A felnőttkori hipnotikus fogékonyság fejlődési és szocializációs meghatározói

The hypnotherapeutic relationship between client and therapist bear many resemblances to the relationship between child and parent. According to the social-psychobiological theory of hypnosis, adult hypnotic susceptibility is influenced by neural development and socialization. Despite this fact, so far just a few studies investigated the developmental antecedents of adult hypnotic susceptibility. Similarly, the socialisation effects were scarcely studied; the few studies in this area rather aimed to map childhood memories in a qualitative manner. In this paper we summarise the results of these studies, then we present the investigations carried out by our research team since 2008 in order to unfold the associations between recalled parental rearing style and adult hypnotic response. The main conclusion of our cross-sectional studies that employed standardised quantitative measures is that cold-punishing parental style predicts negative emotions and fear of the hypnotist's negative appraisal in laboratory hypnosis sessions. This association is partially mediated by alexithymic affective processing. These results inform the planning of hypnotherapy and reinforce the therapeutic alliance.