Échapper à la douleur : l'hypnose et le pouvoir de rêver

Hypnotic state, whether spontaneously occurring or suggested by a therapist, allows the person to escape from difficult reality, from suffering or from pain and to get free from them momentaneously or definitively. Capability of transforming own feelings and sensations, access to other ways of perceiving oneself and the external world, opening of imagination, that all constitute the power of dreaming. When working with chronic patients, the hypnotherapist deals his knowledge with the patient in order to motivate him and to help him moving away from centration on pain. The practitioner has to adapt to each patient's resources and capabilities.