Effects of hand catalepsy on subjective trance perception and relative parasympathetic tone in healthy volunteers during pleasant hypnotic session: a randomized controlled study
Authors' conclusion
Parasympathetic comfort increased during the hypnotic trance with no difference between groups. However, adding hand catalepsy to a pleasant hypnotic trance did not appear to increase feelings of absorption or dissociation but created time distortion on the longer side that could be useful in some clinical settings.
Study context
- Population
- Healthy volunteers attending a medical hypnosis congress in France89 analysed
- Participants
- 90 volunteers
- Comparison
- Pleasant hypnotic trance with vs without hand catalepsy
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Relative parasympathetic tone (ANI), heart rate, respiratory rate
- Increase in Analgesia/Nociception Index (ANI) and decrease in heart rate and respiratory rate over time, with no difference with or without hand catalepsy
Further findings
Actual duration of hypnotic session
Estimated duration of hypnotic session · ± SD 4 min
mean overestimation 3 · P < 0.001
Subjective absorption and dissociation (0-10 scale) · end of hypnotic trance
- No statistically significant difference between groups
Actual duration of hypnotic session
- Similar between groups
Original publication
Effects of hand catalepsy on subjective trance perception and relative parasympathetic tone in healthy volunteers during pleasant hypnotic session: a randomized controlled study. J Clin Monit Comput. Published 29 May 2024. doi:10.
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