title: [Hypnosis in medical psychotherapy practice].
abstract: As doctors we are required to pursue symptom complaints and treat them, no matter whether they bear objectively verifiable evidence of specific disorders or not. In treatment we also take Hypnosis background feelings, conflicts or fatigue into account as contributing components. This fact pertaining to the practice of medical psychotherapy is central to the treatment of all patients suffering from psychosomatic disorders--i.e. approximately one half of all patients being treated by general practitioners. Here hypnosis and self-hypnosis can serve well in the formulation of therapeutic goals as well as in diagnostic clarification. Hypnosis is above all else useful in encouraging patients to contribute their very own individual resources to a multi-modal and interdisciplinary comprehensive therapy concept. This proves itself in the long run to be a factor that promotes a significant emancipation of the patient from those dependencies that are an outgrowth of illness (see hypnosis and self-hypnosis for symptom control) as well as the treatment system (optimal coping, self management) through the application of personal skills. A bio-psycho-social understanding of disorder is--both for ourselves as medical doctors (as "specialists of the objective dimension of the body") and for our patients (as "specialists of the subjective dimension of person")--a "conditio sine qua non".
authors.affiliation: dr.h.ebell@t-online.de
authors.forename: Hansjörg
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ebell
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012803:Sick Role; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*