Analgesia ipnotica: neurobiologia ed applicazione clinico-sperimentale

Journal title IPNOSI
Author/s Antonella Ciaramella
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/1
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 5-20 File size 99 KB
DOI 10.3280/IPN2014-001001
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After an exam of the neurobiological mechanisms of hypnotic analgesia, the author deepens indications and hypnotic techniques used in the treatment of chronic pain. A major emphasis is given to the relationship between hypnotic susceptibility and efficacy of hypnotic analgesia and, in this context, the author explains some results of neurobiological and clinical literature. Besides, the author shows some results of its clinical experience through the application of a protocol called: The "Structured Phenomenological Hypnotic Protocol" (SPHP).

Dopo una disamina dei meccanismi neurobiologici dell’analgesia ipnotica, in questo lavoro l’autore si sofferma sulle indicazioni e sulle tecniche ipnotiche utilizzate nella terapia del dolore. Un’importante rilevanza viene data alla relazione tra suscettibilità ipnotica ed efficacia dell’analgesia ipnotica; l’autore infatti ne fa una disamina riportando alcuni risultati della letteratura neurobiologica, clinica e descrivendo alcuni risultati della propria esperienza clinico-sperimentale mediante l’applicazione di un protocollo chiamato: The "Structured Phenomenological Hypnotic Protocol" (SPHP).

Keywords: Hypnosis, pain, hypnotic susceptibility, neurobiology, hypnosis phenomenology, analgesia

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Antonella Ciaramella, Analgesia ipnotica: neurobiologia ed applicazione clinico-sperimentale in "IPNOSI" 1/2014, pp 5-20, DOI: 10.3280/IPN2014-001001