2,500 participants from 26 countries. The 20th congress of the International Society of Hypnosis, of which the Ministry of Culture is a partner, is being held from August 26 to 29 in Paris. It puts hypnosis in the spotlight in all its forms.
If many variations, more or less serious, are proposed within the framework of this congress, one thing is certain: hypnosis is a discipline more and more taken seriously in the health sector.
For seven years since it first appeared in hospitals, hypnosis has sometimes been offered as an alternative to chemical anesthesia to reduce pain or, upstream, to relieve stress before surgery. At theAix en Provence hospital for example, one operates under hypnosis. With the patient’s consent of course. This “allows less anesthetic product to be injected into the patient’s body. He therefore recovers faster”, explained Delphine Baudoin, doctor in charge of the pain treatment unit at the Aix University Hospital, 20 minutes away.
Outside of operating rooms, more and more patients are using Ericksonian hypnosis to treat addictions such as the tobacco, eating disorders, phobias, or to lose weight. “In the so-called Ericksonnian hypnosis (named after the American psychiatrist Milton Erickson, pioneer of the revival of hypnosis), the most common, we work a lot with stories and metaphors as supports”, explains to AFP Dr. Claude Virot, psychiatrist and director of the congress.
You have to live and believe in it to understand, say the more skeptical in the face of this “alternative medicine”. The most curious (and motivated) can even work on them with theSelf Hypnosis and correct their little flaws.
An alternative to conventional medicine that divides
Hypnosis is not to the liking of the most Cartesians. The French Association for Scientific Information (Afis) doubts the seriousness of the approach and criticizes a dangerous confusion of genres with this congress on hypnosis between “medicine, spiritualism and esotericism” criticizing certain themes addressed such as “applied quantum physics to hypnosis “or” energy hypnotherapy “.
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