Trance-related pseudocyesis in a male

1 October 1988

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Vol. 36 (4) , 256-261
https://doi.org/10.1080/00207148808410516

Abstract

Pseudocyesis has been linked in previous literature to trance phenomena. The present paper presents a case in which pseudocyesis was accidentally induced by hypnotic suggestion, continued by an autohypnotic process, and reversed by informal suggestion. This case has important implications for the role autohypnosis may play in maintaining the phenomenon and for the usefulness of hypnotic techniques in reversing the symptoms.

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