The Role of Hypnosis in Modern Medical Practice

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**Chapter 1**

**Abstract**

Hypnosis

*Cengiz Mordeniz*

injection or side effects.

**2. History of hypnosis**

rapport, resonance

**1. Definition**

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy:

Hypnosis, which has been used for centuries in different forms, has to be reevaluated in the light of modern medicine and science by biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual approach. Hypnosis has been regaining its popularity in the trend of personalized and holistic medicine without any drug,

**Keywords:** hypnosis, dissociation, absorption, fantasy proneness, imaginative capabilities, eye-movement techniques, expectancies, imaginative involvement,

enhances imagery to therapeutically recover forgotten incidents [1].

Hypnosis is an agreement of a social interaction between a subject (designated as patient) and the hypnotist (healthcare professional) who suggests imaginative experiences to change sensation, cognition, affect, mood, or behavior in perception, memory, and voluntary control of action. Hypnosis promotes relaxation,

In mythology, Hypnos (Somnus, in Latin) is the personification of sleep who lived with his twin brother, Thanatos (Θάνατος, "death personified") in a dark under world cave on Lemnos island (according to Homer or Book XI of Ovid's Metamorphoses) without any light from the sun or the moon; where flowed Lethe, the river of forgetfulness. His parents were Nyx (Νύξ, night) and Erebus (darkness), and he married with, Pasithea, the goddess of marriage and birth and the deity of hallucination and relaxation. Their sons called Oneiroi (dreams) were bringers of dreams. Among them Morpheus, brought human dreams; Icelus, animal dreams; and Phantasus, dreams of inanimate things. A bronze head of Hypnos is in British Museum in London (**Figure 1**). The English word "hypnosis" refers to a person put into a sleep-like state (hypnos "sleep" + −osis "condition"). Hypnosis was used in the temples of Aesculapius, the God of Medicine, where priests advised patients during their sleep as gods talking to them in their dreams. Etymologically speaking, Somnus, Latin word for sleep, is the source of many English words such as insomnia (sleeplessness), somnolent (sleepy), hypersomnia

(excessive sleep), and hypnotics(sleep inducing drugs) among many others [3].

Emerging of Science-Based
