My Understanding Of Hypnotherapy

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My Understanding of the Term Hypnotherapy Most of us experience hypnosis every day. Driving on “auto pilot”, daydreaming, staring at the tv or an activity such as fishing. Any activity which involves fixing the eyes and focusing attention can bring about trance. Hypnotherapy is a process whereby a therapist guides their client into a deep, hypnotic, trance-like state using one of the hypnotic induction techniques and gently implants suggestions into their subconscious mind. The client is aware of what is being said. This in turn can generate a change in the clients’ habits, behaviour, negative feelings and reduce stress. It is an effective, safe practice. You cannot be made to do something that goes against your values and principals.…show more content…
Braid stated that Mesmer's animal magnetism trance state occurred, because the participant expected it to happen. Braid devised a hypnosis induction of his own using verbal and visual techniques that worked successfully by tiring parts of the brain, therefore causing trance. He used the term “Hypnosis and Hypnotism” to describe his work, creating the words from the Greek word Hypnos (the Greek God of Sleep). He then realised that the reference to sleep was not the correct description of the hypnotic state and tried to change it to “monoideism”. However, the word hypnosis stuck and has been used ever since. As Braid did not found a school, his influence waned after his death and the centre of Hypnosis moved to France in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, his books Rationale of Nervous Sleep Considered in Relation to Animal Magnetism, 1843 and The Power of the Mind over Body, 1846 continued to be influential. (http://www.durbinhypnosis.com/braid.htm 05/0314…show more content…
He discovered curing a client by positive suggestions such as “day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” Coue discovered that hypnosis will only be successful if the client believes that it will work. Those that are sceptical will not benefit. Sigmund Freud was impressed enough with hypnosis to adopt it into his treatment of neurotic disorders. It enabled the clients to remember events that had been forgotten and buried. However, he was developing his own psychoanalysis system and coupled with the difficulty he experienced hypnotising some patients, he abandoned hypnosis and concentrated on free association. Milton Erickson (5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) was an American psychiatrist. He had colour blindness and could only see the colour purple. Erickson also suffered polio in his teens and nearly died. While confined to bed, he began observing the various people around him and discovered that “what people said and what they did were often very different” (BSAP notes Module 1 2014). He was dyslexic and tone deaf, but had great determination and that helped him to secure degrees in psychology and
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