This paper proposes an alternative to understand the relationship between hypnosis and chronic pain based on the notion of social practice. Beginning with a critique of contemporary research, this study investigates three important sense zones of this hypnosis application: its relational dimension, the fabrication of the hypnotic phenomenon, and telling stories. Similar zones refer to the subjectivity present in such social processes, since it implies the material aspect of relationships, the construction of roles, the diversity of trance expressions, and the multiplicity of suggestions in stories. The conclusion emphasized the importance of clinical and qualitative understanding of the relationships between hypnosis and chronic pain in supporting research with information pertinent to this social practice, so that researchers do not mischaracterize it with methodologies disconnected from its characteristics.
Hypnosis; chronic pain; social practice