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not only its beneficence and non-maleficence but also To explain further, any communication and thus any
its efficacy. As highlighted before, given the nature and communication in multidisciplinary health care in/of/
quality of knowledge acquired in health care and, more by/from/about treatment or therapy incurs suggestion –
particularly, multidisciplinary (including interdisciplinary that is, waking suggestion, trance hypnosis, and waking
and cross-disciplinary) health care relating to human hypnosis, with or without awareness thereof, of/by oneself
anatomy, physiology, mind, (physical and social) and/or of/by another – and thus communication value.
environment, interaction (i.e., behavior), illness, disease, Accordingly, the efficacy of the health care practitioner’s
and the treatment, thereof, the efficacious, and not simply treatment or therapy is increased or decreased depending
beneficent and non-maleficent, utilization of hypnosis on the whether their utilization of suggestion in/of/by/
in health care is promoted by its (interdependent, from/about the treatment or therapy was effective or
coordinated) multidisciplinary utilization. ineffective. Put differently, given that any treatment or
therapy incurs behavior, and that any behavior (by way
Accordingly, the beneficent, non-maleficent, and
efficacious utilization of hypnosis in health care is of communication) incurs suggestion, the behavior of
treatment or therapy incurs suggestion, the effectiveness of
achieved by each discipline’s utilization of hypnosis with which determines its efficacy.
knowledge or content circumscribed by that discipline and
multidisciplinary health care, as a whole. Consequently, the potential utilization of hypnosis in,
and thus refiguration of, the practice of multidisciplinary
The multidisciplinary utilization of hypnosis in health health care is limited only by every discipline’s awareness,
care, however, requires clarification of its naming. training, and integrated utilization, thereof, in their

7.2.2. Naming treatment, therapy, care, or rehabilitation of mental
and/or physical illness and/or disease as part of their
Treatment disciplines may be divided roughly into two interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary whole functioning.
groups, namely, those disciplines (e.g., general practice,
surgery, dentistry, etc.) using medicine and/or surgical Illustration, then, of its utilization within
procedures typically referred to as treatment, and those multidisciplinary health care by way of two distinct
disciplines (e.g., psychology, speech language pathology, examples, one for treatment and the other therapy, that is,
occupational therapy, etc.) using communication general practice and psychotherapy, respectively, will now
procedures typically referred to as therapy. Accordingly, be briefly considered.
the integrated utilization of hypnosis in treatment and 7.3. Utilization in general practice
therapy disciplines may be termed “hypnosis-integrated-
treatment,” that is, hypnotreatment or hypnotreatment and 7.3.1. Minor surgical procedure
“hypnosis-integrated-therapy,” that is, hypnotherapy or A common minor surgical procedure in the discipline
hypnotherapy, respectively. Furthermore, the utilization of general practice is the dermal laceration repair with
of hypnosis in each discipline is simply, then, the use of sutures. Alleviation of the pain caused by this procedure
either term along with the discipline’s name, for example, is conventionally achieved through local anesthetic
hypnotreatment in general practice, surgery, or dentistry infiltration, that is, by injection (De Lemos, 2022; Tayeb
and hypnotherapy in psychology/psychotherapy, speech et al., 2017). However, the injection, itself, may cause
language pathology, or occupational therapy. significant pain, even if topical anesthetics are applied in
Having clarified the naming of the multidisciplinary advance to numb the area temporarily. Accordingly, many
utilization of hypnosis in health care, its potential value patients, especially children, fear injections (Tayeb et al.,
will now be discussed briefly. 2017). This not only precipitates mental distress but also
acute physical stress too, such as the acute stress response,
7.2.3. Value otherwise known as the fight-or-flight response (Cannon,
Although a comprehensive examination of the potential 1915), which is a survival or adaptive physiological
value of its utilization in multidisciplinary health care reaction that affects the regulation of all the systems of the
is beyond the scope of discussion here, an important body, including the cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine,
consideration is that, because it is available for utilization, gastrointestinal, nervous, muscular, and reproductive
is content-free, and can effect rapid, profound learning, systems (Chu et al., 2022).
the utilization of hypnosis by every discipline in However, such unwanted and potentially deleterious
multidisciplinary health care can improve the efficacy of mental and physical effects associated with injection can be
every discipline’s treatment or therapy and thus the field of readily avoided or managed utilizing trance and/or waking
multidisciplinary health care treatment, as a whole. hypnosis by means of rapid induction and suggestion

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