title: Clinical implications of hypnotizability: enhancing the care of medical and surgical patients.
abstract: The need for crisis intervention and brief psychotherapy is becoming more evident with the increase of impersonal "high tech" approaches to patient care and the need to treat situational stress. The hospital experience has become one in which complex technology and bureaucracy may overpower all the participants, making it difficult for patients to respond optimally to available treatment. The hypnotic modality, with identification of individual capacity and responsivity, can be a bridge to transmit caring, comfort and respect; encourage patient participation to enhance biopsychosocial responses to illness, treatment and hospitalization; and to improve the skills of the health care provider. The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) will be discussed as a rapid and efficient method to identify individual resources and develop treatment strategies. Cases are presented to illustrate this approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenleaf
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality