pure hypnoanalysis

[olly1]

Hi is there anyone who can tell me more about hypnoanalysis and whether it is the best type of hypnotherapy available. Also has anyone here had hypnoanalysis therapy and did it work in helping you?

[Poodle]

This is just a made up word that means "regression to cause". Many of the items that hypnoanalysis is used on are best left to NLP -- 5 - 10 minutes v. numerous sessions. I seldom use it while other people like it. It all depends on the client and how I "read" that client as to which tool I will pull out to use.

You may like to see a post Merlin wrote recently -- the client was eating "rubbish" and wished to stop. The client did not respond to the hypnotist's suggestions so Merlin wrote: Find the cause and the symptoms will go away. A very wise post in this instance as there are no "bad" foods. All foods are good at the correct times and in the correct amounts.

Hopefully this somewhat answered your questions. Please read Merlin's FAQ on hypnosis and read posts from other people to make up your own mind what you want to do.

Be well,
Pood :)

[Merlin]

about hypnoanalysis
it's just a word.
some will say "hypnoanalysis"
some will say "hypnotherapy"
some will say "hypnosis"
It means "use the tool of hypnosis"

[Don]

Hi is... hypnoanalysis ... the best type of hypnotherapy available?

There are two basic ways of approaching any form of therapy. They are what I call "process focused" and "client focused."

When therapy is process focused, the therapist is usually most familiar with one (or a very few) types of therapy and all clients/patients of that therapist receive a form of that type of therapy. Thus, the focus is entirely on the process and not the client. Often, the issues the client faces need to be pushed and shoved to fit into the process the therapist uses. As a result, process focused therapy usually takes far longer (than client focused therapy) and often is not as successful as a client might like. Since practitioners have their entire training and business wrapped up in their particular form of therapy, they might argue that the form of therapy they use is "the best" and they will give long and elaborate defenses for what they do. This is most often found among psychiatrists and psychologists.

Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, is client focused. A good hypnotherapist, as a result of training, study, and experience, is not limited to any specific process orientation--he or she might not even use hypnosis. Instead, he or she will interview the client and determine, along with the client, the direction of therapy to achieve the new behavior patterns desired by the client. The focus here is on the client, not any particular process. As a result, hypnotherapy may be much faster and much more successful.

My point in this is that there is no best form of hypnotherapy. There is only the most successful form of hypnotherapy for a client. It might be different for each client.