[Hypno-analysis: On the integration of hypnotic elements in individual uncovering psychotherapy in patients with anxiety disorder].
Following a short history of the development of the therapeutic techniques of psychoanalysis as derived from the basic rules of hypnosis, the apparent contradictions between the two approaches are called into question, with particular reference to the importance and efficacy of suggestion and suggestibility in both methods. How the integration of hypnotic interventions can both intensify and at the same time shorten the process of analytic therapy is demonstrated by two vignettes. The range of indications for the use of hypnosis as a complementary measure is currently restricted to the analysis of resistance and of the making conscious of past traumatic experiences that are involved in the psychogenesis of anxiety disorders. Particular importance is attached to the careful establishment of the indication and then psychoanalytic working-through of the accompanying transference-countertransference-dynamics following the completion of the hypno-analytic phase and in the course of the ongoing uncovering therapeutic process.
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D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy