title: Hypnosis: medicine's dirty word.
abstract: This paper attempts to understand the relationship between the clinical efficacy of hypnosis and its negative perception among many medical educators, practitioners and the general public. By exploring the history of hypnosis, an attempt was made to point out several events that may have led to both the past and current misperception of hypnosis which the author believes have caused hypnosis to become "medicine's dirty word".
authors.affiliation: University of South Florida, USA. wupshaw@hsc.usf.edu
authors.forename: William N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Upshaw
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000266:history; D011639:Public Opinion