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Q 1. Why a minimum of 3 sessions?
A. To help prevent any relapse, to take into account individual differences, and finally to provide sufficient material to make a tailored hypnosis tape for the client to purchase if they wish. As the psychological contract makes clear though, any one can terminate coaching after the 1st session providing they give 24 hours notice.
Q 2. What if I can't be hypnotised?
A. Every one can be hypnotised to some extent, and much effective coaching work is done in only a light trance, akin to day dreaming. The exceptions would be people who are intoxicated, or on very strong medication preventing them taking on board the suggestions given, or very young children.
Q 3. Isn't hypnosis a con, like the stage shows?
A. No! Responsible university's and professional organisations have written into their code of conduct that hypnotherapists cannot perform hypnosis shows for entertainment. The reason is made quite clear when one reads from this excerpt from "a complete course in Stage Hypnotism" ......"experience has shown down through the years that the hypnotic show must be faked".....For responsible practitioners hypnosis has been studied at universities since 1816. It has been shown to have very beneficial effects when used as an adjunctive technique in counselling.
Q 4. Why can't you give a guarantee?
A. I could, but it would be unethical. No research has shown that as a result of One to One Work a particular client with a particular presenting problem will definitely improve. There are too many variables to account for because of the complexity of humans. The majority will improve, but who can say this particular client is a part of that majority with absolute certainty?....No one.
Q 5. Can you make me do things I don't want to, or put thoughts into me which I don't approve of?
A. In every day life salespeople and politicians to name but two are attempting to get us to do and think differently. In every day life people try to influence others. Under hypnosis little changes. You retain your full faculties, and indeed your senses can be enhanced to make you even more aware of what is going on. Just as you can say no to a politician or a salesperson, so you can say no to a hypnotherapist's suggestions. You take on board what is beneficial to you.
Q 6. How does hypnosis work?
A. Research has shown that the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for reality testing, and logical thought, become inhibited and less active during hypnosis. Conversely the part of the brain to the rear, and to the right generally speaking become more dominant. Helen Crawford a well known researcher into hypnosis talks of "a shift in cognitive functioning away from verbal detail oriented strategy". What all of this produces is a person who is not only more open to suggestion, but a person also who is very much more able to explore their internal world of thoughts, memories, and beliefs. In the hypnotic state generally people are more amenable to having such beliefs altered. When they come out of hypnosis, and after quite a few months they will report "being different" and "behaving differently". They have not had to try, rather such difference is a function of changing beliefs at a sub conscious level during hypnosis.
Q 7. Can I recover lost memories in hypnosis?
A. The British Psychological Society published a report entitled "Recovered memories", in 1995. The only conclusion concerning hypnosis was that "hypnosis makes memory more confident and less reliable. There is still a great deal of controversy over this subject. Research on memory has shown that once memory has been modified by subsequent and false information, any original information which is inconsistent is erased, and the modification is believed as though it were true. |
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