ABSTRACT
Skin disorders are often amenable to improvement utilizing hypnotic suggestion, hypnomoments, or psychosomatic hypnoanalysis. For inflammatory skin disorders, suggestions can often influence the inflammatory process through neurohormonal or other mechanisms. For chronic viral infections such as the wart virus, hypnosis can help boost the delayed cellular immune response to eliminate the problem. Hypnotic suggestions can decrease discomfort and itching and alter habits such as scratching or picking or compliance with treatment. Teaching the patient self-hypnosis can strengthen the effectiveness of suggestions and increase the likelihood of permanent change through repeated hypnotic suggestions. Choosing moments when the patient appears to be strongly absorbed or in light trance can be key times to insert appropriate hypnomoment suggestions during regular office visits. For persistent skin disorders not responding to ordinary suggestions, psychosomatic hypnoanalysis may help reveal and permit correction of root problems to permit improvement or healing.
