Hypnosis for pain management

peer reviewedThe purposes of this chapter are : - to provide a brief definition of hypnosis, hypnotic process and self-hypnosis. - to describe briefly the neurophysiological correlates of hypnosis and hypnotic analgesia. - to propose a short review of recent literature concerning the effectiveness of clinical hypnosis in chronic pain, emphasizing more specifically research on the effectiveness of hypnosis with migraine. - to address some questions about its daily clinical use