Stanford School of Medicine doctors have used controlled induction of seizures with hypnosis to diagnose children with seizure disorders. By inducing the seizures while the children were attached to monitoring equipment, they could quickly rule out epilepsy, rather than having to wait for days with the children attached to the equipment in the hope that they would have a seizure.
This sounds like a good approach to assist in diagnosing a number of disorders that can be caused or triggered by mental states. It’s especially effective with children, who tend to be more readily hypnotizable because of their active imaginations.
In the event, all of the eight children (out of nine) who they were able to induce turned out to have non-epileptic disorders. A side benefit: because of the way the process was conducted, they experienced the fact that they had potential control over the activity of their disorder. They were initially given relaxation suggestions and asked to imagine a safe and relaxing place, then to recall how they felt and what happened before one of their seizures. Once the seizure had come on and the data had been gathered, they were asked to go back to their safe place, whereupon the seizure stopped.
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