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Hypnotic imagery and scripts for developing the `infant/child' through separation
experiences with a sense of mastery rather than abandonment have been developed
and are currently utilized. Finally, a generic technique of creating `healing scripts'
to redo or resolve old trauma has been developed and is utilized.
In summary, we now have an understanding of how to reach and help the
severely disturbed patient, and we currently have a powerful arsenal of techniques
to utilize within the scope of hypnotherapy.
NOTES
1. In later work Lavoie et al. 1976, 1978) noted this circular reasoning and concluded that
Copeland and Kitching's work actually suggested that hypnotizability might be related
to prognosis since among patients ®rst diagnosed as psychotics, those who were easily
hypnotizable were more likely to recover while those who were not hypnotizable had
worse outcomes. Thus, Lavoie et al. agreed with the idea that hypnotizability may be
related to prognosis, but did not agree that a diagnosis of psychosis should be revised
when hypnotizability was present.
2. In this 1982 article, Scagnelli-Jobsis also presented a theoretical explanation/justi®cation
of how hypnosis could be utilized successfully by psychotic patients with presumably
weak egos. This explanation was based on a model of hypnosis as a function of adaptive
regression and built on the earlier works of Schilder and Kauders Schilder & Kauders,
1926; Gill & Brenman, 1959; Lavoie et al., 1976; Fromm & Shor, 1979). In later years
Murray-Jobsis expanded on the 1982 article and developed a theoretical model of
hypnosis as adaptive regression and transference. This model provides a framework for
understanding the clinically demonstrated capacity of personality disorder and psychotic
patients to work with hypnosis Murray-Jobsis, 1988, 1991a).
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