TITLE:
“Twisties” and Olympic Games: A Role for Hypnosis in Top-Level Athletes Who Have Lost the Sense of the Self in Aerial Space?
AUTHORS:
Edoardo Casiglia, Valérie Tikhonoff
KEYWORDS:
Hypnosis, Olympic Games, Top-Level Athletics, Hypnosis, Depersonalization, Derealisation, Therapy
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.12 No.9,
September
14,
2021
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.