title: The use of hypnosis in establishing a holding environment to facilitate affect tolerance and integration in impulsive patients.
abstract: This paper is concerned with the use of hypnosis in establishing a facilitating and holding environment in the treatment of impulsive behavior across a range of diagnoses. The reason for this cross-diagnostic viewpoint is to underscore the common sources of such action and the needs to be met in its treatment. Illustrations from work with two patients are presented: One was a hypomanic and bulimic woman who was successful in her profession; the other was an underemployed and sometimes unemployed schizophrenic man. Both were inclined to self-defeating impulsive action-bulimia in the woman, assault in the man.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000628:therapy; D006990:Hypnosis; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy