The use of hypnosis in the care of the cancer patient
1954; Wiley; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/1097-0142(195401)7
ISSN1097-0142
Autores Tópico(s)Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
ResumoONLY THE MIND that is important in can-I cer, for it alone carries the burden of the disease.37Hans Zinsser expressed this thought when he said: "As it is, my mind and my spirit, my thoughts and my love, all that I really am, is inseparably tied up with the failing capacities of these outworn organs."Philosophically, only mind is important.We need not stress the treatment of cancer, for that is the main intent today.The attack on cancer has been so consistently emphasized that the emotional aspect of this disease is entirely in the background.At this time when radical surgery, high-voltage radiotherapy, glandular extirpation, hormone administration, and radioactive drugs are used freely, it may be timely to appraise that cancer patient who is an individual with a death sentence.Most of us with our occidental philosopsy of life, believe that death is the end of consciousness, and few approach it without the feeling of Hamleto? when he said that death is a land Erom which no traveler returns.Certainly, this threat of extinction is the most difficult problem the conscious mind has to reconcile.This psychological approach may be traced to Freud's4 revolt against the cellular philosophy of Virchow, and, as a result, our knowledge of functional disease has been greatly enriched.3.% 16, 22*Mental factors in what were previously considered to be purely organic disease, such as hypertension,2, 48 diabetes29 tuberculosis,6 ulcerative colitis,17 and peptic ulcer, Cave been demonstrated.Finally Virchow's own citadel has been invaded, and the cancer patient has been found to exhibit defenses identical with those observed in psychoneurotics.e*As the microscope, Virchow, and Pathology led to the great advances in exact laboratory investigation and physical medicine, so did mesmerism, Freud, and Psychiatry lead to an
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