1. Panic Attack Treatment and Hypnosis

2. Definition of Panic Attack
The most terrifying symptom in psychiatry
It can be seen in panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, etc.

3. Mechanism of the Panic Attack
More hypnotizable than the average
Similar to hypnosis
Hypnosis and self-hypnosis can be used to make the patient to be aware of his or her dissociative capacity and become familiar with the underlying capacity and ability to control it

4. Treatment of Panic Attack
Using psychohypnotherapy, a psychodynamic enlightenment of the patient underlying pathology can occur
Pathology can be considered at four levels which are behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and existential

5. Treatment of Panic Attack cont.
Only the attentive subjects can go into a satisfying level of hypnosis
During panic attacks there are many ways which turn the patient`s s attention from bodily symptoms to imaginations

6. Treatment of Panic Attack cont.
Focusing on these imaginations satisfactorily, the process that leads to panic attack can be interrupted.

7. Using Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack
Hypnosis increases the effect of the mind on the body by changing oneʼs sensations
Suggestions of relaxation under hypnotic trans alleviate panic attack symptoms
During hypnosis, (s)he will be very focused, attentive, and responsive to imaginations

8. Using Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack
Using Anxiety treatment in hypnosis can be effective for panic attack patients

9. Using Anxiety Treatment in Hypnosis in Treatment of Panic Attack
Patients with high-trait anxiety show stronger respiratory responsivity to imagined risk of suffocation, which constitutes a vulnerability factor for the development of panic disorder

10. Anxiety Treatment
Anxiety treatment can be improved by hypnosis, and can be considered in four aforementioned levels