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Article: Hypnosis: a call for training.(THE PSYCHIATRIST'S TOOLBOX)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Television programs and newspapers promote regularly the use of multiple alternative treatments in medicine, surgery, and dentistry. Amid all the promotions for alternative and complementary medical techniques, one word has been conspicuously absent: hypnosis.
Yet, compared to other ancillary treatments, hypnosis is more sophisticated, better studied, and more codified.
More than 30 years ago, I began using hypnotic/relaxation techniques, coupled with a behavior modification strategy, for smoking cessation and weight control. These techniques were later expanded to numerous psychiatric disorders.
I also used these techniques with patients ...