This session brings together experts from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, neuropsychiatry and neurology. They share a common interest in the effects of suggestion (placebo / nocebo) and the potential of hypnosis both as a research tool and therapeutic intervention.
Devin Terhune will discuss the neuropsychiatric profiles of individuals who are highly responsive to verbal suggestion and the neurocognitive bases of how verbal suggestions can modulate awareness and perception.
Quinton Deeley will discuss the use of suggestions in hypnosis and fMRI to create experimental models of alterations in control, ownership and awareness of mental contents and behaviour. This provides insights into first rank symptoms of schizophrenia, dissociation and cultural phenomena such as revelatory, mediumistic and possession states.
Wendy Phillips will discuss practical clinical applications of hypnosis in neurology, with a focus on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). She will outline what FND is, how it is recognised clinically and how it is phenomenologically similar to hypnosis, with reference to predictive coding models/active inference theories.
In this session you will:
- Learn how verbal suggestions can modulate awareness and perception.
- Discover how suggestions in hypnosis can create experimental models of alterations in control, ownership, and awareness of mental contents and behaviour providing insights into first rank symptoms of schizophrenia, dissociation and cultural phenomena.
- Discover practical clinical applications of hypnosis in neurology and how functional neurological disorder is phenomenologically similar to hypnosis.
Chair: Anna Crozier, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Colchester, United Kingdom
Devin Terhune, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom
Quinton Deeley, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, United Kingdom
Wendy Phillips, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom
