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Phone In the year 2007, Antea U.O.C.P. (Palliative Care Operating Unit) aimed at proving if the
Hypnotic Psychotherapy practiced on terminal oncology patients (three months of prognosis) and
associated to pharmacological therapy can prevent symptoms such as pain, dyspnea, fatigue,
Mobile phone anxiety and depression.
The patients who underwent Hypnotic Psychotherapy were 54 among men and women (31-90
age range). They were cared in Hospice or at home and supported by an équipe composed of
trained nurse, physician, physiotherapist volunteers and psychotherapist.
Please underline the most Hypnotic Psychotherapy seemed to be useful in strengthening Ego of patients and improving their
appropriate category for your own resources and skills. Among the different psychological strategic techniques,
abstract psychotherapists tried to recreate virtual reality with the aid of sea sand to be handled by patients
themselves together with the aid of a computer reproducing beautiful and relaxing images. These
• Pain and other symptoms
techniques were useful to patients in feeling themselves more as human being and less as
• Palliative care for cancer patients patients.
• Palliative care for non cancer
patients The result of different points of view (patients, care-givers, medical staff) is:
• Paediatric palliative care
43%: symptoms decreased and less pharmacological therapy was necessary (48%
• Palliative care for the elderly
on a whole)
• The actors of palliative care
33%: symptoms decreased
• Latest on drugs 24%: symptoms still exist
• Bureaucratic pain 76%: patients achieved a better quality of life
• Illness and suffering through
This study is significant to realize that Hypnotic Psychotherapy can complement
media
pharmacological therapy and prevent symptoms in terminal patients. More research is needed
• Marginalisation and social stigma about this.
at the end of life
• Palliative care advocacy projects