Hypnosis in Autoimmune Diseases
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Choose a medical condition that interests you and research it. Write about the possible uses of hypnosis in the treatment of the condition as you see them.
Author: MARIANA DUMITRIU
Tutor: ALAN DAVIDSON
Course Code: BOURN1S
Bournemouth, March 2012
This essay will aim to compile the hypnotherapy approaches in the treatment of the autoimmune diseases. I have a personal interest in this area, which prompted me to research this particularly growing medical group. The first chapter will be dedicated to the general medical knowledge about these conditions. The second chapter will refer to the practical information which needs to be taken into consideration in order to start planning the hypnotherapy sessions. In the third part of this essay I will include information about effective suggestions to use throughout the therapy. The conclusions will summarize the most important researches which were available to me at the time of writing this essay.
1. Medical considerations
The autoimmune diseases[i] arise from an inappropriate immune response[ii] of the own immune system against substances and tissues normally present in the body. The role of the immune system is to keep the body safe from injury and invasion. It is a complex system operating at all levels[iii] from the molecular to the systemic, always with the inborn goal of maintaining the body and its functions. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakes normal, healthy structures with foreign bodies, is activated against the body 's own proteins and starts destroying them. In autoimmune inflammatory diseases, it is the overreaction of the immune system, and its subsequent downstream signalling. The medical treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically an immunosuppressive one – medication which decreases the immune response. For a disease to be regarded as an autoimmune disease, it needs to answer to Witebsky 's
Choose a medical condition that interests you and research it. Write about the possible uses of hypnosis in the treatment of the condition as you see them.
Author: MARIANA DUMITRIU
Tutor: ALAN DAVIDSON
Course Code: BOURN1S
Bournemouth, March 2012
This essay will aim to compile the hypnotherapy approaches in the treatment of the autoimmune diseases. I have a personal interest in this area, which prompted me to research this particularly growing medical group. The first chapter will be dedicated to the general medical knowledge about these conditions. The second chapter will refer to the practical information which needs to be taken into consideration in order to start planning the hypnotherapy sessions. In the third part of this essay I will include information about effective suggestions to use throughout the therapy. The conclusions will summarize the most important researches which were available to me at the time of writing this essay.
1. Medical considerations
The autoimmune diseases[i] arise from an inappropriate immune response[ii] of the own immune system against substances and tissues normally present in the body. The role of the immune system is to keep the body safe from injury and invasion. It is a complex system operating at all levels[iii] from the molecular to the systemic, always with the inborn goal of maintaining the body and its functions. In autoimmune diseases, the immune system mistakes normal, healthy structures with foreign bodies, is activated against the body 's own proteins and starts destroying them. In autoimmune inflammatory diseases, it is the overreaction of the immune system, and its subsequent downstream signalling. The medical treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically an immunosuppressive one – medication which decreases the immune response. For a disease to be regarded as an autoimmune disease, it needs to answer to Witebsky 's
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