In movies, hypnosis is often used to manupulate people into doing illegal or foolish things they wouldn't normally do. You may have also seen hypnosis used as an entertaining trick at a party or comedy show. But in a medical context, hypnosis can be a useful, helpful way to overcome obstacles to good health.
The use of hypnosis for medical reasons is referred to as hypnotherapy. The goal of hypnotherapy is to bring about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness known as a trance. When in this deeply focused state, people are usually responsive to an idea or image, and they can learn to affcet their bodily functions and psychosocial responses.
Hypnotherapy was endorsed by the American Medical Association in 1958, and today it is commonly used to help treat chronic pain, anxiety, and addiction and to assist in weight loss. It has even been shown to lower blood pressure and heart rate. Hypnosis can also be performed before an operation or before childbirth or to reduce the need for medication during certain types of recovery. Studies on children in emergency treatment centers show that hypnotherapy reduces fear, stress, and discomfort and improves cooperation with medical personnel.
To put a patient under hypnosis, she is led through a series of steps to make her feel relaxed. The patient should feel physically at ease but mentally very awake. At this point, patients are very responsive to the hypnotherapist's suggestions―that they don't like the taste of cigarettes, for example, or that they can turn down the "volume" of their pain the way they can a radio. The brain stores these physical and emotional feelings as long-term memories, and when a cigarette i presented at a later time, that memory comes flooding back into the person's consciousness. It may take as many as 10 sessions before people begin to respond to hypnosis. Self-hypnosis, often with the help of an audiotape or compact disc, can help patients re-create at home the feelings they experience during a hypnotherapy session.
Hypnos means "sleep" in Greek. The term hypnosis was coined in the 19th century.
In the 1700s, a German physician named Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) claimed that hypnosis through magnets and other techniques could cure blindness, joint pain, and paralysis. Though Mesmer was dismissed as a fraud by the medical community, the word mesmerize lives on.
Very rarely, hypnotherapy leads to the development of false memories fabricated by the unconscious mind, called confabulations.
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