AnalyticHypnoTherapy

In 1958 the American Medical Association recognized hypnosis as a legitimate, safe approach to medical and psychological problems. Today more people recognize that the mind and body interact. Mind and body are integrated parts of a whole being; a change in one part affects the other.

Hypnosis is a normal state of consciousness. Hypnosis can be defined as concentrated and directed daydreaming. A person in hypnosis does not lose control. Whereas the word sleep is sometimes used to describe the trance state, the patient is far from being asleep. A person in hypnosis is aware of his surroundings in a detached sort of way and is more receptive to acceptable suggestions.  Another common definition of hypnosis is a concentration of attention accompanied with the ignoring of other surrounding stimuli. 

There are many misconceptions about hypnosis. Hypnosis is a natural state that we have all experienced. An example of this is whenever it is really important for you to get up at an unusual time and you wake up ten minutes before the alarm goes off you are responding to a post-hypnotic suggestion. A mother who sleeps through a thunderstorm but awakens when her sick child moans, again, responds to a post-hypnotic suggestion. Actually, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Anyone who wants to hypnotized can be hypnotized.

A hypnotized person will not accept any idea or suggestion that is against his/her religion, up-bringing, morality, or against “their grain." The patient achieves his/her own hypnotic state. The Medical Hypnoanalyst is the guide.