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When to turn to hypnosis?

Hypnosis, a state between wakefulness and sleep, is now used in the treatment of certain health problems.

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By: Igor Strauss

1 min

Alternately adored then criticized, hypnosis has come back to the forefront of the medical and scientific scene for several years.

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This state between wakefulness and sleep is now used in the treatment of certain health problems.

His field of intervention is, par excellence, pain, whether acute or chronic.

Now, its use extends to other areas: surgery, palliative care, weight loss, anxiety, addictions... How can hypnosis help?

How does a hypnosis session take place?

• Lela KANKPE-KOMBATH

  , Nurse Anesthetist at the

  CH François Quesnay (Mantes - La Jolie 78)

  - Practices hypnosis in the operating room, in the maternity ward and in private practice.

  Teacher at

  the Vitruve Formation center in Paris

  .

  Lecturer in the hypnoanalgesia DU at

  Versailles Saint Quentin University in Yvelines (78)

  .

  Trains paramedical medical professionals in the practice of medical hypnosis. 

• Marine,

  a patient who used hypnosis during her delivery

• Dr Myriam Nciri,

  General Practitioner, President of the

  Moroccan Association of Clinical Hypnosis in Casablanca

• Sarah Dali

  , had breast cancer in 2020. Does hypnosis at the

  Dar Zhor association

  , a healing space for better living and going through the ordeal of cancer in Casablanca, Morocco

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We talk about it with  

, head of the Pneumology department at

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