Applications of hypnotherapy in child psychiatry

Vandvik I H. Applications of hypnotherapy in child psychiatry.Hypnotherapy is underutilized in child psychiatry because of ignorance and misconceptions about hypnosis and the multifactorial nature of most child psychiatric disorders. Hypnotherapy can provide child therapists with a combination of egoenhancing, symptom oriented, and insight oriented methods. Benefits and problems encountered when using hypnotherapy in the context of psychotherapy are presented. It is important that therapists use hypnotherapy as a tool within a framework familiar to themselves. Problems have included the failure to recognize conscious and unconscious resistance for symptom removal and family bases for behavioral symptoms.Child psychiatry, hypnosis, therapy children.

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