Symptom Resolution
in
Hypnotherapy

There are primarily two methods of achieving symptomatic resolution in hypnotherapy, these methods being that of direct, and indirect suggestion. At times, direct suggestion might prove effective, but quite often the case is one of only temporary relief. Patients come to therapy because they have tried all they know via conscious thought processes, using will power along with whatever means they might have thought up without relief.

Ericksonian hypnotherapy consists of using one’s autonomous response systems which bypass conscious thought processes to carry out suggestions. The Ericksonian therapist in turn helps facilitate the emergence of untapped potentials and response systems within the patient so that unrealized potentials may become manifest. This is all done via indirect methods such as metaphor, puns, and various methods of employing subliminal suggestion within the altered mind set of trance.

Watzlawick, in his wonderful book “The Language of Change” (1978), states that lasting change occurs within the brains right hemisphere, that of creativity rather than the left brain function of analytical thought. To gain contact to the right hemisphere, the left must be blocked and this is most easily accomplished with hypnosis. Similar to Erickson’s beliefs, patients do not require a better or more logical understanding of their challenges, but instead, different ways of interpreting the world around them providing for different emotional understandings.

Symptoms often sub-serve a multitude of emotional, and often unconscious needs, and/or desires; they may constitute some form of defense mechanism, or act as a form of self-punishment, along with many other possibilities. The hypnotherapist in turn also has a multitude of options as to what might be done for symptomatic relief including that of transference, environmental manipulation, the strengthening of body and/or mental defenses, and that of symptom substitution to name a few.

Some symptoms might require long term analysis for the discovery of origins, but most are readily accessible via hypnotic techniques. The primary purpose behind symptom identification is to ensure that if, the symptom is being used as a protective measure against some form of psychosis, proper care would in turn follow taking this into account.
Similar to that of symptom identification, disease identification is also important so that proper measures are taken to either satisfy a cure, lessen any damaging effects of the disease, or simply to offer some form of control measure via hypnotic training.

As a final note, lasting change occurs via right brain thinking, and in turn is strongly responsive to hypnotic techniques. Via the introduction of visualization techniques, a patient’s goals can be greatly enhanced creating a strong, motivational factor. The combination of motivational images plus the reorganization of mental thoughts via metaphor, subliminal suggestion, or that of reframing prior beliefs, will dramatically increase the chance of beneficial results within the therapeutic setting.

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