title: Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control
author:  David R Patterson 
description: David R. Patterson, PhD, ABPP, is a professor in the departments of rehabilitation medicine, surgery, and psychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Currently, he is head of the Division of Psychology for his home department and chair of the ethics committee at Harborview Medical Center. Dr.Patterson has been working as a clinical psychologist at Harborview Medical Center since 1983, particularly in the burn unit and the psychology consultation and liaison service he created. He holds diplomate degrees in the areas of psychological hypnosis and rehabilitation psychology. Dr. Patterson has been instrumental in running psychology intern and postdoctoral training programs for more than 20 years and has mentored hundreds of clinical and research students. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1989, and he has published more than 150 articles and chapters in the areas of hypnosis, pain control, and adjustment to burn injuries and other types of trauma. His articles can be found in such journals as Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Abnornal Psychology, Pain, and the New England Journal of Medicine. As a long-time soccer player, he enjoys coaching his sons in this sport and playing drums for the Shrinking Heads rock-and-roll band.
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  International Journal of Clinical
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  Effects of Hypnotic Focused
  Analgesia on Dental Pain
  Threshold
  Enrico Facco a b , Edoardo Casiglia a b , Serena Masiero
  a b , Valery Tikhonoff a b , Margherita Giacomello a b &
  Gastone Zanette a b
  a University of Padua , Italy
  b Italian Center of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis ,
  Turin, Italy
  Published online: 25 Aug 2011.
  To cite this article: Enrico Facco , Edoardo Casiglia , Serena Masiero , Valery Tikhonoff ,
  Margherita Giacomello & Gastone Zanette (2011) Effects of Hypnotic Focused Analgesia on
  Dental Pain Threshold, International Journal of Clinic