Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy in Palliative Care Symptom Control and Spiritual Attendance

摘要

Profound knowledge and experience of trance phenomenons and the use of hypnotherapy considerable enrich the range of modalities in pallative care. Hypnotherapy is an appreciative and resource-oriented technique for treatment of common symptoms occuring in palliative care, such as pain, dyspnoea, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, pruritus or insomnia on one hand, as well as for psychosocial and spiritual attendance on the other. All 4 dimensions of palliative care (WHO-definition 2002) are respected by hypnotherapy! Verification of efficiency partly exists from other contexts [1]: Hypnotherapy is evidence-based or - sometimes in palliative care - at least "off label use".