HYPNOSIS, ICONICITY AND CHRONIC PAIN: CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Authors

  • Maurício Neubern

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n3p1000-1014

Keywords:

Hypnosis, Iconicity, Chronical pain, Complexity. Semiotics

Abstract

This work seeks to offer, by means of the semiotic concept of iconicity, an
explanatory proposition in order to understand the relationship between
hypnosis and chronic pain. It considers hypnosis as a set of processes involving
communication and trance experience. Employing a brief clinical excerpt, it
emphasizes iconicity in hypnotic communication, as a process based mainly
on the consideration of the other, the clinic of showing and the experience
of the present. On the other hand, regarding the trance experience, the
work stresses the iconicity present in the relations with the self-image and
the corporal scheme of the subject, consisting of complex semiotic systems
in which the chronic pains are set. The conclusion highlights the proximity between iconicity and alterity, especially with respect to the role of the
protagonists of the therapeutic relationship in hypnosis.

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Published

2021-10-22

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