Subconscious guided therapy with hypnosis.

Full Abstract

Two adolescents were hospitalized with incapacitating symptoms:
one with headache, back pain, and an inability to walk, while the other had headache, musculoskeletal pain, nausea, and emesis. Medical evaluation did not reveal an etiology for the symptoms of either patient. Consultation with child psychiatry services yielded recommendations that both patients might benefit from counseling. Both demonstrated an immediate improvement of their symptoms with instruction in self-hypnosis-induced relaxation techniques that included favorite place imagery and progressive relaxation. The patients were told that while in hypnosis their "subconscious" might be able to characterize psychological issues that underlay their symptoms through the medium of automatic word processing (AWP). The information identified through AWP helped guide their subsequent therapy. Thus, instruction in self-hypnosis, as well as helping adolescents develop awareness about the cause of their debilitating symptoms can be associated with rapid improvement of their symptoms.

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Author information

Author/s: Anbar, Ran D (RD);

Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse 13210, USA. anbarr(-atsign-)upstate.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Case Reports; Journal Article

Journal: The American journal of clinical hypnosis (Am J Clin Hypn), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Apr; vol 50 (issue 4) : pp 323-34

Dates: Created 2008/06/05; Completed 2008/08/07;

PMID: 18524299, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Adolescent
Conversion Disorder - complications; psychology; therapy
Headache - etiology; therapy
Humans

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