Academics from the Faculty of Medicine collaborate on the book Clinical Hypnosis with Physical Health Problems

The book Clinical Hypnosis with Physical Health Problems was recently launched. The issue has chapters written by academics from the Faculty of Medicine: Miguel Sánchez, Adolfo Lambert, Priscila Sáez, Erik Álvarez, Paola Pinilla and Carlos Valenzuela. Likewise, the book was coordinated and edited by Dr. Felipe E. García (Chile) and Dr. Arnoldo Téllez López (Mexico).

The academics contributed to the work in Chapter Four: Clinical Hypnosis in the Management of Blood Pressure (Miguel Sánchez, Adolfo Lambert and Priscila Sáez) and Chapter Five: Clinical Hypnosis in the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Erick Álvarez, Paola Pinilla and Carlos Valenzuela).

In this context, the text aims to disseminate the usefulness of clinical hypnosis in different physical and psychosomatic health problems, understanding Hypnosis as an excellent state of consciousness in which imagination, visualization, ability to to accept therapeutic suggestions and open the panorama where relief is normally sought.

In this way, the authors hope that the issue will be of real help to psychologists, doctors and health professionals, interested in psychological intervention in physical health problems through hypnosis.

The work has 12 chapters by five international authors (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Iran and Mexico). The topics are related to: Hypnotherapy to strengthen emotions and the immune system, Hypnosis in patients with autoimmune diseases: Interventions in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; Self-administered hypnosis for pain regulation and quality of life for patients with fibromyalgia; Clinical hypnosis in the management of arterial hypertension; Clinical hypnosis in the management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome; Hypnosis in the management of Breast Cancer; Clinical hypnosis for pain in Mastectomy for Breast Cancer; Hypnosis in the treatment of somatic symptom disorders; Biopsychosocial Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy model of integral health; Hypnosis applied to sleep quality in Breast Cancer patients; Naturally, relaxed. An Ericksonian/Naturalistic Approach to Stress Management; Anesthesia and Hypnosis.