Phantom limb pain occurs in more than half of the people who have undergone an amputation. Hypnosis can alleviate effectively experimental, procedural, and chronic pain. Thus, this multiple-case study, we determined whether hypnosis might be a successful complementary approach to help patients with phantom alleviating their quality (i.e., sensitive affective), intensity, fatigue, emotional dist...

background and aims: nowadays, hypnosis has opened its position in the medical community. based on controlled trials, hypnosis has been superior compared to other interventional procedures to reduce acute pain. this investigation aims to determine the effectiveness of hypnosis in the treatment of pain and enhancing mental performance in iran, using the meta-analysis method. methods: the search ...

As part of a wider argument that history is essential to psychological understanding because of the reflexive nature of psychological knowledge, this article examines the case of mesmerism in early Victorian Britain as an example of how psychological knowledge is both constructive and constructed. It is argued that the shift from "mesmerism" to "hypnotism" was a change in understanding that cre...

Hypnotism was first used in the treatment of repressed memories by Freud and Breuer. They, however,, abandoned it in favour of the much more lengthy and complicated process of psycho-analysis, because the results were " capricious and not permanent." There is, however, very clear evidence that many cases can be so treated and cured ; and the process is so simple that it seems a pity such a valu...

Suggestion.?By L. Tuckky. Demy 8voPages xiv and 413. Price 21 jnet. London, 1921: Bail,ue;re, Tindaij, and Cox. This book has reached the Seventh Edition and so has obviously been very popular. .The reason for its popularity will be apparent to all who read the volume. It contains numerous accounts of interesting cases in which treatment by suggestion has been of service. These are given ' with...

UNLABELLED Hypnosis is a nonpharmacologic means for managing adverse surgical side effects. Typically, reviews of the hypnosis literature have been narrative in nature, focused on specific outcome domains (e.g., patients' self-reported pain), and rarely address the impact of different modes of the hypnosis administration. Therefore, it is important to take a quantitative approach to assessing t...

This study takes a context-specific approach to examine people's willingness to try hypnosis under various conditions and the factors that contribute to their willingness. It examined 378 participants, who completed a web-based hypnosis survey. The results showed that people's willingness to try hypnosis varies by context. Specifically, people are more willing to try hypnosis when it is framed ...

The aim of this report is to demonstrate the success of a teamwork approach for providing instruction in self-hypnosis at a Pediatric Pulmonary Center. In order to add to the hypnosis service provided by a pulmonologist at the Center, the Center social worker learned how to use clinical hypnosis. During a 3-year period, she instructed 72 patients (average age 11.6 years) in self-hypnosis. Eight...