Hypnosis in the Treatment of the "Hexed" Patient
JOHN E. SNELL M.D.1
1 Director, Briggs Clinic, Boston State Hospital, 591 Morton St., Boston, Mass. 02124, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
As psychiatric services are expanded to reach a broader population, the clinic psychiatrist in the South is increasingly likely to encounter the patient who attributes his psychiatric symptomatology to the working of a hex. The author suggests that an understanding of this cultural phenomenon is highly important to the creation of a good therapeutic relationship and offers the technique of hypnosis as an effective method of therapy for the "hexed" patient.
