Dissociative experiences scale.

Many symptoms suffered by dissociative disorder patients are unresponsive or incompletely responsive to medications. This poses a unique challenge to the staff of specialized dissociative disorder units, in which many such patients who require hospital care suffer serious distress that may not respond predictably to the pharmacological interventions that are available. However, the majority of their symptoms are dissociative in nature, and dissociative disorder patients generally are quite hypnotizable. Anticipating the need for nonpsychopharmacological interventions that we could use in the absence of the treating psychiatrist, we taught the unit's nursing and social work staff to rely on the inherent trance-proneness of these patients to utilize hypnotic techniques without the formal induction of hypnosis. Their implementation facilitated crisis resolution, led to a greater sense of safety on the part of the patients, enhanced the staff's sense of mastery, and minimized the need for emergency sedation and restraints.

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PubMed1992

The interface between multiple personality, spirit mediumship, and hypnosis.

In this paper I draw parallels between multiple personality, spirit mediumship, and hypnosis from historical, anthropological, and clinical perspectives. I emphasize Milton H. Erickson's view of multiple personalities as not necessarily pathological but as potential resources. He employed hypnosis to gain access to personalities and to transform their behavior from involuntary to voluntary actions. I discuss similarities between this view and the use of spirits as a resource with mediums. Natural trance therapies in other cultures offer a new perspective for viewing the normalcy or pathology of "other selves."

Dissociative Disorders↗

PubMed1992

The use of hypnosis in the treatment of PTSD.

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