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This programme investigates what we really know about hypnotherapy and its effectiveness in treating addictions and conditions including smoking, obesity, tinnitus, phobias, allergies and anxiety. ...Kate Sykes follows patients who are trying the therapy for themselves; sees hypnotherapists at work and meets scientists looking inside our brains to try and unravel what might be going on during hypnosis. The programme asks whether there is evidence to support widespread belief that treatment by hypnosis has genuine health benefits. At the South Manchester Hospital Sykes meets Professor Peter Whorwell who is pioneering the use of hypnotherapy to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome; in Scotland she meets Mandy whose dentist is about carry out an extraction using hypnotherapy instead of local anesthetic.
This programme investigates what we really know about hypnotherapy and its effectiveness in treating addictions and conditions including smoking, obesity, tinnitus, phobias, allergies and anxiety. ...Kate Sykes follows patients who are trying the therapy for themselves; sees hypnotherapists at work and meets scientists looking inside our brains to try and unravel what might be going on during hypnosis. The programme asks whether there is evidence to support widespread belief that treatment by hypnosis has genuine health benefits. At the South Manchester Hospital Sykes meets Professor Peter Whorwell who is pioneering the use of hypnotherapy to treat Irritable Bowel Syndrome; in Scotland she meets Mandy whose dentist is about carry out an extraction using hypnotherapy instead of local anesthetic.
| Series: | Alternative therapies |
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| First transmission date: | 2007 |
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:48 |
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| Director: | Nicola Stockley |
| Producer: | Nicola Stockley |
| Presenter: | Kathy Sykes |
| Contributors: | Richard Beaumont; Mike Gau; Irving Kirsch; Michael McKoy; Pierre Rainville; Amir Raz; Kathy Sykes; Elliot Ward; Peter Whorrwell |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/alternativetherapies/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Hypnotism--Therapeutic use |
| Production number: | JOUA481A |
| Videofinder number: | 7773 |
| Available to public: | no |
