What is clinical hypnosis?
Clinical hypnosis is a method that some health professionals, as in this case clinical psychologists, use within a therapeutic framework such as cognitive-behavioral therapies that serves to produce certain changes at the perceptual, sensory, behavioral level, to obtain a therapeutic objective, which may be several, through suggestions that are really suggestions that the clinician makes to the patient to achieve the therapeutic objective.
How does a session take place?
The sessions in clinical hypnosis take place within a therapeutic context in which, previously through a series of tests, the therapist has obtained the necessary information to know the degree of suggestibility that the patient may have including also a level of rapport or interaction and confidence that allow at a certain time to make the patient acquire a series of suggestions and from there we can achieve the therapeutic objective.
What pathologies can be treated thanks to hypnosis?
Although initially hypnosis was a method that was applied almost exclusively for some disorders such as addictions, smoking for example, over time, through clinical observation and research we have realized that the application of hypnosis as a method adjacent to other functional techniques, such as cognitive-behavioral techniques, what it has done has been to significantly increase the overall results of many other clinical disorders such as anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, sexual dysfunction and countless other disorders.
How do patients deal with hypnosis, are there cases in which it does not work?
At first, when we intervene through clinical hypnosis with patients, previously, the patient is already part of a therapeutic spectrum that is being applied within a therapy such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, and then through the therapeutic exercise and during it, after having established a relationship of trust, we propose to the patient the use of clinical hypnosis as a method that will surely favor and accelerate the results of the application therapy that at that time is being given to the patient. Under normal conditions almost all patients agree willingly, they are not reluctant, they are very cooperative and good results are usually obtained. Of course, as in all types of therapies, clinical hypnosis is not a panacea and for some patients, although it is an extremely operative and very proven method, because of the idiosyncrasy of their pathology, the idiosyncrasy of their personality, clinical hypnosis is not a good therapeutic method. When this is proven what is done is to discard the method and continue with normal therapeutics.