[Hypnosis and anxiety problems].

This article describes how hypnosis can be used as an efficient technique in treating patients with anxious disorders. Hypnosis can be used to achieve a better control of the anxious symptoms through relaxation. It allows the patient to anticipate the anxiety triggering events.

[Post-traumatic stress syndrome in surgery of the hand].

During our collaboration with the Hand Surgery Unit (HCUG), we have managed trauma patients presenting lesions of the upper limb of varying degrees of severity. We were particularly interested in patients who had undergone amputations. We observed that late psychiatric interventions were generally poorly accepted by the patients and were of no use to these patients.

[Psychogenic spastic hand].

Twelve patients seen over a 8-year period with psychogenic spasms of the hand are reported. Six elderly patients presented with extrinsic flexion of the two or three medial fingers with sparing of the thumb and index. Six other patients had various hand attitudes following coincidental but not causal trauma to the upper extremity.