Effect of hypnotic regression on anxiety patients: a preliminary research

Pages: 1003-1006
Shraddha Tripathi (Amity Institute of Behavioural and Allied Sciences, Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh)

Anxiety disorders are a group of mental disorders characterized by feelings of anxiety and fear, where anxiety is a worry about future events and fear is a reaction to current events. These feelings may cause physical symptoms, such as a racing heart and shakiness. Hypnotic regression is a technique that uses hypnosis to recover what practitioners believe are memories of previous lives or incarnations, though others regard them as fantasies or delusions or a type of confabulation. Present paper is just a prelude work of a doctoral research. The sample size for this paper is ten anxiety patients. The data has been collected through Sinha Comprehensive Anxiety Test (SCAT). Approximate three to four session of hypnotic regression given to the patients and after the statistical analysis had been done some positive improvement find out in level of Anxiety. After finding the preliminary results the Researcher thinks that Hypnotic Regression has the capability to mend some psychological problem expressly anxiety and concluded that there is great need of researches in this field.