HYPNOTHERAPY AND CONTRACTURES OF THE HAND

Contractures of the hand are rather uncommon conversion phenomena. As yet, very little is known about treatment. After a brief overview of t he literature on the various treatment strategies, we describe the tre atment of four patients. There are indications that a complaint-center ed approach, which attempts to influence the symptom directly, produce s positive results. Hypnotherapeutic techniques were used in the four patients described here. Treatment resulted in improvement in three of the four.