“a Personalised Induction Will Always Be More Effective”. Discuss.

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Word Count: 1942 “A personalised induction will always be more effective”. Discuss. Course Code: CARDI1S14 Penny Edwards Leah St Clair This essay will be looking at the different methods and techniques used to personalise patient’s inductions to suit their needs, addressing the individual situation to discover the best form of treatment within hypnosis that will have the desired effect. We will be looking at the permissive technique through the work of Milton Erickson as well as the authoritarian method through the work of Clark Hull and briefly looking at Sigmund Freud at the other end of the spectrum. The use of identifying a patient’s modality will also be discussed as another technique to personalise an induction. This essay will show an argument for and against a personalised induction and evidence to support it. The essay will then conclude that it will be more effective, however, whether this will always be the case can be debated depending upon the desired outcome of the therapy. As human beings we have very similar attributes, we’re also very different in many ways, including our cultural backgrounds. For a start, this means that we will have been brought up in different environments, providing us with different outlooks on life as well as our values and perspectives. All of this would have a knock-on effect to what we like and dislike in our everyday lives. This being said, when using hypnosis to treat a patient in order to achieve the best chance of success hypnotherapists need to do their utmost to assist their patients to realise the most beneficial state possible, and work with the subconscious mind to measure a patient’s suggestibility. There are several kinds of induction, varying in approach,, length of time and tone. They can be authoritative or permissive. Although inductions may be quite different from one to another they must
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