Background: The anxiety felt by patients undergoing hemodialysis can decrease the quality of life, cause a sleep disorder, and even aggravate disease. Acupressure, hypnotherapy, or hypnopressure have minimal side effects are easy to do in reducing anxiety. study aims analyze different acupressure, programs. Subjects Method: It was an experimental using randomized controlled trial. conducted at ...

THEORETICAL OVERVIEW Simply speaking, hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness. Hypnotherapy, therefore, is the use of an altered state of consciousness, or trance, to reach a therapeutic goal or purpose. During the trance state there is a heightened concentration for the specific purpose of maximizing potential or changing understanding and experience. Relaxation and imagery is used to ob...

BACKGROUND Approximately two thirds of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) respond well to hypnotherapy. However, it is time consuming as well as expensive to provide and therefore a way of predicting outcome would be extremely useful. The use of imagery and color form an integral part of the hypnotherapeutic process and we have hypothesised that investigating color and how it relates ...

Background & Objective:  Social anxiety disorder, which involves excessive anxiety of social situation due to fear of negative evaluation, is a debilitating disorder that leads to social dysfunction. The purpose of this study is to investigate Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT) versus Group Hypnotherapy (GHT) on Brain/Behavioral Systems of Social Phobia Patients.  Materials ...