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Reflections on hypnotizability and its impact on successful surgical hypnosis: a sole anesthetic for septoplasty
1Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, Washington, DC 20307-5001, USA. harold.wain@na.amedd.army.mil
Abstract:
While hypnosis has been a significant medical tool through the ages, its use has been, at best, capricious. After the development and widespread use of ether, hypnosis has been mostly relegated to the role of an adjunct to chemical anesthesia. The present paper describes a case where hypnosis was used as the sole anesthetic for a septoplasty. The chronology of the surgery, hypnotic suggestion and strategies used as well as the clinician's responses are described. The paper highlights relevant clinical issues such as the hypnotic capacity of the patient, associated hypnotic phenomena, enhancing trance, and maximizing the hypnotic capacity by "meeting them where they are."
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