Hypnotizability in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Pettinati, Helen M.

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1985.01790330094011

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“…After application of the Bonferroni procedure for multiple comparisons, the results indicated that only anorexia nervosa patients of the mixed type (M=3.2) and bulimia nervosa patients (M= 3.4) scored significantly higher on the SHCS than normal controls. These results confirm the findings of the studies carried out by Pettinati et al(1985), Barabasz (1990), and Griffiths (1993), who also demonstrated higher hypnotizability in eating disorder patients, especially bulimics, compared to normals.…”

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Dissociative and Hypnotic Experiences in Eating Disorder Patients: An Exploratory Study

Vanderlinden

Spinhoven

Vandereycken

et al. 1995

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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Hypnotizability, subjective experiences during hypnotizability assessment, and dissociation were studied in 53 eating disorder patients in order to explore the relationship between these phenomena. Dissociation was measured with a newly developed self-reporting Dissociation-Questionnaire (DIS-Q), level of hypnotizability was assessed with the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale (SHCS), subjective experiences during hypnosis with the Dutch Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (DPCI), and the Dutch Resistance to Hypnosis Scale (DRHS). Compared with normals, eating disorder patients scored significantly higher on the DIS-Q and SHCS. Compared with restricting anorexics, anorexics of the mixed type as well as bulimics report higher scores on both the DIS-Q and SHCS, but a significant difference was found only for the DIS-Q subscale loss of control. Although positive correlations between the DIS-Q and SHCS were found, the magnitude of the correlations shows that both instruments probably are measuring different constructs. Some implications of these findings are discussed.

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Dissociative and Hypnotic Experiences in Eating Disorder Patients: An Exploratory Study

Vanderlinden

Spinhoven

Vandereycken

et al. 1995

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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“…Beumont and Abraham (1983) reported that 75% of a group of 30 patients with bulimia had experienced symptoms of ••depersonalization and derealization." Pettinati, Home, and Staats (1985) reported that hypnotic capacity in the bulimic patient was significantly higher than in those patients with anorexia nervosa and a normal, age-matched population. Since hypnosis has been long conceptualized as a controlled state of dissociation, one can easily relate the findings of this paper to those of other investigators.…”

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Dissociative States Presenting as an Eating Disorder

Torem

1986

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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“…For example, dissociation has been proposed as an important clinical characteristic in some bulimic patients (Chandarana & Malla, 1989;Demitrack, Putnam, Brewerton, Brant, & Gold, 1990;Pettinati, Horne, & Staats, 1985;Torem, 1990). Dissociation involves a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness.…”

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Dissociation, childhood trauma, and the response to fluoxetine in bulimic patients

McCarthy

Goff

Baer

et al. 1994

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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Histories of childhood trauma have been reported previously in bulimic subjects but no study to date has assessed how these experiences may affect response to fluoxetine. Thirty outpatient subjects in a placebo‐controlled trial of 60 mg of fluoxetine for the treatment of bulimia nervosa completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale and a self‐report instrument assessing trauma. Response to treatment was measured with the Hamilton Depression Scale‐17 (HAMD‐17), the CGI, the PGI, and the change in number of binges per day. Subjects taking fluoxetine with histories of physical abuse showed a significantly greater drop in HAMD‐17 scores than those without such histories. No relationship between a reported history of abuse and the response of binging to fluoxetine was found. A history of abuse does not appear to predict the response of hinging to fluoxetine but may predict a greater response of nonspecific symptoms like depression. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Hypnotizability in Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia

Cited by 84 publications

References 16 publications

Dissociative and Hypnotic Experiences in Eating Disorder Patients: An Exploratory Study

Dissociative and Hypnotic Experiences in Eating Disorder Patients: An Exploratory Study

Dissociative States Presenting as an Eating Disorder

Dissociation, childhood trauma, and the response to fluoxetine in bulimic patients

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