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Article: Hypnosis: Medicine's Dirty Word
- Article from:
- American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
- Author:
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Abstract
This paper attempts to understand the relationship between the clinical efficacy of hypnosis and its negative perception among many medical educators, practitioners and the general public. By exploring the history of hypnosis, an attempt was made to point out several events that may have led to both the past and current misperception of hypnosis which the author believes have caused hypnosis to become "medicine's dirty word."
Keywords: Hypnosis, medical uses, history, medicine, public opinion, evidence.
Introduction
I was first introduced to hypnosis as a third year medical student. Our medical school class was given a series of lectures on the subject by Dabney Ewin, MD, who has ...