Post-hypnotic safety suggestion improves stress coping with long-lasting effects.

ABSTRACT: Effective coping with acute stress is important to promote mental health and to build stress resilience. Interventions improving stress coping usually require long training periods. In this study, we present a hypnosis-based intervention that produces long-term effects after a single hypnosis session. In that session, we established a post-hypnotic safety suggestion that participants can activate afterwards with a cue, the Jena Safety Anchor. We tested 60 participants in our study who all received the hypnosis session and a stress task. The safety group used the Jena Safety Anchor during acute stress (Trier Social Stress Test, TSST). The control group used a neutral anchor. We measured subjective stress responses via self-reports and physiological stress responses via saliva and blood samp

SUBMITTER: Schmidt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861489 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature