Drug assiatance to induce hypnosis

[JACKO]

Hi Don

Please forgive me for contacting you directly but I don't know how to do a post.

It is with trepidation that I write to you because I really don't wish to upset you. By error if I do, please excuse me.

I am from Durban, South Africa. I have a great deal of faith in Hypnotherapy, however I have a need to feel a tangible outcome from a session. To date I have been to two different Hypnotherapy practicing psychologists for four sessions each and have felt nothing. It may be possible that it is very difficult to hypnotise me.

Is there a drug that a therapist could use to assist in inducing Hypnosis initially and if successful the therapist could use post hypnotic suggestions that may make future sessions more hypnotisable and deeper.

I think that for me this may be a better way as I have already spent a lot of money and cannot afford to spend so much on an ongoing basis.

I still do have a lot of faith in Hypnotherapy.

Please Help!

Thank you

Jacko

NB. Please ignore your visitors page as I just Learned how to post.

[Don]

Hi, Jacko.

I can't speak for the situation in Durban, but I can say that here, in the U.S., some psychologists consider hypnotherapy to be part of a dark past they want to, but can't ignore. As a result--often after years of studying psychology which is often focused around long-term supposed "cures"--their training with hypnotherapy is minimal and often their entire approach follows a paradigm that is not that of hypnotherapy. For example to some psychologists, their attitude is "patients are broken and I (or to more enlightened ones, "we") will fix them." In hypnotherapy, the attitude is more "my client is doing the best they can with the training and experience they have. My goal is to help the client learn the skill that will allow them to adopt the behaviors they wish to possess." Many professional hypnotherapists here in the U.S. have spent thousands of hours in training and study, and continue to add to that every year. Many psychologists have had a weekend of study of hypnosis, or less.

So it does not surprise me at all that some psychologists have failed to help you succeed. For psychotherapy, psychologists are excellent. They may not be good hypnotherapists. For hypnotherapy, hypnotists are excellent. They may not be go psychologists. Therefore, I would suggest that you seek a hypnotherapist rather than a psychologist who does hypnotherapy, or at least find a psychologist who has had a minimum of 100 hours of hypnosis training and who continues to study and get trainings yearly.

Everyone can be hypnotized. Period. However, no hypnotist can hypnotize everyone. Most professional hypnotists I know have a wide variety of induction skills. Many who claim to do hypnosis only know one or two.

There are a variety of drugs known as "hypnotics." Unfortunately, they put a person into a drugged state, not a hypnotic trance. I know of no drug that will help a person become hypnotized.

[Merlin]

1- ask the hypnotist for a 'convincer' so that you know you were hypnotised.
2-drug use is illegal except by an MD