Best of both worlds: How to integrate hypnosis and biofeedback with empathy and hypnotic assessment procedures

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis,  Jul 2005  by Wickramsekera, Ian II

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Wickramasekera II, I. E. (2005). Best of both worlds: How to integrate hypnosis and biofeedback with empathy and hypnotic assessment procedures. Biofeedback, 33 (1), 31-34. In this article the author reviews the importance of measuring hypnotic ability in mind/body medicine. The author discusses how hypnotic assessment can provide critical information about a client's level of hypnotic ability as well as their unique phenomenological experience of hypnosis.

The author then describes how this information is also of value when determining the ideal integration of hypnosis and biofeedback to use for a particular person. The author also discusses how differences in empathie disposition appear to underlie why low hypnotizable persons prefer using biofeedback at the onset of psychotherapy, as well as why high hypnotizable persons are recommended to begin with hypnosis. Low hypnotizable persons appear to enjoy the biomedical validation of applied psychophysiology, whereas high hypnotizable persons can utilize their empathic gifts in hypnosis. Address for reprints: Ian E. Wickramasekera II, Psy.D., Adler School of Professional Psychology, 65 East Wacker Place, Suite 2100, Chicago, IL60601, web: www.adler.edu, E-mail: rigdzen@hotmail.com.

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