Hypnosis as an "entree" for consultation-liaison psychiatry.
In addition to its indicated uses, hypnosis can play another important, more indirect role in consultation-liaison psychiatry. It can serve the consulting psychiatrist as an entree to physicians or who have rejected traditional psychiatric help. Four case studies which illustrate this point are presented and discussed.
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