hypnosis by cd

[rhnyc]

I am interested to loose 15 stubborn pounds. While looking for something else I found a website of a US Hypnotist who offers a CD with 4 sessions promising, that one can loose weight sucessfully, or rather change the way of eating, with this system.
My question: can I trust a hypnosis CD??
Thanks for your response.

[Terry (existing)]

I am interested to loose 15 stubborn pounds. While looking for something else I found a website of a US Hypnotist who offers a CD with 4 sessions promising, that one can loose weight sucessfully, or rather change the way of eating, with this system.
My question: can I trust a hypnosis CD??
Thanks for your response. .......NO.....

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"I am interested to loose 15 stubborn pounds...can I trust a hypnosis CD??"


Yes

[Don]

Everybody is an individual. If the CD works on the particular causes of the behaviors you need to change, as opposed to the causes of the behaviors by others, then the answer is "yes, it will help." If it doesn't address your particular issues, the answer is "probably not."

Remember, you issues are probably on an unconscious level, so even if you think you know the reason for not losing those last 15, that may not be the actual cause.

Will the CD address your real issues? The issues you may think are at cause? Or issues at all? I don't know. A qualified hypnotherapist will be able to help you.

[Jack]

Hello,

Some people find CDs as effective as anything else. Other people see no benefit from weight loss CDs. Some people find therapists effective and some do not. Ask the US Hypnotist if he /she offers a money back guarantee. If they do then you have nothing to lose. Otherwise, caveat emptor.

Jack

[Don]

Hi, Jack.

This leads to another interesting discussion. Dentists don't provide money back guarantees. Doctors don't provide such a guarantee. Psychologists don't. Psychiatrists don't.

On the other hand, plumber do. Locksmiths do.

By suggesting that a hypnotherapist offer a money back guarantee, you are putting hypnotherapists on the level of a tradesperson and not a professional (those are technical terms and not meant to imply that tradespeople are not professionals in their field). So is a hypnotherapist closer to a psychologist or a plumber, a doctor or a locksmith?

Further, if a person knows that he will get his money back if the hypnotherapy doesn't work, then he has nothing at risk and no financial benefit from succeeding or failing at the therapy. It would, IMO, encourage failure.

From what I've seen, the best hypnotherapists do not offer a money-back guarantee. However, if someone's therapy is a failure, they will refund the money--they just don't announce it or publicize it.

Knowing that he or she may need to refund money also encourages a hypnotherapist to select clients more carefully. Better to have 10 successful clients than 25 clients with 17 failures.

[Neurotic1]

Hi Don

This leads to another interesting discussion. Dentists don't provide money back guarantees. Doctors don't provide such a guarantee. Psychologists don't. Psychiatrists don't.
As an aside, many dentists do provide (limited) money back guarantees (even the best dentists) if their work fails based upon materials, etc. Most professionals can afford to do this because they know their work is unlikely to fail due to reasons of their own knowledge or skills and such offers may have benefits if they are never required to be fulfilled. If it fails because of the patient, then it is the patient's tough luck but then it could be argued, as you imply, that one might select patients who we feel we are able to help and are able to help themselves thus we would avoid treating those who we cannot help or are not prepared to help themselves. Even in such circumstances there are always unknowns and this surely applies to all professions. Maybe key is elicitation of the necessary information from the patient at the consultation stage, evaluating the problem, appraising expectations, informing and educating the patient, and planning based on the findings. These I know are some of the most important phases of hypnotherapy also.

Rhnyc, I would say that buying a hypnosis cd is like buying a pair of shoes which you have never tried on and have been advertise to everyone with the promise: 'this same pair of shoes will help everyone to walk well'. A ridiculous claim I'm sure you would agree. Some of those who bought the shoes would have bunyons that the shoemakers didn't know about. For some, they would be too small, for some too large and whilst many would be able to walk in them after a fashion, there are those who would find an them impossible size or shape to wear or, even worse, damaging. Having said that, every now and then, someone would buy the shoes and find they fit almost perfectly. Why would you buy shoes like this when you can try some on and see for yourself before you buy. Although then even if you get your money back, why risk wasting time and possibly sore feet to find out they don't fit? Equally, why not pay a little more for a pair of shoes tailor made to fit you perfectly which could help you to walk comfortably forever and have a good chance of lasting the rest of your life? Maybe it would make sense to see a professional face to face to help find out how to get the perfect size and shape for you?
Good luck with your quest

[Jack]

Hello Don,

To a great extent I agree with you. However, Have you ever tried getting money back from a plumber?

The question asked concerned CDs. CDs are bought sight unseen, unlike therapy which is face to face. If a client sees a therapist the client can decide in the pre-induction interview whether they trust the therapist and whether they are willing to pay money for the services provided. With CDs the client has no idea how trustworthy the maker of the CD is because there is no personal relationship. So, I stand by the 'money back guarantee' for CDs.

On a personal level I only ever offer money back in two cases. One, for stopping smoking, and two, when the client feels aggrieved in some way. In the first case if the client begins smoking again then I haven't done my job properly or professionally and in the second life is too short to waste it arguing the toss or chasing money.

There is, of course, a public perception that hypnotherapists are not professionals in the same sense as doctors, psychiatrists et al and having seen the standard in our profession at the moment I am forced to agree with the perception. Hypnotherapy is seen as on a level with treatments like Indian Head Massage.

It therefore behoves us to change that perception and the only way to do that is by increasing the qualification levels and unify professional organisations, but of course in the process the 'art' of hypnotherapy may very well be lost. We have to ask ourselves do we really want to exist in a hidebound and backward looking profession like medicine? Do we really want to churn out clones from the universities all of whom never emerge from the pages of the manual they were given as a student? I wish there were a middle way, but in the public perception there isn't.

Jack
Jack

[rhnyc]

Thanks to all your imput, suggestions and help:)
I am glad that I opened a string which went us far as calling in the plumber, I like this!!
I get the message and will find a "live" hypnotist and not replace him with a CD
Thank you all and Happy New Year
Renee