ScienceDaily (Jan. 10, 2009) — The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide – laughing gas – may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study’s findings – that people are more suggestible under the gas – mean that dental patients may benefit from being coached to relax while undergoing sedation.
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Hypnosis ‘eases cancer op pain’
Breast cancer patients need less anaesthetic during operations if they have been relaxed by hypnosis beforehand, US research suggests.
NCH Press release about “The Fourth Kind” movie
Films are often, deliberately, pretending to portray a truth that is stranger than fiction. But the largest hypnotherapy association in the UK, the National Council for Hypnotherapy, has come out against the recently-released The Fourth Kind as giving an inaccurate, unrealistic and unhelpful portrayal of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
