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Neuroscience gets serious about hypnosis
Oakley DA, and Halligan PW (2013). Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 14 (8), 565-76 PMID: 23860312
Extract:
"Hypnosis is synonymous with stage entertainment where the performer puts volunteers from the audience into a trance and commands them to do embarrassing things. This makes it sound like a joke, but in fact hypnosis is a real phenomenon and it is proving increasingly useful to psychologists and neuroscientists, granting new insights into mental processes and medically unexplained neurological disorders".
Hypnotherapy 'should be adopted more widely'
06/06/2011
Extracts:
"Hypnotherapy should be used more frequently as a treatment, with it being particularly useful for pain relief.
This is according to Dr Peter Naish, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University and President-elect of the Hypnosis Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, who stated that it works as more than a placebo effect".
"The Department of Health recommends that members of the public, and those who commission services, consult Hypnotherapists who are registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the UK regulator for complementary healthcare practitioners."
Anxiety
https://www.evidence.nhs.uk
Hypnosis to manage distress related to medical procedures: a meta-analysis
Source: Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects - DARE - 24 March 2010
http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/cancers-in-general/treatment/complementary-alternative/therapies/hypnotherapy
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