Hypnosis increasingly used as a therapeutic tool

Written by Sandeep Nehra

“I do not believe,” “I want to keep control,” “it does not work for me”: hypnosis, which takes between waking and sleeping, is still a little scared, but it is now increasingly used as a therapeutic tool.

In France, the dominant form is Ericksonian hypnosis, named after the American psychiatrist Milton Erickson, who is flexible, non-directive, and is defined as “a natural state of consciousness” that respects the patient and adapts to it.

Traditionally hypnosis is for people with psychological difficulties or emotional (depression, sleep disorders, phobias, addictions), “said Dr Claude Virot, who runs the training center Emergences at Rennes.

But it also serves those who suffer from chronic or acute pain, helping them to “change the experience of pain,” as Ignatius says psychologist Isabelle. Branch acute pain has grown significantly recently, according to Claude Virot.

It is therefore increasingly used by dentists in the operating room in addition to local anesthetics, such as in maternity hospital Robert Debre, or even emergency services.

Franck Garden-breccia, emergency physician for 15 years, was trained in hypnosis to “limit the intake of opioids or sedative drugs” or controlling stress.

He cites the example of an injured person, imprisoned in his car. “We introduce a hypnotic trance to manage pain during the technical movement,” he said. It then accompanies the individual during the time of extrication. “In the hypnotic trance there is a distortion of time: the person will live two-hour event as if it only lasted half an hour.”

After this acute phase, hypnosis can be used to prevent the onset of posttraumatic stress disorder or to treat it, “like psychotherapy.

In hypnosis, the choice of words is essential. Do not say before a shot “it’s not going to hurt,” which brings to mind the pain, but “talk about something else,” said Franck Garden-breccia. “It creates confusion during this time the needle enters and, as the patient was focused on the word quirky, he felt nothing.”

For stronger pain, it distracts the patient by taking “a place where he feels completely safe, known as a safe place.” It induces “an altered state of consciousness between waking and sleeping state, where the spirit wins,” said the emergency room.

Darina and the Caribbean, Mom recently said that the midwife trained in hypnosis who accompanied him during childbirth was “sent off on something that (she) loved” in the case “the beach, at home.” “I was happy,” she said. “Hypnosis is the muscle of the imagination,” said Isabelle Ignatius nicely.

According to Claude Virot, hypnosis is growing especially in the field of in vitro fertilization, which would increase the success rate.

But she is still afraid: Trance is equated with that of voodoo, they think they will be under the influence of the hypnotist, which will be handled.

Instead, he is helping to “regain control over oneself, to find freedom,” said Isabelle Ignatius. Hypnosis is basically self-hypnosis, since stress of hypno-therapists, “the person turns herself in this state, without being forced to anything.”

The forum’s theme of the French Confederation of hypnosis in June, is: “Dare a therapeutic mix, dare to enter hypnosis in your daily practice.”

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