Hypnosis for Pain Relief

BBC's One Show presenter Michael Mosley investigates hypnosis for pain relief with Stewart Derbyshire of Birmingham University.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• hypnosis
• pain
• anaesthesia

[Evilalchmist]

can this whipe memiory? I dont like to take chances with repressin..btw someone reply quick T.T

[BrightIdeasTraining]

People forget and misremember things all the time, of course. It's a normal part of human experience.

Although hypnosis can help someone delete part of their experience (like the sensation of pain) and in that way 'forget' it, it's a collaborative process so in a responsible setting, the hypnotist wouldn't be able to 'wipe' someone's memory against their will.

[BrightIdeasTraining]

@Evilalchmist (previous comment was for you too)

Regarding 'repression', usually if someone has had a bad experience, they usually remember it - they just prefer not to. The more common problem is helping someone let go of the emotions associated with a bad experience so they can remember it but without reliving the negative emotion.

[BrightIdeasTraining]

@Evilalchmist

A bigger concern with hypnosis is someone accidentally creating 'false memories' -- things that didn't happen but come to seem like real memories. Decent hypnotherapists would avoid that by not asking leading questions or making leading suggestions.

[Evilalchmist]

@BrightIdeasTraining I see I see..im ok now,i guess..was deqlin with emotional love stress bit im ok now

[BrightIdeasTraining]

@Evilalchmist Glad to hear it :-)

[kikikikia]

@vetteluvnh Thank you for the help

[vetteluvnh]

@kikikikia, Hope I can offer some insight. Have you ever been driving while you're thinking about something, then suddenly realize you don't remember anything you saw on the highway for the entrie time that you were thinking? That's a hypnotic state. In hypnosis you feel deeply relaxed & focused only on the hypnotists voice. Sometimes people feel like they're floating, but for the most part it's a deeply relaxed, focused state. Hope this helps. -Dennis Tucker C.Ht.

[kikikikia]

@BrightIdeasTraining Thank you very much

[BrightIdeasTraining]

There is no one particular feeling, Kikikia.

Hypnotists/therapists often talk about relaxation but people can go into laughing trances, running trances, depressed trances, dancing trances and so on. 

The unifying feature is becoming focused or absorbed in the experience.

This focus often means people notice how much time has passed and delete other sensory inputs from their experience - like in the pain example here.

Hope that helps.

[kikikikia]

Hi, I have a question and I'd appreciate any help in answering it. How can I be sure that I've been hypnotized or under hypnosis? Is there any feeling I should recognize or is there no feeling when you're under hypnosis? Thank you for any help.