Hypnotherapy Explained

by Assen Alladin, Glenn Robert

Hypnotherapy provides a powerful tool for utilizing the power of the mind to reduce distress and suffering. This concise guide provides readers with a rich source of ideas on starting hypnotherapy practice, and thinking seriously about hypnosis as a powerful adjunct to psychotherapy and medical interventions. With a clear definition of what hypnosis really is, readers can develop an understanding of the rationale for utilising hypnotherapy with particular disorders.As the medical community is progressively adopting a biopsychosocial model of healing, there is a serious move toward validating the scientific credibility of hypnosis, and hypnotherapy has become a well-established treatment. Unlike any other introductory text, "Hypnotherapy Explained" adopts a uniquely scientific approach among introductory texts; reviewing theories and offering practical ways to integrate hypnotherapy in medical, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic practice. It is enlightening reading for general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists and other healthcare professionals.

176 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

Reviews

[Gebo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh. I'm over reading these heavily medically focused books about hypnotherapy. This book explains hypnotherapy a bit, but not really. It focuses on Hilgard's stupid disassociate theory, which has already been heavily refuted in 17-20th century philosophy (just Google homunculus) and a ton of cognitive psychology! Then, when discussing the techniques and how to go about hypnotherapy, Alladin offers his CH model and gets into CBT... Which is cool and everything, but a well-trained hypnotherapist will be frustrated at the way he sets 16+ sessions to do stuff you could do better and faster in 1-5 sessions of just hypnotherapy. Even if you wanted to use a CBT frame, there are much faster ways to do this work. I mean imagine the ABCDE model: why not have clients start to do this in trance, then, pop each of their cognitions and reframe them then? Why have them go do that work alone? Likewise, why have them focus on all this cognitive restructuring and remembering to do all that conscious, cognitive work when you can just do it in hypnosis? Especially when Alladin puts non-conscious restructuring as one of the benefits of hypnosis... I don't really get why Alladin does his sessions this way. Seems like a massive waste of practitioner time and client time and money... Likewise, not sure why Drs who've studied Ericksonian techniques would just use simple direct suggestion and not touch any of the incredibly powerful things that more advanced forms of hypnosis offer. His suggestions and "scripts" are weak at best.