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Analgesia And Anesthesia
Published in Vincenzo Berghella, Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines, 2022
Michele Mele, Valentina Bellussi, Laura Felder
Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis to deeply relax the body through focused concentration. For childbirth, hypnosis is often used to focus attention on feelings of comfort or numbness, as well as to enhance women’s feelings of relaxation and sense of safety. In a review of nine studies (2954 women) there was no significant difference between women receiving hypnosis versus controls in terms of women’s satisfaction with method of pain relief or women’s sense of coping with labor. However, fewer women in the hypnosis group used pharmacologic pain relief [12].
Hypnosis
Published in Eli Ilana, Oral Psychophysiology, 2020
It is impossible to cover the many aspects of the nature of hypnosis, techniques of induction, and the utilization of hypnotic phenomena in hypnotherapy, medicine, and dentistry in this chapter. The field is rapidly growing and developing. Between 1982 and 1985 alone, more than 1000 articles were published in the scientific literature concerning hypnosis.5 This indicates an enduring willingness on the part of the scientific community to accept hypnosis as a legitimate topic for clinical and research investigation. The present chapter summarizes the common phenomena of hypnosis and possible clinical applications in dentistry.
Hypnosis approaches to gastrointestinal conditions
Published in Simon R. Knowles, Laurie Keefer, Antonina A. Mikocka-Walus, Psychogastroenterology for Adults, 2019
Hypnotherapy, also referred to as “hypnosis”, is a trance-like state in which an individual is guided by a trained therapist into a heightened state of focus and concentration. The clinician will utilise verbal repetition and mental images to facilitate a calm and relaxed physical and emotional state, creating openness to suggestions. There is a strong rationale for the practical application and success of hypnosis in GI conditions because of the important role of the brain-gut axis (BGA). The BGA is understood as the communication pathway which allows for continuous monitoring of GI activity as well as the processing and interpretation of that activity (see Chapter 5 for more details relating to the BGA and stress) [1]. Hypnosis is relevant to patients with GI conditions in that it: (1) is an evidence-based brain-gut psychotherapy which can specifically target the down-regulation of unpleasant GI sensations, which are difficult to treat with traditional medical therapy, (2) provides patients with a skills-based intervention which is durable in the long-term, and (3) can be successfully tailored to a variety of GI symptoms when implemented by a trained mental health professional [2].
Systematic Review of Hypnotherapy for Sleep and Sleep Disturbance
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2023
Nathan Wofford, Morgan Snyder, Chris E. Corlett, Gary R. Elkins
Hypnotherapy may be an effective intervention for sleep disturbance with fewer side effects and can provide patients with an alternative to CBT-I and pharmacotherapy (Abramowitz et al., 2008; Farrell-Carnahan et al., 2010). Hypnotherapy is defined as “the use of hypnosis in the treatment of a medical or psychological disorder or concern” (Elkins et al., 2015, p. 383). Hypnotherapy has also been shown to be beneficial for a wide range of conditions and symptoms that may themselves influence sleep, including anxiety, hot flashes, pain, and stress, and this may offer hypnosis an additional indirect pathway to improve sleep (Adachi et al., 2013; Cramer et al., 2015; Elkins, 2022; Häuser et al., 2016; Thompson et al., 2019). Hypnotherapy may target sleep disturbance, directly or indirectly, by intervening on conditions that may themselves negatively impact sleep.
Current Practices, Experiences, and Views in Clinical Hypnosis: Findings of an International Survey
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2023
Olafur S. Palsson, Zoltan Kekecs, Giuseppe De Benedittis, Donald Moss, Gary R. Elkins, Devin B. Terhune, Katalin Varga, Philip D. Shenefelt, Peter J. Whorwell
Clinical hypnosis has been widely practiced for more than a century, and thousands of therapists currently offer hypnotherapy services in countries around the world to treat a broad spectrum of ailments and presenting problems. Despite this extensive use, very little has been documented in the empirical literature about the general nature of these practices or the collective clinical experience of the hypnosis practitioners. Published clinical hypnosis research has mostly concerned itself with interventions that are separate from real-world clinical practice, often conducted in highly specialized clinics or academic environments. These research interventions are likely to be carried out by therapists who have different backgrounds, training, and therapeutic styles than those in the general clinical hypnosis community, and the clients treated in such studies are not necessarily representative of the typical hypnotherapy client. Although more direct observations from routine clinical hypnotherapy sometimes do enter the hypnosis literature, they tend to range from single case reports to case series, neither of which are suited to give a broad picture of common patterns of practice in clinical hypnosis.
Hypnotherapy for persons with Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A three-arm randomized controlled trial
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2022
Due to limited resources, the follow-up period in this study was relatively short, at 3 months. Numerous reviews on traditional hypnotherapy had previously confirmed its ability to provide both short-term and long-term beneficial effects (Ford et al., 2014; Palsson, 2013; Webb et al., 2009). However, it remains unclear whether such positive beneficial effects, especially for symptoms-related social hypervigilance, can persist after, say, 6, 9, or 12 months. Symptoms-related social hypervigilance was a psychological construct originally conceptualized with reference to a local clinical experience of Hong Kong Chinese clients. The current study has only provided preliminary evidence supporting its existence among the local IBS clientele and its relevance to clinical practice, meaning that both the persistence and usefulness of the construct of symptoms-related social hypervigilance among local IBS patients need to be further investigated in broader contexts.