Author(s)

Edoardo Casiglia^1,2, Valérie Tikhonoff²

¹Studium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
²Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

“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.

Hypnosis, Olympic Games, Top-Level Athletics, Hypnosis, Depersonalization, Derealisation, Therapy

Casiglia, E. and Tikhonoff, V. (2021) “Twisties” and Olympic Games: A Role for Hypnosis in Top-Level Athletes Who Have Lost the Sense of the Self in Aerial Space?. Psychology, 12, 1379-1383. doi: 10.4236/psych.2021.129086.