Algunas personas creen que el control del dolor mediante hypnosis depende del grado de sugestionabilidad de los sujetos es decir que cuanto mas sugentionable es una persona, más fácil es ayudarle a controlar el dolor, pero los estudios realizados en la British Society of Experimental & Clinical Hypnosis publicados en el 2007 por John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd., han demostrado que la hipnotizabilidad no facilita la reducción del dolor mientras que la hipnosis SI puede lograrlo
Y los studios descriptos por British Society of Experimental & Clinical Hypnosis Contemp. Hypnosis 24: 143–153 (2007)
Published by John Wiley & Sons tambien han demostrado que cuando existe un fuerte dolor, la atención oscila entre la tarea que está ejecutando la persona y el dolor que siente en su cuerpo, pero cuando una persona es hipnotizada, puede concentrar su atención de tal forma en las sensaciones placenteras que la hipnosis produce, que logra excluir el dolor
¿Cómo incide en la capacidad para controlar el dolor, el hecho de que la persona crea que la hipnosis le va a ayudar a controlar el dolor?
Definitivamente se ha podido comprobar que consiguen mejores resultados quienes comienzan su tratamiento creyendo que la hipnosis puede ayudarles
¿Y que pasa si la persona cree que puede ser ayudada mediante hipnosis pero en realidad nunca logran hipnotizarla adecuadamente?
Por increíble que pueda pareer es más importante que la persona crea que puede ser hipnotizada que sea realmente hipnotizada, ya que si cree que puede ser ayudada mejorará aún cuando no puedan hipnotizarla
Con mis mejores deseos
Dr. Roberto A. Bonomi
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