Controversial opinion in the Guardian about the effectiveness of Hypnobirthing

 

Added 21st March 2013

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/21/quackery-shows-profit-no-place-healthcare

After reading this article this morning ,I feel really compelled to defend the effectiveness of hypnotherapy for a wide arena of clinical uses. In my view I think this piece of journalism is very poorly informed and badly researched and perhaps clearly biased by the experiences of the writer from her ability  to achieve the hypnotic state. 

What a shame Zoe Williams ,the journalist who wrote this damning article has such a narrow misinformed understanding of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. I would recommend that a study of the eminent surgeon James Esdaile who conducted thousands of operations using hypnosis without the use of anaesthetics before they were commonly in use would perhaps lead her to learn and understand about the Esdaile state or to give its correct name somnambulism. In the state of somnambulism it is possible to carry out operations as evidenced by a BBC documentary with Cathy Sykes on alternative medicine televised in 2007 where the subject was a female patient who had a tooth extracted without the use of anaesthetics but was in a clinically induced state of somnambulism through hypnosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q7CoqFud5s&playnext=1&list=PL41345E741B404559&feature=results_video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ieEyD_fcuU&list=PL41345E741B404559 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48hDDAFsR-4&list=PL41345E741B404559

 

 

Trevor Wales. Dip  Hyp. GQHP. BWRT. GHR. CRSST. CNHC. 

 

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