Sacerdote P
J Human Stress. 1978 Jun;4(2):18-21. doi: 10.1080/0097840X.1978.9934982.
For the past twenty years hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis have been utilized as valid tools for the successful management of severe protracted pain. Control often has been achieved in cases where other modalities of pain management had been inadequate. Hypnosis properly applied can bring some degree of improvement to 90 percent of patients. More remarkable degree of pain relief is achievable in the 25 percent of patients who have high hypnotic "talent," and with very limited expenditure of time and effort. The author discusses basic theories of pain, pain-control pain-control and hypnosis, and he clarifies the effects of physiological, biochemical, and psychological variables which can affect the procedures and the results. Presentation of a clinical case with quoted excerpts of verbalization serves to illustrate the most important points.
在过去二十年里，催眠疗法和自我催眠已被用作成功管理严重持续性疼痛的有效工具。在其他疼痛管理方式不足的情况下，通常也能实现控制。正确应用催眠可以使90%的患者得到一定程度的改善。在25%具有高催眠“天赋”的患者中，可以用非常有限的时间和精力实现更显著程度的疼痛缓解。作者讨论了疼痛的基本理论、疼痛控制和催眠，并阐明了可能影响治疗过程和结果的生理、生化和心理变量的作用。通过一个临床病例并引用言语化的摘录来说明要点。
