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Trance Capacity and the Genesis of Phobic Behavior
Fred H. Frankel, M B Ch B, D P M
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1974;31(2):261-263.
Abstract
Several authors have reported increased effectiveness in the therapy of phobic behavior when hypnosis is combined with the treatment, or when it is used as the vehicle for treatments such as suggestion, desensitization, or insight-oriented psychotherapy.
The knowledge that marked hypnotizability can contribute to the production of unusual clinical syndromes encourages the investigation into how smaller degrees of hypnotic capacity could be responsible for the production of other symptoms, such as phobic behavior. In traditional psychodynamic terms, it is suggested that the trance or hypnotic experience is invoked spontaneously as a defense mechanism against intolerable anxiety, and the accompanying social situation, or important aspects of it are then perceived in a distorted fashion. In behaviorist terms, this is then learned and reinforced by repeated perceptually distorted experiences.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and the Psychiatric Service, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 28, 1974.
Read before the Sixth International Congress for Hypnosis, Uppsala, Sweden, July 9, 1973.
Reprint requests to Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (Dr. Frankel).
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