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  • Psychology
  • Hypnosis Research

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  • Historically, high hypnotizability was linked to psychopathology like hysteria.
  • Current understanding considers hypnotizability a normal trait, unrelated to psychopathology.
  • Most psychiatric patients exhibit low to medium hypnotizability.

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  • To analyze the relationship between hypnotizability and dissociation.
  • To investigate the role of high hypnotizability in severe dissociative disorders.
  • To explore implications for psychiatric nosology and hypnosis.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and analysis.
  • Examination of psychiatric diagnoses and hypnotizability.
  • Focus on dissociative disorders and their link to hypnosis.

Main Results:

  • High hypnotizability is a likely diathesis for severe dissociative disorders.
  • Dissociative disorders, excluding depersonalization disorder, show high hypnotizability.
  • This finding challenges current psychiatric classifications.

Conclusions:

  • High hypnotizability is a necessary factor for severe dissociative disorders.
  • Dissociative disorders may represent a form of hypnotic pathology.
  • Findings impact psychiatric nosology, hypnosis research, and understanding of dissociative disorders.