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hypnotherapy
guidelines and precautions
psychospiritual approaches
definition
GUIDELINES:
Psychotherapeutic indications:
* Psychological factors affecting physical conditions.
* Disorders of self-control (for example; drug, alcohol, eating, smoking addictions).
* Need for pain suppression.
* Anxiety disorders.
* Dissociative disorders (psychogenic amnesia and fugue).
* Multiple personality.
(Kaplan, p. 1509-1514)
Possible uses of hypnosis in dermatology; D.B. Cheek: In essence, the use of hypnosis in the therapy of skin diseases can be outlined as a building up of self-respect and a pyramiding of hope. The methods used are applicable to the entire scope of human illness as much as they are to dermatology. The reason for this appears to be that the normal status of animal, and thus human life is an optimal balance with environmental stresses. Hypnosis is one of the means by which that balance can be regained in illness, by using constructive imagination and releasing the enormous potential of the animal drive to survive. There are critical times when hypnosis can save a life. (Locke, 1986, p. 184)
PRECAUTIONS:
Contraindications:
* When the hypnotherapist's rescue fantasies are not recognized.
* When hypnosis is used in a coercive manner.
* Generally, it is not used in any psychotic disorder.
* Generally, it is not used with a person in a severe depression.
* Do not use with paranoid patients!
* Manic patients.
Hypnosis should be done by a trained hypnotherapist.
(Kaplan, p. 1509-1514)
Hypnosis and symptom displacement; M.B. Hollander: Symptom displacement through hypnosis seems ill-advised. The symptom is serving a function which may not be obvious, and if displaced the function may be taken over by something even more undesirable. There is also the ever-present possibility that the non-psychiatric physician may, in displacing a symptom, precipitate a crisis he or she is unprepared to handle. (Locke, 1986, p. 143)
see also:
bodymind psychobiology
converting a symptom to a signal
holographic paradigm
human energy fields: overview
hypnotherapy: overview
hypnotherapy: guidelines and precautions
hypnotherapy techniques: basic accessing; problem solving; incubating
healing; symptom scaling; trance
process paradigm
reframing
relaxation techniques
self-hypnosis
shifting cerebral hemispheric dominance
state-dependent learning
transference and countertransference
ultradian rhythms
footnotes