Pain Control

The dramatic pain suppressant effect of hypnoanesthesia has for a long time been a source of fascination and controversy. Surgical procedures ranging from appendectomies to thyroidectomies and from cesarean sections to open heart surgery have been carried out with hypnosis as the sole anesthetic, providing impressive and tangible evidence of the effectiveness that psychological factors can have in suppressing pain. Although it cannot be doubted that these procedures have been carried out with hypnosis.