can hypnosis cure alcoholism

Alcohol addiction
"Anguish is the vertigo of freedom".
S. Kierkegaard
Alcohol addiction, what is it; - Dr. Cristina Pucci Psychotherapist, Faenza
What's this

Alcohol plays an action similar to drugs on the central nervous system, since it alters the mental activity of those who use it.
Like drugs, it can therefore create dependence and affect physical, mental, behavioral and relational health.
Despite this, excessive drinking is considered a risky behavior in our culture that can lead to the development of other physical or mental illness, rather than to a disease per se.

This is because we live in a society where alcohol consumption is legal and socially accepted, indeed 'drinking' plays a socializing role in any ceremony.
The effects on mental activity are of two types: in small doses, alcohol produces an euphoric state and helps to disinhibit in social relations; at high doses, it has a hypnotic, calming and in some cases depressive effect.

Therefore it happens that the individual with low self-esteem and with the need to be more open and uninhibited in relationships, drinks to obtain such effect. They are the very young to start in this way, they drink 'to give each other a tone', to meet people, often putting their safety seriously at risk, because their perception of risk decreases exponentially to the degree of disinhibition reached. Lacking in our society a real ritual that sanctions the transition from childhood to adulthood, boys tend to use the first drunkenness to finally feel great. Adolescence is the transition phase in which the subject is faced with evolutionary tasks in terms of defining the self and acquiring autonomy and, precisely for this reason, represents the moment in which the desire to risk manifests itself with greater force. These risk requirements can be satisfied by experimentation and the phenomenon remain isolated, or become a lifestyle, which may more or less cease at some point in life, with the acquisition of new responsibilities and roles, for example . within the working world.

The adolescent or adult subject who can not stop, goes to the phenomenon of tolerance and the need to drink more and more to achieve the same effects: the addiction is triggered when the perception of their inner emptiness is so distressing that it is filled with something that help not to hear it. The effect of the alcohol that is being sought is no longer euphoria, but inhibition of an emotional state, of apparent calm.


How to cure

Alcohol addiction, what is it; - Dr. Cristina Pucci Psychotherapist, Faenza Alcohol addiction must be treated in the same way as all addictions: in some cases substitution drugs that remove the desire to drink and which must be prescribed by the competent doctor may be useful, but to obtain detoxification effects lasting over time, the best treatment is always represented by the path of psychotherapy, which acts deeply on the structural and psychological causes that led to the beginning of risky behavior.

The psychotherapist helps to stay in the void, supports the patient in feeling the unpleasant emotions also providing tools to face the consequences of this 'too much to perceive', accompanies him in the path of growth, definition of himself and therefore out of addiction.