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Vitiligo
Research
Alternative
& Complementary Therapies
Hypnotherapy
and Psychotherapy
All physical
diseases including cancer, heart disease but particularly skin complaints
have been helped with Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. The power of
suggestion and mental imagery is a tool all too often overlooked but which
can be of immense help to vitiligo sufferers.
Firstly, Hypnotherapy and
Psychotherapy are both excellent aids to help control emotional stress
associated with vitiligo and other skin diseases(1). In one study
conducted in Russia, not only were psychological problems eliminated but
the researchers also observed marked repigmentation in over 20% of cases
and that the period necessary to achieve marked repigmentation (i.e. of
more than 50%) was twice as fast with psychotherapy.
This indicates that
psychotherapy and hypnotherapy not only may be effective therapy by
themselves but they are almost certainly a beneficial adjunct to other
therapies in helping to speed up the recovery process were cut down by
half.
- (1) Results of the
therapeutic correction of psychoautonomic disorders in patients with
vitiligo] Rezul'taty lechebnoi korrektsii
psikhovegetativnykh rasstroistv u bol'nykh vitiligo. Koshevenko
IuN Vestn Dermatol Venerol (USSR) 1989, (11) p37-9
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