NOVEMBER 2001, VOLUME 29, NUMBER 2, Abstract 2
Hypnosis and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Monica Moore,Medical Practitioner
This study describes the application of hypnosis in the treatment of a woman with acute post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from the client’s exposure to an armed hold-up at work. She was self-referred, and through the use of hypnosis achieved her aims of abolishing the distressing flashbacks, feelings on not being safe, and sleep disturbance which she had been experiencing. She was also able to re-frame her experience from a negative to a more positive one, and to resume work.