MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS WHO ADVOCATE THE USE OF HYPNOSIS

Clinical hypnotherapy has been widely researched and endorsed by many medical authorities for a wide variety of medical, dental, and psychotherapeutic uses. The consensus in the medical community is that hypnosis shortens treatment time and can provide invaluable relief when other treatments fail.  Hypnosis is used and recommended by such prestigious and well-respected institutions as the AMA, ADA, NIH, Kaiser Permanente, and Stanford University Medical Center.

• AMA approved the use of hypnosis in 1958
• American Dental Association (ADA) for dental phobia, treatment pain, when anesthesia cannot be used
• American Psychology Association (APA) for help with PTSD, ADD-ADHD, phobias, panic attacks, grief
• National Institute of Health (NIH) 1995, supports for treatment of chronic pain, side effects of oncology treatment, pediatric and elderly
• Stanford University Medical Center – David Spiegel, MD, major researcher in medical uses of hypnosis, in cancer treatment to reduce nausea, pain and anxiety being only one
• Harvard Medical University – reported that hypnosis seems to block the nerve receptors …those that affect pain, anxiety and discomfort
• Blue Shield of California, Medicare, Kaiser Permanente, hypnosis sometimes covered by insurance
• University of Washington Harborview Burn Center Center, David Patterson, MD – Hypnosis works miracles in burn care, which requires pulling off bandages and scrubbing the burned skin.
• UCLA School of Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health – Dr. Bruce Naliboff, PhD – hypnosis is very helpful in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA – Dr. Elvira Lang, MD has been using hypnosis for 13 years to provide pain-free breast biopsies and to calm patients, cutting treatment time and need for sedation

ARTICLES ON THE USE OF HYPNOSIS

• Hypnosis can help with problems from anxiety to pain
  By David Noonan - Newsweek, Sept. 27.

• Hypnosis and Smoking
  nbc5i.com - May 25,2004
  
  
• Hypnosis and Depression
  Medical News Today - June 1, 2004 –
  
  
• HEALTH: Hypnosis gaining respectability among doctors, patients
  BY MICHAEL WALDHOLZ - Wall Street Journal Sun, Oct. 12, 2003
  
  
• Hypnosis can help soothe irritable bowel syndrome -
  News 14 Carolina - By: Dr. Olafur S. Palsson, UNC Health Care - 7/28/2004

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RESEARCH ARTICLES ON THE MEDICAL USE OF HYPNOSIS

• Medical Hypnosis: An Underutilized Treatment Approach, Brian Alman, PhD,
  
  
• Hypnosis and nonhypnotic techniques for reduction of pain and anxiety during painful procedures in children and adolescents with cancer, Zeltzer L, LeBaron S., Zeltzer L, LeBaron S., 1: J Pediatr. 1982 Dec;101(6):1032-5.
  
  
• Group therapy and hypnosis reduce metastatic breast carcinoma pain,

• Hypnosis for the reduction of pain and nausea during cancer treatment: a controlled clinical trial.

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The list goes on and on but it is easy to see that hypnosis has earned its rightful place in the field of medical treatment.

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