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Hypnotizability, pain threshold, and dissociative experiences

M Y Ağargün1, I Tekeoğlu, H Kara

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, University School of Medicine, Van, Turkey.

Biological Psychiatry
|July 1, 1998
PubMed
Summary

Highly hypnotizable individuals exhibit lower pain thresholds and increased dissociative experiences. This suggests a link between pain perception, dissociation, and hypnotic suggestibility.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Pain Research

Background:

  • Investigating the potential link between pain threshold, hypnotizability, and dissociative experiences.
  • Understanding the interplay of subjective pain perception and altered states of consciousness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between pain threshold, hypnotizability, and dissociative experiences in healthy subjects.
  • Clarifying the relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and somatosensory perception.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a manual algometer to measure pain thresholds in 41 healthy participants.
  • Administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale and assessed hypnotizability using the Hypnotic Induction Profile (eye roll sign).

Main Results:

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  • Subjects with higher hypnotizability demonstrated significantly lower pain thresholds.
  • Highly hypnotizable individuals reported a greater frequency of dissociative experiences.

Conclusions:

  • Confirmed an association between pain threshold, hypnotizability, and dissociative experiences.
  • Suggests an integral link between dissociative symptoms, somatic experiences, and hypnotic suggestibility.