title: Healing from loss: using clinical hypnosis to help navigate the way.
abstract: Clinical hypnosis is a technique for helping patients achieve an altered state of consciousness and is similar to guided imagery and other relaxation and focusing techniques. Clinicians can use it to help patients face powerful emotions such as those evoked during grief. This article describes the way clinical hypnosis can be used to help bereaved patients understand and gain control over their feelings.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grosklags
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001601:Bereavement; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008910:Minnesota