Journal title IPNOSI
Author/s Fabio Carnevale, Sandro Montanari
Publishing Year 2022 Issue 2021/2
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 26-40 File size 216 KB
DOI 10.3280/IPN2021-002002
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It is currently believed that addiction is a complex behavioral disorder that is influenced by biological, psychological, sociological factors, and that, as such, must be seen from a biopsychosocial perspective. The authors believe that there may be two main “magnets” that first stimulate and then stabilize addiction, fa-voring its relapse: the attempt to carry out a self-therapy of one’s affective dysregulation (alexithymia) and the activation of the memory of pleasure. After presenting a brief review on the use of hypnosis in the treatment of addictive dis-orders, the authors expose their own technique, Reverse Systematic Desensitiza-tion, illustrating it through a clinical case. The effectiveness of the technique in re-ducing the thought of the substance, therefore craving and relapse, is associated with an increased rate of maintained successful treatment.
Keywords: hypnosis, systemic-relational approach, hypnotic techniques, isomor-phism, therapeutic relationship, metaphor.
Fabio Carnevale, Sandro Montanari, L’uomo che non c’era in "IPNOSI" 2/2021, pp 26-40, DOI: 10.3280/IPN2021-002002