On The Psyche And Warts I; Suggestion And Warts: A Review And Comment
Psychosomatic Medicine 21(6): 1959; 437-488
View Original Source →Abstract
The present case report describes a nine-year-old girl with multiple common warts. The lesions were refractory to routine dermatologic treatment but appeared to respond dramatically to hypnotherapy. The patient’s schoolwork concomitantly improved. The authors present a brief discussion of the literature and indicate some problems for future study.
Case Details
Remission Characteristics
The cure of warts can be brought about by psychological means generally associated with the term suggestion
Treatment & Mechanisms
Proposed Remission Mechanisms
An affective response must be set up in the patient. The ritual involved in the various lay approaches and the procedures employed in the medical techniques to effect a cure by suggestion both result in the temporary suspension of the discriminative, critical, and evaluative faculties of the patient in favor of certain emotional reactions engendered by the situation.
Clinical Treatment
X-ray, drugs, and even surgery
Non-Clinical Treatment
Suggestion therapy, hypnosis
Additional Notes
The considerations here presented warrant the further exploratory use of hypnosis as a procedure incorporating many of the elements that appear to be involved in the various accounts of the cure of warts by suggestion.