Gynecology

The female generative tract is extremely susceptible to the physiologic expression of emotions. Therefore, a high percentage of gynecologic symptoms have a psychosomatic or a psychogenic basis. Appropriate hypnotherapy can allay the anxieties and the tensions responsible for the majority of psychogenic symptoms by altering faulty attitudes concerning feminity and sexuality.

Modern hypnotic techniques employ autohypnosis and sensory-imagery conditioning, and hypnoanalysis. These methods are utilized for most patients in preference to that of direct symptom removal by authoritarian hypnotic techniques.

Below are a number of gynecological challenges of which hypnotic techniques are often successfully employed.

Hypothalamic Amenorrhea - Psychic factors can prevent the release of proper gonadotropic hormones to produce functional or “hypothalamic” amenorrhea. A prerequisite to hypnotherapy of functional amenorrhea is not only a physical examination but also a psychological evaluation of the attitudes toward menstruation and psychosexual functioning. Amenorrhea has been treated effectively by hypnosis.

Pseudocyesis, or Phantom Pregnancy, is characterized by some of the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, such as amenorrhea, enlargement of breasts, and change in the body contour. This condition convincingly illustrates how psychic factors can influence the endocrine system. One should not forcefully confront the patient with her delusion, but she must be aware of the emotional needs for maintaining the “pregnancy”. Permissive hypnotic techniques are more likely to uncover the need for the pregnancy fantasy. Sensory-imagery conditioning under authohypnosis, involving recall of the entire menstrual experience, often can be a valuable adjunctive procedure in relieving pseudocyesis.

Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding – Psychic shock may cause profuse vaginal bleeding. Irregular bleeding may be the somatic equivalent of the grief and the depression following the loss of a loved one. Hypnotherapy is considered an adjunctive procedure to endocrine and medical treatment of uterine bleeding.

Psychosomatic Infertility. Behind the outward desire to get pregnant is the deeply repressed wish not to get pregnant with this challenge, on the basis of emotional immaturity associated with fear of motherhood or feelings of inadequacy. Hypnosis can be a helpful adjunct in the treatment of infertility if the physician can understand the psychological conflicts of both partners. Post hypnotic suggestions and autohypnosis, by relaxation and healthful sensory-imagery conditioning, neutralize other anxieties and tensions. Wollman described successful treatment of infertility by hypnosis. Hypnosis may potentiate the effectiveness of artificial insemination.

Frigidity – The physician should emphasize that proficiency and complete gratification are not achieved until “there is a union of one personality with the other”, or until each of the partners is capable of “giving” instead of “getting”. Sexual compatibility is based on mutual respect, liking, and gradually established confidence – the basis for mature love. Many females blame their sexual problems on physical symptoms, particularly those which bring them to the physician. Organic frigidity is rare. Pseudofrigidity due to male ineptness or ignorance of sexual matters can readily be treated by superficial hypnotherapy, consisting of discussion and reeducation of the male. True frigidity, including dyspareunia due to vaginismus, is not a distinct clinical entity but a symptom of faulty conditioning during early psychosexual development. When trying to get at the factors responsible for sexual coldness, one must inquire how the wife feels about her husband as well as exploring beliefs about sex. One can also employ time distorting if the female requires prolonged contact and her husband has premature ejaculation – time can be lengthened to give them each greater satisfaction. Have a look at our Sexual Enhancements products page for help here, and if you don't see what you are looking for, please do enquire, there is much more available..

Low Back Pain (and pelvic pain) of emotional origin, if its function is determined, can be treated hypnotically by symptom-transformation – switching the symptom to another less incapacitating one.

Premenstrual Tension - Women with premenstrual tension suffer from emotional symptoms such as irritability, proneness to domestic friction, crying and depression. The symptoms of physical discomfort, such as backache, headache, and varying degrees of edema of the breasts, the abdomen, and the legs, are not as important as the emotional concomitants which often disturb the patient’s interpersonal relationships. In some instances, compulsive behavior, suicide, and unpremeditated criminal acts are due to the breakdown of defenses and the resultant lowering of the general sensory threshold coincidental with the premenstrual phase. Supportive hypnotherapy, consisting of reeducation, reassurance, and the development of strong rapport, through hypnosis, will enable most patients to face their life problems and not succumb to real or fancied symptoms. Experience indicates that the symptoms of premenstrual tension disappear to a significant degree when an understanding of the need for the symptom is achieved.

Menopausal Symptoms are attributed by the majority of clinicians to estrogen deficiency. Good results have been obtained in treating numerous patients with supportive hypnotherapy, oral estrogens and sedatives.

Natural Breast Enlargement through visual imagery during hypnosis was recently reported by Williams. He used age regression to the time period of initial breast growth to recapture the feeling and sensation of the breast enlarging. He also age progressed the subjects to a time when the breasts would be the size desired. Results indicated that at the end of 12 weekly sessions, 13 subjects averaged an increase in the circumference of the breasts of 2.11 inches.
There is also an interesting case of breast development by Milton Erickson in Mind-Body Communication in Hypnosis on pgs. 9 - 12.

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