get your facts right before challenging my posts. stupid stupid man
Hi. I'm unsure why you have to resort to name calling. My facts are just fine. Trauma is not created equal. When I talk about trauma, it is about the worst and most pervasive types. Actual trauma. Not, my partner cheated on me and now I claim to have PTSD.
Additionally, I'm not here trying to push something (hynotec -- hmmm -- fan of hypnosis are we?)
I totally understand and recognise that hypnosis is an adjunct that can assist other psychodynamic models in treating trauma of various types. That does not mean it is used in childhood trauma or other severe, pervasive trauma instances. Hypnosis is often referred to treating trauma patients compatible in using standard counselling CBT principles. Treating symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, sleep issues and such. Treating symptoms is vastly different from treating trauma itself. Again, hypnosis is not a psychodynamic treatment model, it is an adjunct that can be used with trauma therapies only. Hypnosis does not treat the trauma, the psychodynamic model used does that.
There is only one study of any scientific notoriety about the effectiveness of hypnosis with CBT, which was compared to CBT only and a placebo group. The hypnosis had an initial larger impact on reexperiencing symptoms, though at the three year mark, both CBT and hypnosis + CBT results were identical. Both beat the placebo group. An older study is dismissed due to its lacking validity and contraindications / flaws exposed within the study.
To my knowledge, not much has changed since Foe wrote the ISTSS guidelines for hypnosis in treating PTSD symptoms:
Potential complications of using hypnosis for PTSD include exaggerated confidence in the veracity of memories produced during hypnosis and the possible creation of pseudomemories, or “false memories,” especially among highly suggestible individuals given misleading information. A number of studies have shown that hypnosis facilitates improved recall of both true and confabulated material, with no change in overall accuracy.
https://www.istss.org/ISTSS_Main/media/Documents/ISTSS_g14.pdf
Not an ideal solution for childhood trauma, highly dissociative individuals where you just don't know what you're going to get, and so forth.
Psychodynamic models let the clients memory recover memories itself, then attempts to piece together fragmented memories, and even then source other persons if needed for recall if possible.
The evidence is pretty clear. Just to hammer it home, the latest Handbook of PTSD: Science and Practice, has nothing allocated about hypnotherapy for PTSD treatment. It has all the other Tier 1 treatments, and many naturopathic ones, and only mentions the above discussed hypnotherapy study once from memory (having read the entire book) when comparing CBT efficacy for treating some PTSD symptoms, citing CBT models provide the most effective treatment outcomes for PTSD sufferers.
I think my evidence is super good. Again, I'm not saying hypnosis is just total shit. I'm saying it has limited scope for symptoms and is not recommended for the treatment of trauma (my definition of trauma). Adjunct, yes. Trauma treatment, NO.
A very simple analogy would be:
"hypnosis is like the MDMA pill taken prior to trauma therapy commencing, it does not treat the trauma, it simply helps relax the client to make them more susceptible to the trauma therapy treatment."
Plenty of folk running around claiming ecstasy, MDMA and its derivatives treat PTSD and trauma. Ah... NOPE. No it does not.
