The Myth of Hypnosis:<i>The Need for Remythification</i>

Meyerson, Joseph

doi:10.1080/00207144.2014.901090

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“…Hypnosis has thus been shown to reduce the cost of medical treatment during invasive radiologic procedures by Lang et al [36]. Some patients are still deterred by myths and misinformation about hypnosis and hypnotical trance, believing that they might lose control or experience an unwilling influence on their behavior [37]. However, we also face a growing number of patients showing a critical attitude toward drug therapy during information talks and therefore willing to use alternative treatments, which they believe to be less harmful.…”

Section: Effect Of Hypnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Audio-guided self-hypnosis for reduction of claustrophobia during MR imaging: results of an observational 2-group study

Napp

Diekhoff

Stoiber³

et al. 2021

Eur Radiol

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Objectives To evaluate the influence of audio-guided self-hypnosis on claustrophobia in a high-risk cohort undergoing magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Methods In this prospective observational 2-group study, 55 patients (69% female, mean age 53.6 ± 13.9) used self-hypnosis directly before imaging. Claustrophobia included premature termination, sedation, and coping actions. The claustrophobia questionnaire (CLQ) was completed before self-hypnosis and after MR imaging. Results were compared to a control cohort of 89 patients examined on the same open MR scanner using logistic regression for multivariate analysis. Furthermore, patients were asked about their preferences for future imaging. Results There was significantly fewer claustrophobia in the self-hypnosis group (16%; 9/55), compared with the control group (43%; 38/89; odds ratio .14; p = .001). Self-hypnosis patients also needed less sedation (2% vs 16%; 1/55 vs 14/89; odds ratio .1; p = .008) and non-sedation coping actions (13% vs 28%; 7/55 vs 25/89; odds ratio .3; p = .02). Self-hypnosis did not influence the CLQ results measured before and after MR imaging (p = .79). Self-hypnosis reduced the frequency of claustrophobia in the subgroup of patients above an established CLQ cut-off of .33 from 47% (37/78) to 18% (9/49; p = .002). In the subgroup below the CLQ cut-off of 0.33, there were no significant differences (0% vs 9%, 0/6 vs 1/11; p = 1.0). Most patients (67%; 35/52) preferred self-hypnosis for future MR examinations. Conclusions Self-hypnosis reduced claustrophobia in high-risk patients undergoing imaging in an open MR scanner and might reduce the need for sedation and non-sedation coping actions. Key Points • Forty percent of the patients at high risk for claustrophobia may also experience a claustrophobic event in an open MR scanner. • Self-hypnosis while listening to an audio in the waiting room before the examination may reduce claustrophobic events in over 50% of patients with high risk for claustrophobia. • Self-hypnosis may also reduce the need for sedation and other time-consuming non-sedation coping actions and is preferred by high-risk patients for future examinations.

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Section: Effect Of Hypnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Audio-guided self-hypnosis for reduction of claustrophobia during MR imaging: results of an observational 2-group study

Napp

Diekhoff

Stoiber³

et al. 2021

Eur Radiol

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“…When seeking to obtain informed consent from sociological research participants for a project using hypnosis, it is important to ensure that these participants fully understand the principle of using hypnosis in autoethnographic studies, and know what to expect during an hypnotic session. This includes addressing the many and common reservations, misconceptions and misinformation that individuals can have about hypnosis (Capafons et al , 2008; Meyerson, 2014; Entwistle, 2017). Participants need to feel reassured that at all times they will remain safe and in control, and that even when very deeply into hypnosis their unconscious mind will remain around to monitor what is happening in the room during the hypnosis session.…”

Section: Confidentiality and The Obtaining Of Informed Consent In Hypnosismentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypnosis as performance autoethnography in qualitative sociological research

Entwistle

2020

JOE

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce to sociologists the concept of dissociative hypnosis and to demonstrate the potential that this discipline has for obtaining or deriving biographical narratives in ethnographic and autoethnographic studies.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents brief comparative histories of the development of hypnosis and of performance autoethnography to highlight the degree of consonance between these apparently, disparate modalities, in their struggle for acceptance and respectability. The intensely introspective, emotional and experiential nature of hypnosis and self-hypnosis narratives is then compared with the personal descriptions and applications of the autoethnographic process as depicted in the sociological literature, to illustrate the parallels between the two modalities. The paper concludes with a review of the potential problems and limitations inherent in using hypnosis as a memory recall modality in sociological research studies.FindingsThis paper argues that the exploratory and revelatory nature of information accrual during dissociative altered-state hypnosis closely resembles that during performance autoethnography, and that hypnosis could therefore be usefully employed as an additional and novel (ethno-) autobiographical tool in sociological and ethnographic research.Originality/valuePerformative autoethnography has now become a firmly established route to obtaining a valid and intensely personal autobiographical history of individuals or groups of individuals. However this is the first publication to propose hypnosis as an alternative approach to deriving ethnographic and autoethnographic biographical narratives.

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“…30 These beliefs are based on a presupposition that the hypnotic process and influence have some concrete and material presence besides verbal and interpersonal interaction and communication. [31][32][33] These beliefs are fueled by the history of hypnosis, onstage hypnosis performances, TV shows, and YouTube demonstrations of hypnosis and, in my view, contribute significantly to the withdrawal from online hetero-hypnosis. 34,35 For effective online H-psychotherapy, the therapists' and patients' misconceptions have to be exposed and changed.…”

Section: Specifics Of Online H-psychotherapytechniques and Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 95%