Hypnosis and pain control

As a recent UK documentary , Hypnosurgery, has shown , hypnosis has much to offer patients in hospital and medical settings.

In the days before reliable anaesthetics hypnosis was often used as a means of pain control - Dr James Esdaille , for example, performed hundreds of operations in India using hypnosis to virtually anaesthetise patients.

Even the British Medical Association realised the power of hypnosis to manage pain in a report published in the late 19th century.