Panic Attack Treatment and Hypnosis Definition of Panic

Panic Attack Treatment and Hypnosis

Definition of Panic Attack • The most terrifying symptom in psychiatry • It can be seen in panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc.

Mechanism of the Panic Attack • More hypnotizable than the average • Similar to hypnosis • Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can be used to make the patient to be aware of his or her dissociative capacity and become familiar with the underlying capacity and ability to control it

Treatment of Panic Attack • Using psychohypnotherapy, a psychodynamic enlightenment of the patient underlying pathology can occur • Pathology can be considered at four levels which are behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and existential

Treatment of Panic Attack cont. • Only the attentive subjects can go into a satisfying level of hypnosis • During panic attacks there are many ways which turn the patient`s s attention from bodily symptoms to imaginations

Treatment of Panic Attack cont. • Focusing on these imaginations satisfactorily, the process that leads to panic attack can be interrupted.

Using Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack • Hypnosis increases the effect of the mind on the body by changing oneʼs sensations • Suggestions of relaxation under hypnotic trans alleviate panic attack symptoms • During hypnosis, (s)he will be very focused, attentive, and responsive to imaginations

Using Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack • Using Anxiety treatment in hypnosis can be effective for panic attack patients

Using Anxiety Treatment in Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack • Patients with high-trait anxiety show stronger respiratory responsivity to imagined risk of suffocation, which constitutes a vulnerability factor for the development of panic disorder

Anxiety Treatment • Anxiety treatment can be improved by hypnosis, and can be considered in four aforementioned levels