Intérêt et utilisation de l’hypnose pour améliorer le bien-être physique et psychologique en oncologie

Cancer and its treatments have several consequences: pain, fatigue, sleep disturbances, nausea, vomiting, hot flashes, and emotional distress. These symptoms negatively affect patients’ quality of life and can persist for years after treatment completion. Despite the difficulty to improve them with pharmacological approaches, hypnosis has often been ignored in oncology settings. Hypnosis can be defined as a particular state of consciousness during which focalized attention and concentration processes allows the person to be absorbed in their inner world, associated with a suspension of the awareness of the environment. During this procedure, a therapist will suggest to the patient some changes in their sensations, perceptions, thoughts or behaviors. Studies have shown the efficacy of hypnosis to decrease treatment and procedure-related pain DOI : 10.4267/2042/63778 A rt ic le or ig in al