Hypnotherapy as a Misnomer.

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Permalink Reply by John Greene on September 1, 2009 at 4:01pm

Perhaps you should rewrite this.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Nongard - NLPBoard.com on September 1, 2009 at 6:25pm

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 September 4, 2009 at 8:34am

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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