What is hypnosis? Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy. There are many definitions of the hypnosis. According to some of them hypnosis is the natural state of the body, one of the many levels of the consciousness when person is functioning in the automatic mode (Hadley & Staudacher, 1996; Hadley J. & C., 1996), guided induction of various states of consciousness (Halsband, 2011) or natural psycho physiological reaction caused by the specific psychological interactions between the hypnotiser and person being hypnotised (Gapik, 1984).
Page 2 Stewart Huffey Upon asking a group of people be it friends, family or people of the street the question what is hypnosis? Will lead to an array of different answers. The history of hypnosis itself stems back over many years the origins of which can go back as far as Egyptian times. A painting showing a person asleep with others standing over them making suggestive movements leads historians to think that some forms of induced trance state was at work. Although the interpretation of wall paintings is difficult to conclude accurate evidence from.
Toni Harrison NEWCA1A 12 Module One Page 1 “What is Hypnosis?” Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in hypnotherapy. Introduction Over the years there have been many assumptions made regarding hypnosis. Beginning with shamanism, which is something I will discuss in the first part of this assignment, leading to modern hypnosis in the life and work of Franz Anton Mesmer. For some people these assumptions remain uncorrected, for others however, they gain a much deeper insight into the fascinating world of hypnosis. This includes the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and also the role of relaxation and its importance within hypnotherapy.
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).
Psychodynamic Theories Introduction goes here. Key Figures Sigmund Freud The father of psychoanalysis, Freud based his theories on the unconscious mind, infantile sexuality and the Oedipal complex, and repression. In addition, he proposed a three-part psychological structure in the Id, considered the pleasure principle, Ego, also known as the reality principle, and Superego, which is the internalized moral principle. According to Thornton (2010), “Freud’s innovative treatment of human actions, dreams, and indeed of cultural artifacts as invariably possessing implicit symbolic significance has proven to be extraordinarily fruitful, and has had massive implications for a wide variety of fields including psychology, anthropology, semiotics, and artistic creativity and appreciation” (para 2). Alfred Adler In 1911, Alfred Adler formed the school of Individual Psychology as a reaction to the hostile response he received from members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.
Relaxation techniques have been recorded being used since 2000 B.C. Aristotle is known to have identified the process of eye movement in REM sleep whilst studying resting and sleeping processes. Other combined physical/psychological therapies use similar methods including meditation, Yoga and massage. Relaxation is the most important technique for the process of hypnosis, “Wolpe wrote ‘Patients who cannot relax will not make progress by this method’” when he described hypnotic trance “’Those who cannot or will not be hypnotised but who can relax will make progress although apparently more slowly then when hypnosis is used’” (Heap & Dryden, 1991). Only when a person is fully relaxed can they be induced into a hypnotic state, and it is this hypnotic state we need to reach the unconscious mind, although the benefit of relaxation alone can bring relief to sufferers of stress conditions.
This name however is not ideal as it makes people think that they will be asleep whilst they are hypnotised. He tried to re name hypnosis to monoeidism, but he failed as the name had already stuck. The next advances in the history of hypnosis came from Liebeault, a French doctor. He provided treatments for the poor, for free, and cured a patient with sciatica, who was a patient of another doctor, Bernheim, who had been treating the patient for six months with traditional medical practice with no improvement. Upon meeting his rival Bernheim found Liebeault to be a genius and decided to work with him.
“What is Hypnosis?” Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discuss the role of relaxation in hypnotherapy. "He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks within, awakens" ~ Carl Jung In this essay I shall try to describe what Hypnosis is, it’s physical and psychological aspects, and try to consider the role that relaxation plays in hypnotherapy. But perhaps before we look directly at what hypnosis is it might be worth considering what it is not and at the same time dispel some of the myths and fears that have grown up around it over time. In this way we may begin to look beyond the pendulum swinging pocket watch of popular fiction and towards the powerful and useful tool for positive change that many people
Hypnotherapy is a recognised form of treatment and has been accepted by the British Medical Association and the American Medical Association. Psychiatric nurses deliver hypnosis to relieve patients of their anxiety, uncontrollable behaviour, or the need to increase their self-esteem or confidence. Hypnotherapy treatments vary from alleviating pain, dealing with inflammations, stress-related and psychological issues such as addictions, obesity, eating disorders, phobias, depression and insomnia. Hypnosis in varying forms can be dated back centuries but its first notable usage was in the late 1700’s with Franz Anton Mesmer, the grandfather of hypnosis. Mesmer recognised the ancient
The Psychoanalysis Perspective Abstract. Sigmund Freud, the Father of Personality Psychology, highlights many theories in his writings. Most noted in this paper was the Psychoanalytic Perspective, which gives an in-depth view of determinism, the importance of conflict, early experience, infantile sexuality, and most illustrious the importance of unconscious motivation. This theory assumed that there exist three levels of consciousness in which the human mind functions. People did not come to accept his theory at first, but after much testing it was proven mostly valid and reliable.