There is a growing body of evidence that virtual reality (VR) is an effective tool in psychotherapy. Hypnosis is a very effective intervention in pain management, and it can also be applied in virtual reality. Presence is a multi-component construct, related to the efficacy of virtual reality interventions, and, for example, it is believed to be a crucial factor in the virtual reality hypnosis for pain management. The objective of this study is to

Experimental groups (with low and high hypnotisability) were selected with the help of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C [19] from a sample of volunteer students initially selected from the results obtained in the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Form A [17]. The participants in each hypnotisability group were randomly distributed, after evaluating the effort at baseline and in hypnosis, in the “More Aware” condition

This paper presents a psychotherapeutic intervention of a patient age 19, who was brought into therapy by his mother for excessive gambling. During therapy it was found that gambling was the consumption of ethnobotanical comorbidity. The therapeutic intervention involved a motivational interview combined with cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnosis.

Despite the controversies concerning the nature of hypnosis and intrinsic research, hypnosis proves to be a generous research method. It has been used as methodology throughout time, both in cognitive psychology and in reproducing some clinical symptoms in laboratory conditions. As a methodological instrument, combined with modern neuroimagistic techniques, hypnosis has the potential, through experimental psychopathology, to help choose the way in