/ojs.v116i2.5136 

Green, J.P., Laurence, J.-R., & Lynn, S.J. (2014).  Hypnosis and psychotherapy: From Mesmer to mindfulness.  Psychology of Consciousness:  Theory, Research, and Practice, 1(2), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000015 

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(2), 229-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2012.648073