Hypnosis psychotherapy and hypnotherapy what's the big deal....

Hypnosis psychotherapy and hypnotherapy are forms of psychotherapy that have gained a great deal of respect in medical circles in recent decades. Previously, all disciplines that relied on hypnosis were often dismissed as pseudoscience or even quackery, and unfortunately some of that past image has stuck in the collective opinion of many people.

What is the problem with hypnosis psychotherapy

It is the image, after all, therein lies the major problem that hypnosis psychotherapy struggles with today: many people have no idea of what exactly hypnotherapy is and therefore write it off as something that doesn't work. The absence of a one-sided clear definition of just what hypnosis and hypnotherapy entails is a major stumbling block in this regard.

The way we think about hypnosis psychotherapy contains a gross error. Indeed, many people view hypnosis as a kind of mystical mental state that conforms to the laws of magic rather than science. With such a view of hypnosis psychotherapy, of course, it is difficult to take hypnosis and all its related disciplines seriously.

Perhaps it is better to think about hypnotherapy as an accessible and powerful way to achieve social and psychological progress in an individual. Hypnosis then is a way to discover what is already there in a human brain, rather than giving a new mystical dimension to all things psychology and thought.

One example is that it is very difficult to explain just what that means: being under hypnosis. That it is a state necessary for performing hypnosis psychotherapy, most hypnotherapists can agree on that, but it becomes a lot more difficult when you ask them what "being under hypnosis" means.

Induction plays an important role in initiating hypnosis, but there are no set rules for induction. It does not seem to be an exact science with predictable response patterns. Rather, the experience of hypnosis is different for everyone and hypnosis psychotherapy will have a different effect on everyone.

Hypnotherapy differs...

Because hypnotherapy varies so much from person to person, it is very difficult to put together a standardized procedure, as is the case in many other medical (and by extension: scientific) disciplines. In psychiatry, there is a list of symptoms, and if the patient meets those symptoms, then they can be labeled with a particular illness and medicated appropriately.

Such a roadmap is hard to find for hypnosis psychotherapy, precisely because it is so individual. When you undergo hypnotherapy, you are completely at the mercy of the skill of the hypnotherapist treating you, and it is a major problem that there are few really good hypnotherapists.

Indeed, this is where the second major tragedy of hypnosis psychotherapy emer ges: the absence of a centralized value attribute. There are several institutes that issue certificates to hypnotherapists, but none of them is actually officially licensed by any government.

For this reason, many hypnosis experts believe it would help if the government officially recognized hypnosis and engaged in quality control, as is extensively done in all other medical disciplines. We are accredited with our training through the KTNO on behalf of the BATC and the VBAG, and they maintain quality control. It is important to have a training that is monitored because that way you are assured of a good hypnosis training.