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Psychological Therapy and Hypnosis
If you have been browsing the internet you may wonder what all those techniques are (there are literally hundreds of them) that therapists claim to specialise in, and whether one or other of those techniques might be more effective than the rest for treating the problem you have in mind. My philosophy about therapeutics is straighforward.
Techniques (you name them! - NLP, EFT, EMDR, CBT, PCP, SOBT, "curative hypnosis", "cognitive hypnotherapy" etc etc) for treating, say, a phobia or anxiety are only tools, and tools cannot do the job without a craftsman. Likewise a craftsman, however good they may be, cannot do the job without tools. It takes both in partnership, but that's not the whole picture. The most crucial element is the healthy working relationship between a client and their therapist. Rapport is a two way thing, and ultimately the real "expert" in treating or solving the problem is not the therapist but the client. The role of the therapist is to empower the client to develop this expertise, which should stay with the client after the therapy is concluded.
The therapist's responsibility therefore is one of using the best appoaches that he has at his disposal. Often this would be a combination of a range of techniques as well as a clear understanding of the client's problem(s). This understanding is founded on advanced knowledge of psychology.
Hypnosis is only one of such tools that I use, and I do so because of its high and subtle effectiveness in bringing about desired change without the need for strenuous conscious contemplation and self-examination.
Psychological underpinnings of therapy
I don't often refer to the term "clinical". This is primarily because of my belief in modern psychological practice. In the past psychological therapies have mainly looked at deficits and how to address them. As such therapists adopted the so-called "medical model" of identifying a "deficit" and upon such a diagnosis, prospect upon a "cure", dependent usually on a stock-in-trade "treatment" for it. However, it doesn't take a genius to work out that no one-size fits all in psychological matters and the individual needs of a person.
Modern psychology takes the view that human beings are far more complex than could be predicted by simple aetiology (ie causation of illness). Further, such complexity is not only unique to each person but also extremely subtle. Modern psychology also takes the view that the strengths of the person must be taken into account as part of the intervention. "Positive psychology" gives much more emphasis to personal and individual resources of a client or group (or even a community) to facilitate positive desired outcomes. These may involve factors such as a person's creativity, emotional resilience, unique skills, personal history, personality factors, levels of contentment etc.
This is not to say that the medical model is bad, but to directly import it into psychological therapy would be to deprive the therapeutic process of rich resources, which can contribute so much to the therapeutic or interventive process.
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