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AUTHOR
Ana Alarcón Aguilar
Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes towards hypnosis.
This paper examines how attitudes of initially reluctant subjects towards hypnosis are influenced by three different approaches to introducing the topic. Participants (N = 90) were assigned to one of three experimental conditions: minimal information, cognitive-behavioural information and trance information. All three groups showed positive changes in attitudes toward hypnosis. Contrary to our expectations, positive attitudinal changes were not diminished for subjects exposed to trance information. Groups given trance and cognitive-behavioural explanations demonstrated significantly greater collaboration compared to the control group. No differences in hypnotic suggestibility were obtained.…
Papeles del psicólogo
Antonio Capafons Bonet (Antonio.Capafons@uv.es) El Modelo de Valencia de Hipnosis Despierta presenta varias características innovadoras que permiten un uso eficiente e integrador de la hipnosis: la forma de presentarla al cliente evita un lenguaje tranceático o palabras “patologiformes”, mostrándola como una estrategia general de afrontamiento y de auto-control, que usa las propiedades auto-regulatorias del cerebro. El paciente hipnotizado está con los ojos abiertos y conversando fluidamente. Esta perspectiva es más permisiva con el cliente y le responsabiliza más sobre su papel en el tratamiento que las perspectivas clásicas de hipnosis despierta. Además, trata de integrar distintas formas…