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Why use hypnosis clinically?

Explore the diverse applications of hypnotic phenomena in clinical practice, from altering perception and modifying physiology to accessing unconscious processes and enhancing relaxation. Understand the potential benefits for managing pain, stress, anxiety, and various psychosomatic conditions. Discover how hypnosis can be an effective tool in treating phobias, PTSD, insomnia, and other challenging issues.

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Why use hypnosis clinically?

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  1. Why use hypnosis clinically? Utilizing hypnotic phenomena – applications in clinical practice.

  2. Hypnotic Phenomena:Important • You won’t see all of these phenomena all of the time • You may see some of these phenomena some of the time

  3. Hypnotic Phenomena • These phenomena don’t happen spontaneously but require an appropriate suggestion • Physiology mimics that of the suggested (imagined) experience

  4. Hypnotic Phenomena • Vision: • Blindness • Total (evidence from visual evoked potentials) • Selective e.g. numbers missing • Visual hallucinations • Hearing: • Deafness (evidence from auditory evoked potentials) • Auditory hallucinations

  5. Hypnotic Phenomena • Touch • Numbness • Hypersensitivity • Smell • Taste • Voluntary muscle: • Increased strength? • Rigidity/levitation • Automatic movements

  6. Alteration of Perception • Pain • Reduce acute pain • Manage chronic pain • In labour/surgical interventions • Time • Distortion • Regression • Sound • Tinnitus • ‘It won’t bother you’

  7. Access to Unconscious Processes • Psychosomatic conditions • Irritable bowel syndrome • Insomnia • Psychosexual problems • Migraine • Amazingly effective in PTSD • Phobias • Increased awareness of intuition

  8. Modification of Physiology • The stress response • Anxiety Relaxation • Inflammation • burns, eczema, asthma • Changes in immune response • Exam stress • Cancer: psychoneuroimmunology

  9. Modification of Physiology • Hormonal • Irregular periods / infertility • Reduction of bleeding • Surgery • Menorrhagia • Reduction of salivation

  10. Other Features of Hypnosis • Enhanced memory??? • Dissociation • Hidden Observer • Ideomotor responses • Post hypnotic suggestion

  11. Important • You won’t see all of these phenomena all of the time • You may see some of these phenomena some of the time • Responses may vary in the same person over time depending on their needs • Responses may vary with different combinations of patient and therapist

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