No less interesting are the possibilities offered by hypnosis in childbirth. A number of medical authorities, among them von Oettiger, J. Raefler, Schultze, and Mohr, advocated suggestion to facilitate labor, especially when the mother is psychologically opposed to having a baby. In commenting upon this question, Mohr said in effect: "There are a number of well authenticated cases in which the term of labor was fixed in hypnosis and the term kept. This offers a therapeutic possibility which is not surprising if one recalls how often psychic excitement exerts an accelerating or inhibiting influence on the process of labor. The extent to which the normal course of labor may be disturbed by psychic factors is seen perhaps most readily in cases where, because of complete distraction of attention, the automatic course of the process is not inhibited, i.e., in psychotic patients. A woman whose earlier deliveries could be handled only instrumentally can give birth easily in abnormally short time to a child of the same weight, after she has become mentally ill (this is something to which Bleuler also has called attention.)"
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