From the placement of the catheter under the skin - a particularly trying step because it signifies the effective entry into the treatments and the end of life "from before", since this small box will deliver chemotherapy -, hypnosis shoulder women .

Whether it is induced by the hypnotherapist or by the patients themselves, once formed by the doctor to self-hypnosis, in three to seven sessions.

Relieving pain in the mastectomy

"It really changes women's lives to be able to take control of their brains to manage the symptoms of long-term treatments, because some of them are handicaps on a daily basis," says Dr. Aurore Marcou, an anesthetist and hypnotherapist at Institut Curie.

Thus, hypnosis relieves the brutal pain such as spear thrusts, which some women experience at the level of the mastectomy, which are due to the section of the nerve endings and to the cerebral reorganization which is done via parasitic signals. "

Teach the brain to decondition

Same effectiveness for joint pain, hot flashes, sleep disorders .

"These disorders are reflex reactions of the brain with respect to certain treatments and hormonal fluctuations.With hypnosis, we can work with our unconscious brain to teach it to decondition and then to turn off, in relation to these different stimuli, and therefore limit the symptoms, "decodes Dr. Marcou.