“Poems in the Waiting Room”

Have you ever heard of “Poems in the Waiting Room”?    

Well, I hadn’t either until I read about it in Mental Floss May-June 2011.

Poetry in the waiting room sounds to me like a combination of placebo effect and hypnosis to achieve a better current situation and encouraging a positive outcome.

Snippets from the link below I found interesting….

…. make the patient's wait more pleasant.

…. The readers are patients - the worried well and the worried sick.

…. The readers are patients - the worried well and the worried sick. The poems selected draw from the springs of well-being. In time of trouble, a measure of comfort is welcome".

…. The essential is that they all contain positive images of hope, home, security, safe journey and arrival, beauty and transcendence, love and loving.

 

Sounds to me that these poems are relaxing the patient and helping them focus on expecting a positive outcome – i.e. hypnosis & placebo - just like The Virtual Healing Machine.

Please see below for more information –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poems_in_the_Waiting_Room

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