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Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
As a mental health professional for nearly half a century, I have seen many, many therapies come and go; with a growing emphasis on evidence-based practice in health generally, and mental health specifically, the number of available therapies is shrinking (at least in mainstream health) and I have no doubt that many current practices will fall away as they come under greater academic scrutiny. Hypnotherapy seems to be an interesting exception to this rule: while research finds actual benefits from hypnotherapy for anxiety and psychosomatic problems, it is regularly offered for conditions for which it has no value. There is no condition that can be treated under hypnosis that can't be treated without and competent therapists may use hypnosis as an adjunct to therapy, but they know that it is not the hypnosis per se that achieved the outcome. Naive and untrained counselors and their "patients" do not understand this, and have little understanding of expectancy and halo effect or the placebo effect. Together with relaxation, these are the source of most of the results attributable to hypnotherapy: 12 months after treatment, many of these successes have vanished: in fact, most gains have been lost within the first month. Why then does hypnotherapy flourish? In many countries it is not controlled nor overseen by an appropriate body, in the way that medicine, psychology, nursing, or even counseling is. Private-practice hypnotherapists typically encourage their clients to refer new clients immediately after treatment, when they are still full of positive feelings about their experience and have a vested interested in believing they are "cured" and that the hypnotist is a miracle worker. And of course, many people are desperate enough to give anything a try! Hypnosis in the hands of a properly accredited health professional is a useful tool; but being able to induce a hypnotic state does not confer on the hypnotherapist the ability or knowledge to treat illness. It is these credentials that a potential client should investigate, rather than the therapists membership or experience with hypnosis.
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1034/j.1600-0722.2002.21234.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=eos
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This intel was contributed by David Rich
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