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Article: Hypnotism under the knife; hypnotism has been called 'a believed-in fantasy,' and believers are using it as an anesthetic in surgery. It is, literally, all in the mind. (includes related article on use in case where conventional anesthesia was impossible)
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- Science News
- Article date:
- March 22, 1986
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Hypnotism Under the Knife
The young woman lies on an operating room table, alert and listening intently to Frank Marlowe, a Philadelphia plastic surgeon and otolaryngologist. Several weeks before the surgery, Marlowe had a 20-minute hypnosis session with the patient. He put her in a trance and gave her a posthypnotic suggestion -- that when he said "deep deep relax," she would completely relax and spread her fingers as a signal that the surgery could begin.
Now he softly tells the patient what will be going on during the operation and says the passwords. The patient, a nurse, has wanted a nose job for years but has avoided it because of fear of ...
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