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What is psychoanalytical hypnotherapy?
ANALYTICAL HYPNOTHERAPY
This is an exclusive form of treatment in which hypnosis and psychoanalysis are combined. Using the relaxation of hypnosis (the window to the unconscious) and the probing action psychoanalysis, this method requires only 8-12 sessions approximately to achieve goals (as measured against the 1000 hours associated with conventional psychoanalysis). It is therefore a brief form of therapy and hypnosis is the catalyst.
The therapy may be concentrated and upsetting at times as regression techniques are employed to find repressed emotions, so a commitment is necessary. Commitments not just in time but especially in the desire to be finally free to live a new life.
A complete and lasting release is possible through finding and dealing with the root cause of problems rather than just the removal of symptoms. Too often hypnotherapy has been regarded as a means of suggesting away problems. While this may sometimes be appropriate (as in the pain of childbirth), when the problem 's cause is psychological then psychoanalysis is the vehicle of choice. Freud described hypnosis as the 'Royal road to the unconscious', and hypnosis is the vehicle's fuel.
This search for the root cause of the symptom is achievable through a variety of hypnotic techniques and these are engaged simultaneously with psychotherapy tools and strategies. The originating cause of symptoms may have been held firmly in the unconscious mind for many years. The client's symptom can be viewed as a metaphorical expression of underlying unconscious anxieties or conflicts.
Belboeuf (1889), Binet (18920, Janet (1889), had all made a similar discovery to Freud and Breuer, which Freud summarises as:
"…we found to our great surprise at first, that each individual hysterical symptom, immediately and permanently disappeared, when we had succeeded in bringing clearly to light the memory of the event by which it was provoked, and in arousing its accompanying emotion, and when the patient had described that event in the greatest possible detail, and had put the affect into words".
This adequately describes the fundamental concept of cause and effect and tackling symptoms by abreation to bring about a catharsis. Unconscious repressions continue to be active there, many years later. These memories have been forced into or kept in the unconscious because conscious awareness would be too negatively provoking. Hypnoanalysis creates conditions where these repressions are undone or released
The release can be surprising, enlightening, as well as liberating. You realise where your problem came from, and with that realisation comes the cure from within yourself.