A study of alterations in body sensations during hypnoanalysis

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Abstract
Alterations in body sensations are experienced by subjects in hypnosis and it is possible to evaluate and to understand many of them when the subjects are patients in hypnoanalysis. A collection of such phenomena which appeared in a patient in treatment is presented now. The total number exceeds that reported previously and supplies longitudinal as well as cross-sectional perspectives because the data were gathered over a period of several months. Comparisons are made of this material with findings in other patients. The large variety of sensory phenomena are representations of conscious and unconscious experiences, many of which can be understood in relation to the individual's conflicts or his total personality functioning at the time the phenomena appeared. Additional areas for investigation include evaluation of hypnotic sensory phenomena in relation to a variety of symptoms in the form of somatic complaints by patients seeking psychotherapy, the study of sensory experiences in therapists in connection with their roles in the special settings of hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis and in treatment without hypnosis, the study of body sensations experienced by “normal” individuals and comparisons of them with hypnotic sensory phenomena, and the evaluation of sensory phenomena as reflections of total psychosomatic functioning with its ideational and affective ingredients.

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