Abstract

DA SILVA NEUBERN, Maurício. Hypnosis and physical senses in psychotherapy: reconstructing subject's experiences. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2012, vol.18, n.1, pp. 119-133. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2012v18n1p119.

Hypnosis can be an important tool for reconstructing the subjective experiences of subjects. To understand this, we begin with a debate between authors of phenomenology and existentialism who believe that hypnosis, with its directives and the authority claimed by its therapists, is not a legitimate method for reconstructing experiences because the client does not participate as a subject in the process of therapy. Next, a clinical case study is presented that strongly emphasizes the use of the physical senses during hypnosis sessions and illustrates how a client in deep mourning was able to accomplish several reconstructions of her experience related to her body, space, time, and the world. The conclusion is that physical senses, as experienced processes, can be highly significant in psychotherapy, and that hypnosis allows subjects to actively participate in reconstructing their experiences

Keywords : Hypnosis; Existential phenomenology; Physical senses; Subjective experiences.

        · abstract in Portuguese | Spanish     · text in Portuguese     · Portuguese ( pdf )