Mental Health Update

Using hypnosis for pain management and as an alternative to anesthesia.

Before I begin to induce hypnosis in cancer patients, I explain to them that pain isn’t a simple, pure thing. There is hard pain, there is soft pain, burning pain, cold pain, stabbing, cutting, heavy pain. I think of all the possible adjectives that I can to describe the pain so that my patient will listen to me. Then I point out to the patient, “You know, pain in some part of your body doesn’t hurt you half as much as it does in another part of your body. “ I know from psychiatric practice that people can displace sensations.

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