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Medical Hypnoanalysis Explained

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Medical Hypnoanalysis

The method was developed by a group of physicians on the West Coast in the 60's and 70's and originally only physicians were permitted to be trained in its use. As time progressed training was expanded to all individuals who were licensed to diagnose and treat mental disorders. The practitioner of Medical Hypnoanalysis requires a training background in the basics of psychology, developmental psychology, psychopathology and psychotherapy as well as hypnosis.

Medical Hypnoanalysis is dynamic, short term and directed. It is dynamic in that the treatment approach emphasizes causes rather than symptoms, explanations rather than descriptions, and unconscious forces rather than conscious forces as being the ultimate origin of the psychology.

It is short term in that in most of the situations twenty or less sessions are required for the completion of the treatment procedure, with the majority ranging between ten and sixteen sessions.

It is directed therapy in that the psychotherapist, upon making a diagnosis, follows a medical model of psychotherapy aimed at alleviating the symptoms by means of resolving underlying, unconscious causes.

Medical Hypnoanalysis first examines the presenting symptoms of the patient by means of a case history, observing verbal and non-verbal communication, while seeking unconscious clues to the ultimate causes of the symptoms in order to make a psychodynamic diagnosis. After the patient is introduced to hypnosis the majority of the therapeutic sessions are conducted with the patient in the hypnotized state. The therapist investigates the unconscious by using the following procedures:

A specifically designed word association exercise
Dream analysis
Age regressions directed at crucial periods earlier in the patient's life.

Such procedures allow identification and re-implementation, adjustment or re-evaluation and desensitization of the casual events. This procedure is directed at correcting the symptoms and the unwanted behavior which causes suffering and disease. For example depression, phobias, obsessions, psychosomatic disorders, self-destructive and anti-social behavior and other psychological problems can be relieved.

Except for the history and the initial hypnotic induction, therapy is conducted with the patient comfortably seated in a treatment room, in a recliner, with sleep shades, microphone, and headset with the therapist in another location. The patient is observed by means of closed circuit television and communication occurs using microphones and headsets. There are many advantages to this arrangement for example music and other devices can be easily utilized, the history and other references can be consulted, and notes made without disrupting the patient.