title: Hypnosis and the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
abstract: Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease can be cured if they are treated as autoimmune diseases with a special understanding of the personality conflicts in the patient. The author hypothesizes that all autoimmune diseases are characterized by a high normal amount of the aggressive instinctual drives and ambivalence about their realization. Each patient's personality causes the ambivalence to be somaticized into specific autoimmune bodies that aggressively are overproduced and then attack specific tissues. Hypnosis helps in gaining insight, reinforcing interpretations, handling stress, visualizing normal intestinal areas, and controlling of the autoimmune antibodies to the normal level. This paper deals specifically with these 2 diseases.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Irvine, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Schafer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008297:Male