As can be inferred from some of the reviews, hypnotherapy is a reliable means of improving the mental state of a person in need. However, there are other opinions on this matter. Someone says that such treatment does not make any sense and effect. Is it really? Let's try to understand this topic in detail.
General information
Having such diverse and ambiguous reviews, hypnotherapy is a kind of psychotherapeutic practice, the effectiveness of which is due to the influence on the person at the time when her consciousness is changed. For the layman, this state is better known as a hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is a temporary state of a person's mind, in which the volume is narrowed, there is a focus on individual elements of suggestion that have some target content. The hypnotist is responsible for suggestion. Techniques of this kind are driven by changing the functionality of self-awareness and the ability to control oneself.
Hypnotherapy includes several suggestive techniques,analytical approaches. These are useful when a person is in a hypnotic sleep, but are not used or effective when he is fully conscious.
Two directions
All hypnosis techniques are divided into two types. The first is used by doctors, aimed at improving the general condition of the person. The second type is psychological. The first presupposes the formulation of a certain task, the solution of which is aimed at subsequent sessions. The main goal of the events is to return the person to a he althy body. Psychological hypnotherapy involves the use of these types of approaches to improve the mental state of a person.
About the method
To achieve a therapeutic effect, hypnosis in its primary form has long been used. For the first time such sessions of hypnotherapy were performed in antiquity. Currently, doctors know a wide variety of hypnotherapy techniques. Often use verbal suggestion. Hypnotizing the needy in accordance with Erickson's methodology is common. Elman's therapy is popular. They use levitational, directive hypnosis, transbeauty. Some practice the hypnotic gaze.
Quite often they resort to suggestion with words. This approach is necessary if the person cannot fix his gaze on some object. It is realized when a person lies down. The task of the psychotherapist is to use specialized phrases, sentences that are pronounced monotonously, quietly. It is preferable to listen to the doctor with your eyes closed.
Is it worth it?
As can be concluded fromreviews, hypnotherapy in the form of a classic gives a good result even if the doctor is forced to use only speech tools, if the person is ready for treatment in this way. The greater the client's confidence in success, the more positive and beneficial the sessions will be. Persons who have a negative attitude to hypnosis, even when using the most powerful and progressive techniques, often experience dissatisfaction with the sessions and their results.
From the reviews of hypnotherapy, we can conclude that people who, of their own free will and desire, turned to the doctor were usually satisfied with the results. People forced into treatment by friends or relatives are less likely to have an equally positive opinion. Positive feedback from those who worked with qualified doctors. If a person turned to a home-based, undocumented and unlicensed hypnologist, often the results of such therapy were not very good, if not completely absent.
Methodologies: more details
Sometimes hypnotherapy sessions are performed using the gaze method. There are two options for implementing this approach. Both of them have been used relatively rarely in recent years. The task of the specialist is to fix the attention of the patient in front of the treating person. The client looks, not looking up, into the eyes of his doctor. The second option is due to the authority of the doctor and the ability of the individual to captivate listeners. This variant is often used to make theatrical production successful, and in medical practice, this approach is most often resorted to ifalcohol addiction treatment required.
The levitation method has an alternative name - a light hand. This has become especially widespread in American psychotherapeutic practice. The main advantage of the approach is the ability to involve the patient in the process, to make him an active participant, which helps the doctor to put the recipient into a trance.
Erickson's hypnotherapy, named after its author, is driven by the idea of capturing the attention of the needy. To do this, the doctor surprises the listener and leads him into confusion. Shock, doubt, born in a client by a doctor can come to the rescue.
Classics and more
Most often resort to the classic version of directive hypnosis. This method presupposes the presence of distinct suggestions. The doctor is a source of authoritarian influence, he gives orders to his client. The suggestion is direct. The method is one of the relatively rigid ones. If you use it incorrectly, illiterately, you can harm the patient. Sometimes this approach is resorted to in order to form a rejection in the client, an aversion to alcoholic products. The task of the doctor is to put the correct prohibition. A distinctive feature of alcoholism is the tendency of people to drink alcohol to get rid of stress, since such drinks allow you to believe in calmness. When a person is deprived of such an outlet, she is faced with stress and dissatisfaction due to the realities of life. At the same time, the directive hypnotic method does not provide any new method of dealing with stress. The doctor fights the symptom insteadthe reasons. The result can be a deep depression. Some people develop suicidal tendencies due to improper treatment.
Erickson's methodology is also known as resolving. Such clinical hypnotherapy is due to the ability of the human subconscious to communicate with images. The task of the doctor is to force the person to do this. Pictures, metaphors become means of interaction. The peculiarity of the method is that its effectiveness is not determined by the level of trance, there is no order. In order for the suggestion to be effective, the therapist controls the mind of the needy - it is passive and subject to the doctor. A person, having settled on this method, trusts himself to the doctor completely and unconditionally. As can be inferred from the opinions of persons treated in this way by experienced, skilled professionals, success has always been uncompromising.
Transflaglighting and the Elman method
Transbegliitung is a clinical hypnotherapy that involves accompaniment in a trance. The idea of the method is in the continuous monitoring of the condition of the patient who needs the help of a hypnologist. The doctor accompanies the person, at the same time providing him with assistance. Together, people are looking for how to solve an existing problem. The psychotherapist becomes, as it were, a guide to new places for the person in the inner world, so choosing a path becomes an easier task. The main advantage of the method is the ability of a person to maintain control over himself and make decisions based on his will. The patient independently determines the solution and stops at it. The approach is considered relatively soft, conditionallyclassified as safe.
Elman developed his own version of hypnotherapy. Hypnosis through this method is effective because trance appears almost instantly. It is explained by the dissociation of the reasonable, the subconscious. Hypnosis, as many people think, in general, is self-hypnosis. Elman was one of the first specialists to formulate such a statement. He considered that the doctor could show the client a method of overcoming the boundary separating the habitual state from the hypnotic one. The idea of his method is that the person puts himself into hypnosis, and the doctor, plunging the client into such a state, has no power over the client.
Should or not?
Hypnotherapy treatment should be practiced carefully and very limitedly. It must be remembered that such techniques are designed to achieve a positive result with minimal risks to humans. To determine whether hypnosis is needed, what technique is applicable, you need to diagnose the condition. Individual reactions of people to hypnotic techniques are taken into account. Even with the same pathologies, the response of a person varies from case to case. Hypnotic approaches are widespread among modern psychotherapists. They are often resorted to if a person suffers from neurosis, hysteria, if the examination shows an alarming condition that persists for a long time. In the latter case, hypnosis is one of the most effective methods of calming a person. With the help of hypnosis, you can accurately determine what provoked a neurosis, which means choosing the appropriate method of treatment.
Cognitive hypnotherapy is one of the modern methods of curing phobias. Howmany psychotherapists of the last decades believe that it is phobia that is the real scourge of the time. From year to year, scientists reveal an increasing variety of obsessive fears. The classic approach to treating phobias is psychoanalysis. Although hypnotherapy is used for these purposes, it is still relatively rare. However, as practice shows, in a number of conditions, psychoanalysis is not applicable, and hypnosis becomes the only reliable method that gives a stable temporary improvement.
Diagnosis and treatment
Methods of hypnotherapy have found application in the treatment of minors. Such approaches are recommended for anorexia caused by the state of the nervous system, the human psyche. Sometimes hypnosis is indicated if schizophrenia is diagnosed. It is believed that a person's condition becomes much better if you combine medication and hypnosis. You can resort to this method to combat psychosis. Hypnosis is indicated in the treatment of those suffering from dependence on alcohol, drugs. At the same time, practice shows that the treatment of drug addicts is given through hypnosis is especially problematic. During an acute addiction to a drug, the person is malleable, easily suggestible, but the likelihood of an early relapse is above average.
Cognitive hypnotherapy is used in psychosomatic therapy. Medicine knows many cases of curing heart, vascular diseases, pathologies of the respiratory system through hypnosis. Thus, they successfully fight high blood pressure, cardiac neurosis, and heart rhythm disturbances. Hypnotictechniques were used to improve the condition of the disabled and those suffering from angina pectoris. A general improvement in he alth, a decrease in the level of anxiety has been proven. The same results were recorded in the treatment of people who have had a heart attack.
Respiratory diseases, especially if accompanied by asthmatic conditions, show good positive progress when a person is treated by a hypnologist. An asthma attack is usually complicated by the person's mental state. Thanks to hypnotic measures, it is possible to train a person to breathe normally.
Internal systems, organs and psyche
Modern hypnotherapy is widely used in the treatment of diseases of the endocrine nature. Such techniques have proven effective in the fight against improper functioning of the digestive system, intestinal tract. Psychotherapeutic hypnotic approaches are indicated in case of excess weight, since it was possible to notice a pronounced positive effect on metabolic processes. At the same time, the appetite decreases. Hypnosis gives good results in the fight against ulcerative intestinal diseases.
The effectiveness of holistic hypnotherapy, Erickson, classical and any other is due to the fact that many pathological conditions with which people turn to doctors are due to one degree or another to the malfunctioning of the nervous system. Hypnosis has shown itself to be a good helper in the fight against typical "female" diseases. Often such methods are practiced in the treatment of urological pathologies. For obstetricians, hypnosis is an important method of working with women in need of pain relief.
Sometimes you can't
In addition to indications, hypnotherapy also has a number of limitations. Possible complications in the background of the treatment program. Thus, the doctor may lose contact with the patient during a trance. In practice, this happens relatively often. This is officially called a loss of rapport.
If a person suffers from hysteria, there is a possibility of a tendency to have a hysterical fit while working with a hypnologist. Among persons with such pathologies, those who internally oppose therapeutic measures are more common. Known people suffering from hypnomania. As soon as the condition improves, the sessions end, such persons immediately fall into a state of psychological discomfort. Their sensitivity to hypnotic techniques is above average and they enjoy being in a trance. When the sessions are over, the person still longs for the euphoria associated with them, so he searches for the causes and returns to the original state of pathology in order to regain pleasure.
Can I learn?
There are special educational medical institutions that teach the basics of hypnotherapy. It is important not only to master the theory and study the provisions and rules of hypnosis speculatively, but also to regularly practice the application of such therapeutic approaches in practice. Students should constantly see how experienced professionals work, what results they achieve with their sessions, and also exercise on their own. Training in hypnotic techniques includes the desire to learn and develop professional skills. A hypnologist must be able to put a person into a trance andto keep it in such a state, to practice methods that save the person from existing problems. The training of a hypnologist involves the acquisition of skills in working with an individual and a group of those. An equally important aspect is self-hypnosis training.
Features of treatment
Regressive hypnotherapy is often indicated. More often they resort to it if it is necessary to deal with a phobia. The task of the doctor is to return the person in the memories to the situation that caused the violation. Over and over again, a person experiences frozen emotions, processing them with a greater degree of efficiency. When the doctor brings the patient out of the trance, the person feels better. As some say, they generally felt calmer, more positive, the feeling of pressure from problems and memories went away. This is most often done with childhood trauma.
Hypnotherapy for addictions is widespread. Correctly applied methods simplify the refusal of alcohol and tobacco products, narcotic substances. Most of these methods are experimental. The opinions of people who have received such treatment are quite diverse. Some believe that this is perhaps the simplest and best way to rid yourself of addiction. In parallel, the risk of relapse mentioned above is high. In many ways, its likelihood is determined by the talent and experience of the doctor.
Consequences
Even after a successful therapeutic course, the disease, which was fought with the help of hypnotic practices, can return again. Each individual case must be considered independently. Nowmedicine in this direction is not yet well developed, therefore it is not possible to guarantee the patient in advance that treatment with the help of hypnosis will give a positive result that will last for life.
The state of trance is a period when a person trusts himself to a specialist. If you managed to choose a real professional, there will probably be no unwanted complications. But if you work with an irresponsible doctor, an inexperienced person or a self-taught person, such a program can end negatively for a person. There will probably be no particularly great harm, since the person, even while under hypnosis, consciously follows the advice of a professional or refuses to follow the path indicated by the hypnologist.
Summing up
Sometimes hypnotherapy is recommended even for those who do not experience serious he alth problems. In some cases, such a measure of influence is more effective than a simple conversation with a psychotherapist or taking medication. In addition to the phobias mentioned above, the possibilities of hypnosis can be resorted to if a person needs the strength to defend his interests, to defend himself from the outside world. Some people have some trouble starting or carrying on a conversation. Hypnotherapy, as can be seen from the experience of many, solves this problem. Through this approach, it is possible to detect the sources of resentment, feelings of guilt or shame, correct them, survive and let go. Some use the help of a hypnologist to overcome modesty, irritability, obsessive thoughts.
