EL COMPORTAMIENTO HIPNÓTICO COMO UN EPISODIO SUSTITUTIVO REFERENCIAL

The analysis of the hypnotic behavior has involved perspectives focused on the biological or social factors. The psychological aspects have been left aside and put under a logic of lineal causality. This has obstructed an adequate understanding about the hypnotic phenomena and has perpetuated some confusion. From an interbehavioral perspective (Ribes & Lopez, 1985) the present work analyses the problem of the psychological events called “hypnosis” in the ordinary language. It proposes that, hypnosis can be conceived as events of Paradoxical Stable Affectation (or PSA events). In these events, language promotes the occurrence of a functional unbinding from the present situational properties, that is why the hypnotic behavior could be classified in the Referential Substitutive Function. The phenomenon known as “hypnotic anesthesia/analgesia” has been chosen as case situation to show the articulation of the functional relations that participate in the facilitation of the hypnotic behavior.