Chronic psychosomatic pain alleviated by brief therapy
Abstract
A case is presented of a male patient with intractable pain that responded very rapidly to the therapeutic release of a suppressed negative emotion (anger) and a re‐vivification of a previously experienced successful use of acupuncture for pain relief. The case demonstrates the mind–body link found in somatization or psychosomatic disorders and shows how this was used in its resolution. The interventions involved seeding, anchoring, utilization and re‐vivification, silent abreaction and imagery. During hypnosis the patient no longer complained of his pain, a state which continued after hypnosis had been reversed. Clinical outcome in routine evaluation (CORE) forms were used both before and two weeks after the therapeutic session and showed a dramatic change to normalization, which was maintained at a four‐month follow‐up. The treatment, which consisted of 15 minutes in surgery and a therapy session of one hour, demonstrates that sometimes very brief therapy can be very productive. Copyright © 2002 British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis
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The concept of a 'preferred future' when living with pain has more recently been given focus by pain researchers, as have techniques such as focusing on successes during pain consultations.
“The concept of a ‘preferred future’ when living with pain has also more recently been given focus by pain researchers,18–20 as have techniques such as focusing on successes during pain consultations.21”
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- Authors
- Williamson, A.
- Corresponding author
- Williamson, Ann
- ORCID
- Williamson, Ann
- Venue
- Contemporary Hypnosis
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-09
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 118-124
- ISSN
- 0960-5290 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-0711
- OpenAlex
- W2068612867
- Cited by
- 6
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Contemporary Hypnosis (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- psychosomatic pain, refractory pain, hypnosis, brief psychotherapy, somatization, anger suppression, acupuncture, abreaction, imagery, anchoring
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