CLINICAL HYPNOSIS FOR RAPID RECOVERY FROM DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER

Numerous anecdotal reports and textbooks from distinguished mental hea lth practitioners have accorded to clinical hypnosis a prominent role in the successful psychotherapeutic treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). This ideographic inquiry of one such treatment offers empirical support for the instrumental effects of clinical hypnosis w ith a highly hypnotizable patient who alleged intermittent sexual abus e during the 2-5 age range. Multiple pre-and post-intervention measure s, plus treatment trajectory monitoring and explication, demonstrate h ow hypnosis methodology contributed to a rapid recovery from DID. Futu re research is called for to further elucidate the therapeutic benefit s of clinical hypnosis for DID patients having different levels of hyp notizability and treatment responsiveness.