Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders
Aim: Interpersonal sensitivity and mistrust are the main characteristics of cluster A personality disorders (CAPD) which might be due to the high accessibility to negative suggestions from environments. Yet the exact associations between hypnotic suggestibility and their personality disorder functio...
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| author | Bingren Zhang Bing Pan Jueying Chen Junjie Wang Zhenyu Zhu Timo Juhani Lajunen Wei Wang |
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| description | Aim: Interpersonal sensitivity and mistrust are the main characteristics of cluster A personality disorders (CAPD) which might be due to the high accessibility to negative suggestions from environments. Yet the exact associations between hypnotic suggestibility and their personality disorder functioning styles remain unclear. Methods: We invited 36 patients with CAPD and 115 healthy volunteers to undergo the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C (SHSS:C) and Parker Personality Measure (PERM). Results: Compared to controls; patients scored higher on PERM paranoid; schizoid; schizotypal; borderline; avoidant; and dependent styles; on the SHSS:C total and “challenge suggestions”, and the passing rates of “hand lowering”, “arm rigidity”, “dream”, and “arm immobilization”. In patients, “dream” negatively predicted the schizoid; “hallucinated voice” negatively the schizotypal; “mosquito hallucination” positively the histrionic and dependent; and “arm immobilization” negatively the avoidant style. Conclusions: Our results suggested that the insusceptibility to perceptual suggestions from others and the high control over body contribute to the paranoid attitude and interpersonal avoidance in CAPD. These findings help to understand the cause of interpersonal problems in these patients and suggest the trial of hypnotherapy for them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-05d67704acbb4f509ff716b6f5b556592023-11-16T19:27:20ZengMDPI AGBrain Sciences2076-34252023-01-0113218210.3390/brainsci13020182Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality DisordersBingren Zhang0Bing Pan1Jueying Chen2Junjie Wang3Zhenyu Zhu4Timo Juhani Lajunen5Wei Wang6School of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, ChinaDepartment of Psychiatry, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, ChinaSchool of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, ChinaSchool of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, ChinaSchool of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, NorwayDepartment of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7034 Trondheim, NorwayAim: Interpersonal sensitivity and mistrust are the main characteristics of cluster A personality disorders (CAPD) which might be due to the high accessibility to negative suggestions from environments. Yet the exact associations between hypnotic suggestibility and their personality disorder functioning styles remain unclear. Methods: We invited 36 patients with CAPD and 115 healthy volunteers to undergo the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C (SHSS:C) and Parker Personality Measure (PERM). Results: Compared to controls; patients scored higher on PERM paranoid; schizoid; schizotypal; borderline; avoidant; and dependent styles; on the SHSS:C total and “challenge suggestions”, and the passing rates of “hand lowering”, “arm rigidity”, “dream”, and “arm immobilization”. In patients, “dream” negatively predicted the schizoid; “hallucinated voice” negatively the schizotypal; “mosquito hallucination” positively the histrionic and dependent; and “arm immobilization” negatively the avoidant style. Conclusions: Our results suggested that the insusceptibility to perceptual suggestions from others and the high control over body contribute to the paranoid attitude and interpersonal avoidance in CAPD. These findings help to understand the cause of interpersonal problems in these patients and suggest the trial of hypnotherapy for them.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2/182cluster A personality disordershypnotizabilityparanoidschizoidschizotypal |
| spellingShingle | Bingren Zhang Bing Pan Jueying Chen Junjie Wang Zhenyu Zhu Timo Juhani Lajunen Wei Wang Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders Brain Sciences cluster A personality disorders hypnotizability paranoid schizoid schizotypal |
| title | Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders |
| title_full | Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders |
| title_fullStr | Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders |
| title_short | Hypnotizability and Disordered Personality Styles in Cluster A Personality Disorders |
| title_sort | hypnotizability and disordered personality styles in cluster a personality disorders |
| topic | cluster A personality disorders hypnotizability paranoid schizoid schizotypal |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/2/182 |
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