Hypnosis Case Studies On Nail Biting
Nail biting has been regarded as a common habit that tends to begin in the childhood years. For some this is just a childhood phase, but for many it can continue into adult life. Most nail biters are extremely embarrassed or ashamed of this habit. This particular habit usually becomes worse through anxiety or stress. Nail biting is an “unconscious” behavior and most individuals will bite their nails at any time, whether they are in the public eye or at home.
Hypnotherapy is a treatment plan that can be used for this unconscious habit as it helps the patient to cope with situations that they feel are stressful and assists them in becoming more relaxed. In addition, hypnotherapy can eradicate and break the
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The stories that she found actually assisted in making her problems worse. She states that she had been biting her nails her entire life and it even got to the stage that she would wake up in the morning and find she had been biting her nails throughout the night. After a lot of conversations and soul searching she decided to visit a hypnotherapist.
During her first session, she admitted that she felt embarrassed having to explain her issue to the hypnotherapist, but he helped her to relax and feel comfortable about discussing her problems. The first session involved the therapist asking her what she expected from the treatment and she replied that she wanted to be more normal. He went onto explain to her that many people around the world suffer from the same problems she is facing. No person is perfect and everybody has problems it comes down to how to deal with these
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By using a process known as “Age regression”, the therapist was able to return the patient to a time in her life when the problem started. She was then provided with a method to address this problem and then find a way to overcome her habit. Six months on and she wakes up each morning feeling excited about her day ahead. She no longer has to worry about things and she feels calm and happy. She has never bitten her nails again.
Working With Children That Have A Proclivity To Nail Biting
Over three hundred patients took part in a study covering thirty months at a Pediatric Pulmonary Center. In order to take part in this study, the patient had reported psychological triggers like feelings of uneasiness related to the medications they were taking or nervousness related to the upcoming procedures.
Two takeaways from this study was the ability to leverage the existing imaginations of the children so that they can easily accept the hypnotic suggestions that were given. The other point was the parent’s role in involving their children with hypnotherapy as a process to overcome their anxiety along with biting their nails. The children that did not have a direct follow up involvement with a parent did not benefit as greatly as their
The program also provided the opportunity for her family to address their issues in order to become the loving unit that she always desired. Despite the opportunity, her family was not healed from the years of turmoil and conflict, for their problems were too immense to be handled during the one-hour therapy sessions. Ultimately, Chhaya realized that she could not be the rescuer that would mend her family’s broken relationships. Although she later relapsed and slipped into depression, she once again got the help that she needed to develop the security in herself and happiness that she longed for and
As I mentioned at the beginning of this paper, the professional relationship of Susan and I started somewhat slow. There were numerous attempts to make the first initial contact and to complete the necessary paperwork. Clinically, I had a million thoughts running through my head. Was Susan avoiding me. Was she safe? Does she have cell phone minutes available to return my call.? Is her depression overwhelming her? After our first meeting in the community I quickly assessed that Susan was used avoiding behaviors.
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For centuries hypnosis has been around, however many people till this day do not know much about it. Most still believe hypnotist carry around big clocks using them to swing back and forth in someone’s face, controlling their every action. As the one being hypnotized remains unaware as they proceed to act like a chicken with their head cut off. But for the most part, the truth is most hypnotists can be your average doctor, therapist, dentist, psychiatrists, and friend. It doesn’t take much to hypnosis someone as long as a deep state of relaxation is created, where the unconscious mind is “listening” and the conscious mind is “resting”. The meaning of “conscious and unconscious are really just shorthand terms to describe the general characteristics of the human mind. The “conscious mind” is the bit where we tend to “live” – the bit you might think as “you”. If there’s a little voice reading these words out loud in your head, that’s the conscious mind talking. The unconscious mind is everything else” ("About hypnosis"). In fact some doctors don’t use the word trance when describing the relaxed state because the person is very aware in their so-called unconscious mind. They feel that the word trance implies a different mind level or mental lapse and sends out the wrong idea to people who don’t know the subject.
Some moms help their young children give up nail-biting by placing something unpleasant on the nai...
Kirsch, Irving, Antonio Capafons, Etzel Cardeña-Buelna, Salvador Amigó. Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1999.
A technique made up of a series of instructions and suggestions that place a person in a trancelike state of mind, possessing similarities to being asleep. Only, in this trance a person is able to hear and respond to questions or suggestions, these states are otherwise known as hypnosis. However, when it is combined with hypnotic suggestion and therapeutic understanding, it is then referred to as hypnotherapy. This alternative treatment therapy has proven to be beneficial in many circumstances. A few of these being, pain management, anxiety, the cessation of smoking, weight control and many other physiological and psychological circumstances. Over time hypnotherapy has proven to be helpful in treating a wide range of health conditions, not only medical patients but as well as nonmedical ones.
Vanderlinden, J. and W. Vandereycken. "The (Limited) Possibilities of Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Obesity."
Hypnosis is another very common form of mind and body practices. Hypnosis focuses on the brain. It is used to mainly help addicts and people with mental health problems. This technique is used to help someone to begin using their unconscious mind. They are asked to relax at the beginning of the session, they are then drawn away from their surroundings to begin to focus on one object (Billitterl 57). Many people believe that during hypnosis the person undergoing it is asleep, but that is not the true. Actually the person is very much awake, and is very aware of what is going on in the setting around them. If the patient is uncomfortable with what the hypnotist is asking they will simply not reply (58).
The concept of hypnosis produces an enigmatic figure rhythmical swaying a pocket watch to control a subject. Ominous hypnotists and surreal perceptions of hypnotism are fanciful ideas constructed by television, movies, and comics. Hypnotism has become widely popular in mainstream culture because of absurd renditions that bear no resemblance to actual hypnotism; in consequence the therapeutic effects of hypnotism are questioned by a great deal of psychologists and doctors. Hypnotherapy, hypnosis as a medical intervention, should be an acceptable and extensively used treatment of subjective symptoms because it is proven to be effective and does not encompass severe side effects.
Hypnosis has been used for a wide range of problems from, opting to remove some symptoms of certain mental diseases, reducing stress and psychological traumas, and treating phobias, to aiming to cause weight loss and cure one from illness and diseases (Keller, 2008). Although hypnosis in general, is considered to be safe and totally harmless when controlled by a physician, the present era has attached danger to it, in that it creates delusions through other people’s lives. According to MacKenzie (2011), “Hypnosis has been perceived as clouding people’s imaginations while they undergo relaxation, both internally and externally. While under hypnosis we experience a heightened sense of imagination and are open to suggestions and changes.” Coker (2010) found Pseudoscience to encourage people to believe anything they want. “It supplies specious "arguments" for fooling yourself into thinking that any and all beliefs are equally valid...
2. Erickson, M. H., & Rossi, E. L. (1979). Hypnotherapy: An exploratory casebook. New York: Irvington.
Nina has also blacked out on several occasions and shows signs of mutilation to her body without her knowledge: bruises, cuts, and scratches. According to her mother, Nina used to self-mutilate when she was a child, but it has recently started happening again. Nina sees images of herself, but a different and “evil” version of herself. This could be the awakening of an alter personality or sub-personality. Nina’s stress level with the new performance in her ballet comapny may have played a part in this change. Dissociative identity disorder is said...
Hinkle, Janice, and Kerry Cheever. “Management of Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Disease." Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13th Ed. Philadelphia: Lisa McAllister, 2013. 619-630. Print.
Let’s say you have some sort of problem or bad habit (as do most people I know) and you really want to overcome it. Maybe you are addicted to smoking, but no matter what you do, you just can’t resist the urge to go crawling back to your cigarettes and take another smoke. Finally, you see an ad in the paper for a hypnotist that says he (or she, of course) can help break addictions with a little hypnotic suggestion, and you decide that you might as well give it a try. You walk into small, quiet room and lay down on a comfortable sofa across from the hypnotist. He begins to calmly tell you to relax all parts of your body, and tells you to shut your eyes. “You are getting very sleepy.”