The Efficacy Of Hypnotherapy In The Treatment Of Patients With Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is a kind of common anxiety disorder, with higher incidence, bigger psychological negative influence, higher suicide risk, and higher misdiagnosis rate etc, many researchers are seeking faster, better and safer therapeutic methods. The side effects of medication is bigger. Psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy can alleviate temporarily only, its treatment cycle is long, and it is easy to relapse. So using hypnotherapy to treat panic disorder is becoming a hot research.Objective:To study the curative effect of hypnosis therapy in the treatment of panic disorder, to analyze the deep reason of curative effect, and to explore the application experience of hypnosis using in the treatment of panic disorder.Methods:Used case study, psychometrics, observation and interview to study10patients with panic disorder, with hypnotherapy in the main treatment process. After the treatment using psychometric, assessment on the spot, assessment of the people around, self-assessment, objective reality of social adaptation, therapist’s assessment, and assessment followed the treatment to evaluate the effect.Results:After an average of6times of hypnosis therapy, the symptoms of10panic disorder patients relieved obviously.(1) The change of scores of SAS showed that the patient’s anxiety scores decreased obviously, from moderate and severe anxiety to normal state. The change of scores of SCL-90showed that the total scores and anxiety factor scores reduced in a different degree. The rates of decreases in SCL-90is over25%,which showed that it was effective.(2) At the end of each hypnosis therapy, all the patients had different degree of relaxation experience, anxious state relieved. The feedback of patients showed that the symptoms had improved significantly, and they can control the symptoms at the same time. The comprehensive assessment from the therapists showed that treatment effect of four patients was good, their symptoms relieved, but still needed to be self adjusted; treatment effect of6patients was better, their symptoms eliminated thoroughly, social function recovered. The review showed that treatment effect had been maintained.(3) Hypnotherapy could exert its utility due to various reasons, including: hypnosis could play its role through the unconscious, it could reduce the impedance to a variable extent, it was beneficial to build up good relationship with consulting, people’s cognitive and thinking mode would change in hypnosis, it could improve the curative effect of hypnosis combined with other therapies, especially cognitive behavioral therapy, the implications in the process of hypnosis was profund and persistent, the role of hypnosis itself could do the deed, hypnosis could take effect in view of the symptoms of panic disorder, self-directed training after the hypnotherapy could also had effect.(4) Through the prosess of hypnotherapy, the research formed the application experience in treating the panic disorder patients mainly caused by the death of relatives, the main process was treated their separation anxiety and fear of death.The important methods were as followings. The hypnotist guided the patients to the scene of their relatives’ death once again, let them feel the situation at that time and replaced it with other scenario, to relieve the discomfort and anxiety. Or guided the patients with relatives "farewell" again, to make up for their regret. The hypnotist guided patients feel flowers bloom and fade and finally returned to the soil, led patients to receive the death of relatives.Sometimes hypnotist let patients express inner feelings, gave patients the necessary energy supplement to promote personal growth, and strengthen the patient’s self training guidance.Conclusion:(1) The effects of hypnotherapy in treating panic disorder was obvious. It can reduce the level of anxiety and the number of panic attacks, and the effect was persistent.(2) Hypnotherapy could exert its utility due to various reasons, the main is through the unconscious to reduce impedance and change the cognitive and thinking mode to relieve symptoms. At the same time, it also need to combine with cognitive behavior therapy and self-directed training in order to improve curative effect.(3) By sorting the prosess of hypnotherapy, the research formed the application experience in treating panic disorder mainly caused by the death of relatives.