Supporting Patient Comfort Through Rapid Hypnotic Techniques with Elvira Lang-Anderson, M.D.

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Empowering patients or clients to have authority and control over their medical experiences is vital to beneficial therapeutic care. Likewise, well-crafted use of professional communication skills in setting expectations about clinical procedures and outcomes can mean the difference between a traumatic medical visit versus one being remembered with gratitude. Clinical studies show that clinicians trained in hypnotic skills can effectively help patients be more receptive to well-placed suggestions that may help reduce discomfort, eliminate the need for certain medications, lessen the side effects of treatments, and offer moderation over anxiety. Dr. Elvira Lang-Anderson, MD, PhD, is an award-winning interventional radiologist and founder of Comfort Talk®. This skills-based program fosters improvement of patient satisfaction, optimizing outcomes, and the ability to complete medical procedures through rapid rapport and "word choice" techniques. She has studied patient/provider interactions and their impact on health outcomes, staff satisfaction, and the results of different techniques on the overall efficiency of healthcare systems. Come learn the “state of the art” in this important interview for all. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum.
0:09.9	And I've been wanting to get my next guest on a recording for a really long time.
0:17.0	I'm so delighted to do this recording because we have a medical doctor, an expert on hypnosis,
0:26.3	someone I know professionally from my own involvement with the New England Society of Clinical
0:32.2	Hypnosis where my guest served as president. She was also president of the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
0:41.2	So we have Elvira Lang Anderson, MD, Ph.D., with us for the positive side of the influence continuum,
0:51.8	talking all about the healthy ethical uses that caregivers in the
0:58.0	medical system can understand how to help patients, clients, lower their anxiety and stress,
1:08.7	and help their body's natural healing to be employed. I'm going to just read
1:14.7	some more laudatories. I'll vary if you don't mind. You're an award-winning interventional radiologist.
1:22.0	You've been researching the effectiveness and cost savings of rapid hypnotic techniques in medicine and dentistry.
1:30.1	And you have crystallized these techniques and founded Comfort Talk, which is a registered
1:36.6	trademark. You've done large-scale clinical trials with over 135,000 patients demonstrating that comfort talk skills,
1:48.6	including guidance and self-hypnotic relaxation, a reduction of pain, anxiety, drug use,
1:56.3	and complications on the operating table, which can improve patient satisfaction and ability to
2:03.3	complete MRI examinations. I recently had one, so I know how noisy and scary it is.
2:09.3	I had one on my ankle. Your recent interests examined patient provider interactions about their
2:17.0	impact on health outcomes, staff
2:19.6	satisfaction, resilience. You've won awards, the Ernest R. Hillgard Award for Scientific Excellence
2:27.8	for a lifetime of published experimental works. And need to plug a book that I've been giving to my dentists and doctors since it came
2:40.7	out, Elvira, explaining things like, you don't tell the patient this is going to be painful.
2:49.3	Like, that is going to elicit an expectation set of pain as opposed to this will be fast
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