Feeling Safe during Intensive Care: Protocol of a Pilot Study on Therapeutic Suggestions of Safety under Hypnosis in Patients with Non-Invasive Ventilation

Schmidt, Barbara; Deffner, Teresa; Rosendahl, Jenny

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“…In our lab, we developed an intervention using hypnosis to make participants feel safe. Our intervention effectively increased the subjective feeling of safety both in the EEG laboratory (Schmidt, Hoffmann, et al, 2020; Schmidt & Holroyd, 2021) and in highly stressful clinical settings such as the intensive care unit (Schmidt et al, 2021; Schmidt, Deffner, et al, 2020). In these studies, we suggested participants to feel safe using the mental image of a safe place.…”

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Safety on demand: Post‐hypnotic suggestions of safety reduce neural signals of reward sensitivity with long‐term beneficial effects

Böhmer¹,

Schmidt

2022

Psychophysiology

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Safety on demand: Post‐hypnotic suggestions of safety reduce neural signals of reward sensitivity with long‐term beneficial effects

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Schmidt

2022

Psychophysiology

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“…To induce a feeling of safety, we developed an intervention that uses hypnosis and the suggestion of a safe place. Suggesting feeling safe is a very effective and common method in hypnotherapy ( Arntz 2011 ; Schmidt et al. 2020 ).…”

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“…Suggestions work better when participants are hypnotized ( Hilgard and Tart, 1966 ), and positive suggestions during hypnosis can reduce anxiety and stress in medical contexts ( Tefikow et al. 2013 ; Kekecs and Varga 2014 ; Schmidt et al. 2020 ).…”

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Feel Safe and Money is Less Important! Hypnotic Suggestions of Safety Decrease Brain Responses to Monetary Rewards in a Risk Game

Schmidt¹,

Hoffmann²,

Rasch

2020

Cerebral Cortex Communications

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When a stimulus is important, the corresponding brain responses increase, especially the P300 brain response. This is true for all kinds of important stimuli, also monetary rewards. In our study, we developed a hypnotic suggestion to reduce the subjective importance of monetary rewards. As successful suggestions do not contain negations, we suggested participants to feel safe during hypnosis instead of suggesting that money is not important anymore. We predicted lower P300 amplitudes when participants feel safe during hypnosis. We tested 24 highly suggestible participants playing a risk game in two conditions with monetary rewards while we measured their EEG brain responses. In the safety condition, we induced a hypnotic state and suggested that participants feel safe. In the control condition, participants played the risk game without hypnosis. Here we show that participants felt significantly safer in the safety condition and showed significantly lower P300 amplitudes to monetary rewards. Risk behavior did not differ significantly between conditions. Our results are important for substance use disorders, as decreased P300 responses to substance-related stimuli are associated with less craving and better abstinence. Therefore, we conclude that suggestions to feel safe during hypnosis might work as a treatment for individuals with substance use disorders.

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“…During the intervention, patients received non-invasive ventilation and their physiological responses were measured by standard vital sign recordings. The protocol of this study was published previously [ 4 ]. Our study was approved by the ethics committee of the Jena University Hospital in Germany (#2019–1463; July 15, 2019).…”

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Hypnotic suggestions of safety improve well-being in non-invasively ventilated patients in the intensive care unit

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Safety on demand: Post‐hypnotic suggestions of safety reduce neural signals of reward sensitivity with long‐term beneficial effects

Safety on demand: Post‐hypnotic suggestions of safety reduce neural signals of reward sensitivity with long‐term beneficial effects

Feel Safe and Money is Less Important! Hypnotic Suggestions of Safety Decrease Brain Responses to Monetary Rewards in a Risk Game

Hypnotic suggestions of safety improve well-being in non-invasively ventilated patients in the intensive care unit

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