Associate Professor of Psychology (Retired) 

TPTC (Coburg) 

BA (ANU) 

Grad. Dip Ed Counselling (RMIT) 

BEd (La Trobe) 

MEd (La Trobe) 

Ph. D (Simon Fraser, Canada) 

Dip Clinical Hypnosis (ASH) 

Formerly an Associate Professor at Bond University, Dr Barling is now a Private
Practitioner based in Queensland. 

Originally trained as a primary teacher, Norm Barling studied and later taught psychology
at Melbourne Teachers College and the University of Ballarat. 

Upon joining Bond University he continued his research, teaching and clinical interests,
principally clinical and health psychology. He is also a hypnotherapist and a member of
the Australian and International Societies of Hypnosis.

Articles

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Effect of Belief in “Psychic Healing” on Self-Reported Pain in Chronic Pain Sufferers (with Michael Lyvers and Jill Harding-Clark), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
Objective. The “psychic healing” ability of a well-known Australian psychic was subjected to a televised...
 

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Some effects of hypnosis on negative affect and immune system response (with Susan J. Raine), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
Research by Kiecolt-Glaser, McGuire, Robles, and Glaser (2002) concluded that immune systems can be influenced...
 

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Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about clinical hypnosis (with Danielle A. G. De Lucchi), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2004)
This study investigated knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and motivation regarding clinical hypnosis. A comparison was made...
 

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Young men's awareness, attitudes and practice of testicular self-examination: a health action process approach (with M. Lehmann), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1999)
One-hundred-and-one Australian university students aged 18-25 years, with a mean age of 22. 9 years...
 

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Experiential analogies and hypnotherapy, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (1998)
This paper discusses the therapeutic use of experiential analogies with clients in a hypnotic trance....