
Pain Relief with Hypnosis 1
with Dr David Patterson
In this session, Dr David Patterson investigates assessing pain for treatment with psychological approaches and hypnosis. Dr Patterson discusses the benefit of using a biopsychosocial approach to assess chronic pain.
In this session, Dr David Patterson investigates the neurophysiology of mindfulness. He explains the science behind Zen Buddhism and mindfulness and outlines ways to bring our patients into the present to reduce their pain and suffering.
In this session, Dr David Patterson investigates integrating hypnosis and mindfulness. Dr Patterson outlines the principles that he implements when integrating mindfulness with hypnosis and provides us with strategies to help our patients put unpleasant thoughts or feelings into observation.
In this session, Dr David Patterson investigates empirical support for hypnosis and pain referring to the scientific evidence that has been developed in the past few decades. He discusses the results from randomised controlled trials showing that hypnosis reduces pain and what neuroimaging studies reveal about the affect of hypnosis on the brain.