FND Hypnosis Dr Jason Price Presentation

Notes

A nice summary of hypnotherapy.

• Hypnosis aims to inculcate a controlled, volitional dissociative, yet focussed state (trance).
• Trance states are everyday occurrences (e.g. day-dreaming.)
• The hypnotherapist is like a tour guide. It’s free will, and you can choose to go along the suggestions.
• Use for rapid relaxation, positive distraction (e.g. pain), awareness of emotions, develop resource states. Ideo-motor suggestions, cognitive suggestions, recreating dissociation and teaching control.

Says FND is an uncontrolled dissociation; hypnosis is a controlled dissociation.

References other studies:

• Jamieson et al (2017) – hypnosis induces and removes facial amnesia (like FND might)
• Moene et al (2013) – 10 weekly hour long sessions. 30 minutes self-hypnosis each day. Direct suggestions for symptom alleviation; emotional expression. Significant improvements at 6 month follow up.

Moene et al. (2008) and Deeley (2016)

• Motor FND – direct attention on affected limb; encourage awareness. Direct attention on non-affected limb; encourage awareness; transfer feelings. Imagine normal functioning. Relaxation. Increased function with a goal (moving a ball). Tremors – relax, let is shake, shake it off, in-congruent imagery (heavy limbs)
• Dissociative NES – recreating or recalling; desensitising trauma images; altering perception of prodromal symptoms (early warning signs).

“People to Google” – Devin Terhune, David Oakley, Peter Halligan, Quinton Deeley, John Kihlstrom, Peter Naish, Irving Kirsch, Steven Jay Lynn, Richard J Brown, Michael Heap.