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Changing “Unchangeable” Bodily Processes by (Hypnotic) Suggestions: A New Look at Hypnosis, Cognitions, Imagining, and the Mind-Body Problem
Published in Anees A. Sheikh, Imagination and Healing, 2019
In five published studies, women who desired larger breasts were treated by hypnosuggestive procedures. The hypnotherapist typically informed the women that they would participate in weekly hypnosis sessions at the office for about twelve weeks and that they would be taught self-hypnosis to practice daily at home. In the office sessions, the women first were taught hypnosis and autohypnosis procedures—that is, they were taught to let go of extraneous concerns, to relax deeply, and to experience a profound feeling of calmness. After they had attained a state of deep calmness, they typically were given suggestions along the following lines (and they also were instructed to give themselves the same suggestions when practicing self-hypnosis at home): “Imagine that the sun (or a heat lamp) is shining on the breasts or that wet, warm towels are on the breasts and feel the heat as it flows through the breasts; imagine the breasts growing, as they did during puberty, and experience feelings of tenderness, swelling, and tightness of the skin over the breasts; and imagine that the breasts are becoming warm, tingling, pulsating, sensitive, and that they are growing.” Thus, hypnosis for breast enlargement involved procedures aimed at producing deep relaxation as well as suggestions to feel warmth and other sensations in the breast area and to feel the breasts growing.
Anxiety and depression
Published in Hilary McClafferty, Mind–Body Medicine in Clinical Practice, 2018
A review by Carlson et al. found that clinical hypnosis has good supporting evidence for decreasing symptoms of anxiety without the need for anxiolytic medication in both adult and pediatric oncology patient populations. Depending on the study participants, both therapist-guided and self-hypnosis were found to be effective in moderating pain, reducing overall emotional distress, sleep disturbance, and overall health-related quality of life (Carlson et al. 2017).
Hypnotherapy as an Intervention in Medicine and Psychiatry
Published in Assen Alladin, Michael Heap, Claire Frederick, Hypnotherapy Explained, 2018
Assen Alladin, Michael Heap, Claire Frederick
Hypnosis can be a very useful component of treatment, particularly as a powerful tool for reducing the heightened psychophysiological arousal and as a vehicle for exploring and restructuring unconscious conflicts (in the event that the patient is not responding to regular therapy and the patient or therapist suspects unconscious etiology). Hypnosis as a single treatment modality has been used successfully to alleviate insomnia (Dement and Vaughan, 2000; Hadley, 1996; Hammond, 1990; Hauri, 1993, 2000; Kryger, 2004; Spiegel and Spiegel, 1990; Stanton, 1990, 1999; Weaver and Becker, 1996). Hypnosis and self-hypnosis both offer rapid methods to manage anxiety and worry, facilitating deep relaxation, and controlling mental overactivity and decreasing physiological arousal, which are cardinal symptoms of insomnia (Bauer and McCanne, 1980; Hammond, 1990). Self-hypnosis is considered a voluntary relaxation technique (Dement and Vaughan, 2000) that is similar to meditation because it can ease the body and mind, preparing the body for sleep (Kryger, 2004).
Review of the international hypnosis literature
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2023
Shelagh Freedman, Ian Wickramasekera
More than half of people who undergo an amputation later suffer from phantom limb pain (PLP). The authors trained seven patients suffering from PLP in self-hypnosis. The training took place over two and a half months and included five 45-minute, in-person sessions. Each session included a 20-minute hypnosis session with a specific goal, such as learning to direct attention away from pain and analgesia and the reintegration of positive and comfortable bodily sensation experiences before the amputation. All patients reported a reduction in their pain intensity, the quality of the pain, their anxiety, and the severity of their insomnia. At a six-year follow-up, three patients were still practicing self-hypnosis and reported being more relaxed and having better pain management. Self-hypnosis can be an effective treatment for pain, emotional distress, and fatigue associated with PLP. This article presents all seven case studies and details of the self-hypnosis training as well as suggestions given in the five hypnosis sessions. Address for reprints: Aminata Bicego or Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse, Sensation and Perception Research Group, GIGA Consciousness, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium. E-Mails: [email protected] and [email protected]
Adjuvant Hypnotherapy for Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Randomized Pilot Study
Published in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2022
Seyda Efsun Ozgunay, Burcu Dincgez, Derya Karasu, Gulten Ozgen, Ibrahim Taymur, Sermin Eminoglu, Ilkay Ceylan
Hypnosis, while affecting the thoughts, feelings perceptions, and motor movements, may distract the attention from disturbing stimuli and can faciliate relaxation (Baram, 1995; Montgomery et al., 2002). This may be achieved by hypnotic suggestions to induce deep relaxation and reduce the sympathetic arousal. Further, patients can learn self-hypnosis to practice outside of therapy sessions (Facco, 2016; Simon & Schwartz, 1999; Werner et al., 2013). Despite limited reports on the application of hypnosis in HG, it has been shown to lead to positive outcomes (Wegrzyniak et al., 2012). Hypnotherapy for HG may be provided as an adjunct to usual medical care in individual or group-based sessions (Fuchs et al., 1980; McCormack, 2010; Simon & Schwartz, 1999). The number of sessions can vary, and different techniques such as relaxation, imagination, and ideomotor questioning can be used.
Caries treatment in a four-year-old boy using hypnosis – a case report
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2021
Thomas Gerhard Wolf, Katharina Nadja Kellerhoff, Albrecht Schmierer, Gudrun Schmierer, Ulrike Halsband
An anxious patient may have an increased expectation of pain and therefore also perceive an increased sensation of pain. However, the dentist must bear in mind that pain treatment is not to be compared with anxiety treatment (Armfield & Heaton, 2013). Anxiety and pain have been shown to be partially reduced or completely eliminated by the use of hypnosis, both in adults (Wolf, Wolf, Below et al., 2016) and in children (Huet, Lucas-Polomeni, Robert, Sixou, & Wodey, 2011; Oberoi, Panda, & Garg, 2016). According to the American Psychological Association (APA) Division 30, hypnosis is defined as “a state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterized by an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion” (Elkins, Barabasz, Council, & Spiegel, 2015). Hypnosis is often used as a collective term for various hypnotic methods, e.g. self-hypnosis, external hypnosis or hypnotherapy. In this case report, hypnosis was used, as is often the case in the dental setting, by the practitioner assisted by his dental assistant during treatment. Although tooth extractions (Abdeshahi, Hashemipour, Mesgarzadeh, Shahidi Payam, & Halaj Monfared, 2013) and placing an implant (Gheorghiu & Orleanu, 1982) with the use of hypnosis have been described, little is known about the effects of hypnosis to reduce anxiety and pain during pediatric dental treatments exept of a few described cases (Gottlieb, 2011).