title: [Approach to chronic pain by hypnosis: a general practitioner's experience].
abstract: Hypnosis is a modified state of consciousness linking the conscious and the unconscious of a person. In the context of chronic pain, hypnosis enables to help controlling the intensity of the pain, managing the pain and the emotions accompanying it and to help the patient finding his own resources allowing him getting involved in his treatment.
authors.affiliation: Centre multidisciplinaire de la douleur, Service de pharmacologie et toxicologie cliniques, HUG, Genève. grunenwaldmichele@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grünenwald
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D010821:Physicians, Family