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Hypnotherapy as a Misnomer.
Some years back at a discussion and hypnosis conference and the clinical psychiatrist from California. He had a very valid point to make.
The word Hypnotherapy as a Misnomer. In my language:
in places where we are still allowed to use the word therapy, hypnosis is not the therapy, the suggestions are.
Hypnosis is the vehicle by which the clinically impacting suggestions are delivered. So in places where we're still won't use the word therapy of which varies from US state to state, The clinical or therapeutic impact might be better described as suggestion therapy via hypnosis or clinical suggestion.
I know that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue smoothly, but it is in fact a more accurate description.
As the word hypnosis itself is not completely adequate description of what we do, of late I have been using the word tranced rather than hypnotized a lot.
The word Hypnotherapy as a Misnomer. In my language:
in places where we are still allowed to use the word therapy, hypnosis is not the therapy, the suggestions are.
Hypnosis is the vehicle by which the clinically impacting suggestions are delivered. So in places where we're still won't use the word therapy of which varies from US state to state, The clinical or therapeutic impact might be better described as suggestion therapy via hypnosis or clinical suggestion.
I know that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue smoothly, but it is in fact a more accurate description.
As the word hypnosis itself is not completely adequate description of what we do, of late I have been using the word tranced rather than hypnotized a lot.
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Permalink Reply by Rick Crockett on -
I understand what you are saying though then therapy is not healing either but rather the path to it. Hypnosis is the path the therapy can take. Without hypnosis that path is so much longer that the client/patient probably will never make it. One psychologist said before hypnosis in his practice, therapy took months of weekly visits and in many cases the commitment of time and money was often too great. Having been exposed to hypnosis he went back to study further and then was able to produce better results in only one or two visits.
HMI does not like for its graduates to use the word trance because of the association in some's mind to the occult. For me it is a matter of semantics.
If we look at this in a common phraseology "the truck rolls on down the road" , we know what that means but technically it is wrong or at least we hope so. The truck's tires actually do the rolling on the road and we certainly hope it is not the truck. If it were actually the truck then it wouldn't get very far just as suggestion therapy with out hypnosis.
In California graduates of Certified Schools of Hypnosis are legal practitioners of Alternative Medicine.
Best,
Rick C. Bentized a plenty would like some more.
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Permalink Reply by John Greene on
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Perhaps you should rewrite this.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on -
Actually Rick anyone in California who claims to be a hypnotist - be they a graduate or not - of a great school or no school, is simply offering a service and has no title such as "practitioner of alternative medicine". The situation in California actually conferns no rights, titles or status to a hypnotist (or any practioner of anything other than that which the state licenses). The situation in California simply allows the consumer the right to have any treatment from anything that they desire, and the Unlicensed practitioner of whatever (in the this case hypnosis) simply has an obligaton to inform the client that the state has not licensed them to offer any services, but that the state recognizes the clients right to seek any treatment that they desire.
The only reason I am correcting this is that you post seemed to imply that graduates of some schools get some status. That simply is not so. They simply won't be stopped, becasue the consumer has a right to seek any treatment they wish (except those specifically excluded by state or federal statute). So in California, print your own diploma, disclose accuratley your lack of licensure and viola, the state recognized not the hypnotists right to practice, but the consumers right to choose.
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Permalink Reply by Marjorie Cameron (Poodle) on -
Very, very close. We trade trances all day long. The hypnotic trance is different in that the CF is by-passed. Have you studied with Igor L? "Alice" happens to be one of his fav's.
Stay well~Pood
Conrad Cook said:Trance is different from hypnosis in that in a state of hypnosis, the trance is directed by the hypnotist. If your hypnotic subjects are tranced and not hypnotized, they're not following your suggestions.
"Clinical suggestion" suggests that the client is the one giving the suggestions.
"Therapy via hypnosis" does not improve matters over hypnotherapy, since it simply means "therapy by way of hypnosis," while you are arguing that this is what is not happening.
You might as well re-name psychotherapy, logotherapy, and aromatherapy while you're at it. Or accept that the English doesn't make logic.'There's glory for you!'
`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.'
--Through the Looking Glass
Conrad.
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