Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis is increasingly recognized as an exceptionally powerful vehicle to facilitate the efficacy of virtually any therapeutic approach. Not a therapy in-and-of itself, hypnosis is an focus state of relaxation, in which virtually any mode of therapeutic intervention to promote healing & growth can be enhanced. The hypnotic state makes a wide variety of interventions possible that are simply unimaginable in “ordinary” talk-therapy!
Modern clinical hypnosis can often be effectively utilized in an almost unimaginably wide range of therapeutic conditions and the facilitation of the growth orientated approaches of Positive Psychology. The relief & resolution of the psychosomatic aspects of what are normally considered to be “medical” conditions, can be addressed with hypnosis!
Contrary to popular conception the clinician is only the facilitator to the process. The client entering a state of relaxation is totally dependent upon their own desire and willingness. Hypnosis is not being asleep or in a coma, if they chose to the client will remember everything what is said during the trance. The client is also able to exit the trance at will and without the hypnotist if needed. Thus at all times the client is in total control.
Which is exactly how it should be!!
Hypnosis is probably the oldest method of healing in the world
We can trace the importance of belief in healing right back to primitive cultures. Since early history priests and shamans have attempted to bring about healing by inducing an altered state of consciousness.
When man was searching for an explanation for the inconsistencies of life he believed disease to be a Divine manifestation. The Ancient Egyptians had their Temples of Sleep, and the Greeks their Shrines of Healing, where patients were given curative suggestion whilst in an induced sleep. Hippocrates (430 BC) was aware of the importance of harmony between mind and body, and described the mind as the ‘seat of emotion’.
Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud developed the application of hypnosis beyond the mere suggesting away of symptoms, and changed the approach to the elimination of their apparent cause. Breuer found that in hypnosis patients would often recall past events and in talking about them would experience an emotional outpouring, subsequently losing their symptoms. This he called his talking cure, (we would now refer to this emotional state as an abreaction).
Freud was also looking at addressing the dynamics and history of illness, with hypnosis. Due to rampant tooth decay which caused bad breath and a slight lisp Freud preferred to set some distance from the patient and not to talk. This adaptive approach was later to give rise to psychoanalysis.
Hypnosis is currently seen as a tool rather than as a cure in itself. It is used in simple relaxation techniques for nervous dental and medical patients; as an adjunct to chemical sedation and anesthesia; as relaxation therapy in the handling of stress and related disorders; in obstetrics and antenatal care; in the management of intractable pain, cancer and terminal illness; as an adjunct to psychotherapy, and in the management of a wide range of phobic, anxiety and other medical and psychological problems.
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