The development of the therapeutic alliance during the first five hypnotherapy sessions.

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Date publication

août 2024

Journal

Complementary therapies in clinical practice

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Dr LIGNIER Baptiste

Tous les auteurs :
Bioy A, Lignier B, Servillat T

Lien Pubmed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39241342

Résumé

The therapeutic alliance is a principal element that allows the dynamics and effects of psychotherapy to be analyzed. In the past half-century, many studies have explored various psychotherapeutic approaches, including psychoanalytic, cognitive-behavioral and systemic psychotherapy, but hypnotherapy has not been addressed. This article presents the first analysis using current methods of verifying and understanding the dynamics of change in hypnotherapy, regarding to the therapeutic alliance. Luborsky et al.'s (1996) revised Helping Alliance Questionnaire (HAq-II) was administered to 59 patients in treatment with psychologists and psychiatrists using Ericksonian hypnosis. Our results suggest that the dynamics of the alliance in the first sessions of hypnotherapy involve factors related more to the therapist's adjustment to the patient than to the progress the patient makes in these initial sessions.