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So-called hypnotherapy can help you better manage fears or pain. © Getty Images
Hypnosis in medicine? Some people think of floating subjects in a deep trance and brains that can be manipulated at will. In fact, so-called hypnotherapy is usually much less spectacular: through good persuasion and guided imagination, the inner experience is supposed to be changed so that fears or pain can be better managed.
Instead of panicking before a dental treatment, you can, under therapeutic guidance, imagine more pleasant situations – such as a beach scene by the sea – that help you relax. Such suggestion techniques are particularly useful when the psychological experience becomes a problem: in the case of fears or pain, eating or sleeping disorders, irritable bowel syndrome or quitting smoking.