Hypnosis in Berlin

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What is Hypnosis

The term hypnose comes from the Greek word “hupnos” which means sleep. Contrary to its etymology, hypnosis is a natural state of altered consciousness. It does not correspond to a waking state but to a dissociative state which allows access to the unconscious. According to the Larousse dictionary: “the term unconscious designates in a fairly general way the inaccessible part of the psychic functioning of any human individual, whether this inaccessibility is temporary or constant.” It’s that part that is stronger than yourself, what you can stop yourself from being, doing or thinking.

Ericksonian hypnosis is a therapeutic approach that allows the patient to access their unconscious to make profound changes that consciousness cannot make on its own. The unconscious and the conscious will combine together to resolve problems and develop new, healthier and more balanced coping strategies for the patient.

 Ericksonian hypnosis:

It is a support that is useful for pain, the management of anxiety disorders (stress, phobia, low self-esteem, panic attacks), for addictions (eating disorders and smoking), for somatization (dermatological , migraine, inflammation) and in psychopathology (personality and mood disorders). It is useful to help people better manage their emotions or physical reactions to stress or anxiety factors. Hypnosis is a complementary method to medical, paramedical and psychological monitoring. In the context of chronic and/or serious illness, however, it is recommended to have the agreement of a doctor and that medical monitoring is always effective in order to be able to use hypnosis.

It is a humanist approach where the therapist induces in the patient, in a state of modified consciousness, indirect suggestions which allow the unconscious to mobilize its psychic resources. Ericksonian hypnosis appeared at the beginning of the 20th century by the American psychiatrist Milton.H Erickson who was able to cure of his poliomyelitis (paralysis) thanks to self-hypnosis. He views hypnosis as a natural and permissive state. Erickson believes that everyone has within them the resources and capacity to alleviate their own suffering and resolve their problems in ways that are not necessarily cognitively understood and analyzed. For him, it is only important that changes occur.

Indeed, we are all, to more or less different degrees, receptive to the hypnotic state that we experience every day in our daily lives. For example when we read a book, our mind elsewhere and we must return to the lines that we have covered but which we have not read. Even better, for those who drive, when we realize that for a period of time, our mind goes elsewhere, yet driving has been done automatically. For movie buffs, movies are a great example of an altered state of consciousness. Indeed, if you watch a film in the cinema, you are well aware that certain things do not exist in reality or are not plausible, and yet, during the moment of a film and you let yourself be caught up in the game! In hypnosis it is the patient who will be at the origin of his modified state of consciousness throughout the session.