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“Twisties” and Olympic Games: A Role for Hypnosis in Top-Level Athletes Who Have Lost the Sense of the Self in Aerial Space?
Studium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- 1 Studium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
- 2 Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Psychology·Volume 12 (2021)·Pages 1379–1383·Published 10 September 2021·DOI10.4236/psych.2021.129086
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Abstract
“Twisties”, rarely affecting top-level predisposed young people engaged in athletic evolution and recently observed during the 2020 Olympic Games , sometimes have a psychodynamic origin (dissociation accompanied by depersonalization and derealisation) and could be treated with adequate hypnotic suggestions. This could shorten the recovery of these athletes through the awareness of a repressed trauma and/or a direct intervention on body awareness.
KeywordsHypnosisOlympic GamesTop-Level AthleticsHypnosisDepersonalizationDerealisationTherapy
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