FROM QUANTUM PHYSICS TO CLINICAL HYPNOSIS: THE HEALING FIELD A Quantum Mind Perspective

A substantial body of evidence does not support the mind-body dualistic model on both epistemological and clinical grounds. Therefore, the biomedical approach and the current taxonomy seem unable to provide an adequate, descriptive, and explanatory model of somatic and psychic domains (such, as for instance, pain).In order to overcome the old and inappropriate dichotomy between Mind and Body, a novel, heuristic model based upon Chaotic Complex Systems Theory and Quantum Mechanics is proposed (De Benedittis, 2015; 2008). The model postulates that Mind/Body interface and, possibly Consciousness, represent a Chaotic Complex System,ruled by the probability principle, as shown in subatomic physics and quantum mechanics, rather than by the deterministic principle of causality (i.e.,somatogenic vs. psychogenic). Accordingly, instead of categories such as structures and functions , events are the basic components of this complex system. Events can be wavefunctions, whose morphofunctional configuration can change with time and according to probability differentials. Quantum Mechanics abolishes differences between structures and functions, by conceptualizing the Universe as a Chaotic Complex Network of Mental and Physical functions.From various experiments, it has been well established that neuronal activity and EEG recordings show many patterns of chaotic behavior. New trends in psychology and cognitive neuroscience suggest that applications of chaotic patterns seem to be particularly important for research of some fundamental problems regarding mind-brain relationship and the process of trance.This novel paradigm postulates that Mind/Body interface may be conceptualized as a continuum spectrum. At one extremity of the spectrum we might assume the pure Somatogenic Event (i.e., Exoception), while at the other extremity there is the pure Psychogenic or Mental Event(i.e., Endoception). Any particular event at a given time is the expression of quantum probability differential, with most of the events being under the gaussian curve. After the Tao of Physics (Capra, 1975), the new Tao of Hypnosis opens exciting perspectives in exploring a new healing field and its effects on both somatic and mental disorders.