Women undergoing surgery for breast cancer who received a brief hypnosis session before entering the operating room required less anesthesia and pain medication during surgery, and reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort after surgery than women who did not receive hypnosis. The overall cost of surgery was also significantly less for women undergoing hypnosis. Read More…
Bain’s body has never been found, but in a 1998 trial Baltovich was convicted, largely on the strength of hypnosis-aided witnesses and a judge’s charge that was found to be unfair on appeal. Read More…
Alex Lenkei is not the first patient to reject an anaesthetic in favour of hypnosis before undergoing surgery – but he may be the first to have hypnotised himself.
At Worthing Hospital, Sussex, the 61-year-old registered hypnotist sedated himself with techniques he has used since the age of 16.
Be sure to check out Christina’s blog about her experience here.
It’s been dismissed as a bag of tricks. Nothing more than mere entertainment, but many people seek it as a cure for a lot of different things: Chronic pain, addictions, bad habits…some athletes even use it to get out of slumps.
Fox 21’s Christina Salvo underwent several weeks of hypnosis to see if it could cure her of her phobia of snakes.
Q: Dr. Neuger “So what are your goals for today or for our time together Christina? What do you hope to accomplish?
A: Ideally, to be free of this phobia. To be in the same room as a snake. To be able to look at a snake without getting a panic attack.
The shiny pocket watch swings back and forth.
“You’re getting sleepy,” the hypnotist whispers. “Sleeeeeepy.”
Forget all that. Real therapy-based hypnosis is nothing like the TV version. In fact, chances are, almost all of us have been very close to our own hypnotic state, without ever seeing a hypnotist.
Have you ever been driving, only to realize that you don’t have any recollection of the last 20 miles? Yet you were awake and alert enough to change lanes and stop at intersections.
That’s very much like hypnosis — you’re awake, yet in an altered state of consciousness.
ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2008) — Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the study said their insights into the memory suppression and recall process may yield insight into the mechanisms underlying amnesia. Read This Article
STANFORD, Calif. — It was no way for an 11-year-old to live. For a month the boy had endured daily episodes of uncontrollable jerking and foaming at the mouth, and his physicians at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford were concerned that the boy had epilepsy. Before starting the boy on a lifetime of anti-seizure medications, though, they turned to an unconventional diagnostic tool: hypnosis. “Children are highly suggestible and they have great imaginations,” said Packard Children’s child psychiatrist Richard Shaw, MD. “We’ve found that if we suggest that they are going to have one of their events while they are in a hypnotic trance, they will usually have one.” Read This Article
FRIDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) — When drugs and dietary changes don’t provide relief from the pain, bloating and other unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, patients may want to try a different approach. Recent studies show that using one’s own thoughts in a process called cognitive behavioral therapy may help ease symptoms. Likewise, using hypnosis to visualize the pain and imagine it seeping away can be a powerful treatment strategy, too. Read This Article