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Article: The value of medical hypnosis.
- Article from:
- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
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It's been 30 years since I first began using hypnosis. For me, it's been a great therapeutic tool. As an adjunctive technique, hypnosis has allowed me to integrate several behavioral therapies that often formed the basis of my treatment strategy.
My early education in its use taught me that hypnosis is a method of sustained, focused concentration. Hypnosis allows the subject to process information in a manner different from the way it is processed in the alert state. Because of the power of hypnosis, when used with a behavior modification strategy, it can be used in various ways to treat many disorders.
Hypnosis allows patients to focus and sustain ...