ABSTRACT
The past few decades have seen a rapid growth in the investigation of neuroscientific and clinical studies on clinical hypnosis, as a complementary therapy in palliative care. Evidence of increases in interest in the field of neural correlates of clinical hypnosis, clinical, psychological, and spiritual therapies with hypnosis in palliative care is apparent by the amount of attention that many international clinical hypnosis societies pay to this topic.
In this chapter, we will explain that clinical hypnosis in palliative care is a safe and non-invasive medical and psychological therapy for relieving pain and symptoms in severe chronic diseases and cancer. The huge problems related to chronic and ultimately fatal diseases involve disability, pain, suffering, and the perception of one's destiny. This calls for a reappraisal of the conventional concepts of health and disease, life and death, encompassing spirituality and the mystery of death beyond any limited perspective.
