Flavio Di Leone

Is a Medical Doctor, resident and assistant in the School of Psychiatry of the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry of the Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, in Rome.

Since 2005 he has participated in a research project directed by Prof. Camillo Loriedo, dedicated to “Ultra-Short Hypnotic Therapy for Conversion Disorder” with over 200 cases treated with Ericksonian brief term hypnotherapy. At present he is consultant for the hypnotic therapy for Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES). In 2013,he promoted and initiated the research project “PNES and Functional Connectivity”.

The denied emotions. Sensory memories in the hypnotherapy of functional somatic disorders

Sensory memory of relation is the primitive, stable and embodied component of memory on which the development of attachment and emotional regulation relies on. According to clinic and experimental evidences of hypnotic regression not as a temporal, but as a perceptive regression, this work wants to illustrate an interpersonal theory of functional somatic disorders based on the centrality of the "somatic residue of interaction" in the genesis as well as the treatment of this condition.

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Tuesday, August 8th 2017

Chronic pain relief

At the EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF HYPNOSIS in Manchester in August, A Vanhaudenhuyse from Belgium will show in a study of 415 chronic pain patients that self-hypnosis/self-care can help patients develop active coping strategies, allowing them to reduce pai Full Story...

Friday, July 28th 2017

Self-hypnosis – a cost effective intervention

Professor Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, head of the Pain Clinic at Liege University Hospital in Belgium will demonstrate at the EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF HYPNOSIS in Manchester in August, that learning self-hypnosis and self-care improves not only pain but Full Story...