When we think of women’s health, our thoughts are automatically directed towards images of nurses and physicians, especially ob/gyns. However, there are also psychological approaches to this topic.
Many health concerns are best treated when physicians and mental health providers act together as a team.
I attended a workshop in Denver recently that was given by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH). It was taught by Jackie Irland, M.D., fellow, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and assistant professor of the same discipline at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her co-instructor was Molly Delaney, doctor of psychology, ASCH-approved consultant, who is in private practice in Maine.
Some therapy goals for infertility problems can be to increase coping skills for physical, emotional and hormonal fluctuations, to stabilize the autonomic nervous system, to strengthen the ego, and to prepare for medical procedures.
Most of us have probably heard stories in which a couple tried hard to conceive a child, had fertility studies done, in vitro fertilization and so on. All this pain and expense. Once the couple relaxed and allowed things to happen naturally, they had a child.
Tags : hypnosis, infertility
