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Article: Hypnosis: A dream state
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- New Orleans Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Jun 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Despite its hocuspocus image, hypnosis provides the medical community with an effective weapon against many illnesses.
Like most people, I had my doubts about hypnosis. Mystical, hocus-pocus stuff, I thought. Used for all the wrong reasons by magicians, or Rasputin-like characters who waved objects in front of people's faces while repeating, "You are getting sleeeepy." In making those assumptions I was wrong, and it took a New Orleans surgeon to set me straight.
Dabney Ewin, M.D., is a board-certified general surgeon, clinical professor of surgery and psychiatry at Tulane Medical School, and clinical professor of psychiatry at LSU Medical School. Ewin primarily practices occupational ...