Applicability of hypnosis to the treatment of Complex PTSD and dissociation

An exploration of the antecedents and mechanisms causing athletes’ stress and twisties symptom

“…If twisties are completely caused by psychodynamics, hypnosis may not end and will take long turns. Therefore, this study suggested that it is still necessary to understand the mechanism of athletes' twisties and give formal psychotherapy such as depriving pathogenic value ( Gold and Quiñones, 2020 ; Spiegel and Cardena, 1990 ).…”

“…This is a dysfunction of a sensory mismatch between the mind and body ( Renaud, 2015 ). It is a disconnectedness between one's self-perceptions and the external world ( Carlson et al., 2018 ; Gold and Quiñones, 2020 ). Gupta and Basu (2021) also explained that it is generically rooted in mental health issues.…”

“…Dissociation disrupts usual integrated operational functions of consciousness, memory and environmental discernment ( American Psychiatric Association, 2013 ). The construct of dissociation involves an alteration in awareness which is the disconnectedness from one's self (emotions, thoughts, memories, sensations and beliefs) and its surrounding ( Gold and Quiñones, 2020 ; Heydrich et al., 2019 ; Schimmenti and Caretti, 2016 ).…”

“Twisties” and Olympic Games: A Role for Hypnosis in Top-Level Athletes Who Have Lost the Sense of the Self in Aerial Space?

“…We suggest that in these athletes a hypnotic treatment can solve or contribute to solving the problem of twisties in a shorter time, even in one or two sessions, both allowing through age regression/revivification the very rapid identification, for instance by hypnotic age regression (Giordano et al, 2012), of a removed trauma, either by administering suggestions in therapeutic settings aimed at raising awareness of the trauma and/or depriving it of its pathogenic value (Gold & Quiñones, 2020;Spiegel & Cardena, 1990).…”