Hypno-analytical Therapy 

Emotional issues such as anxiety/stress and psychological issues have great response within this type of treatment. As this therapy is based on the doctrine of cause and effect, the main object of analytical therapy is to search for the original reason using free association (no direction from the therapist), or cause of a particular problem that is causing them undue stress or anxiety, such as an anxiety attacks, phobias, lacking in confidence, or any issue that is bothering them emotionally. After the intense bottled up emotions are confronted and the person is facing the original cause, this then will be released, and a permanent relief of the symptom(s) is then achieved and realisation is gained.

There is no reason at all why anyone should have to put up with something that is inside of themselves but outside their control.

This type of therapy uses hypnosis to aid the process of free association (random recall) of past experiences in the persons life. An intense emotional event from our childhood may be hidden (repressed) from the conscious part of the mind, but linked with a behaviour such as a phobia, anxiety/panic attack, depression, stress/tension or a more physical symptom such as a stuttering, and stammering. By examining past events and allowing the associated emotions to be released, those patterns of behaviour, the symptoms, become unnecessary and therefore cease.

Certain problems respond particularly well to Hypno-analysis are:

Phobias (claustrophobia, agoraphobia, etc.), anxiety and panic attacks, migraines, sexual problems (e.g. premature ejaculation), severe eating disorders (e.g. anorexia, bulimia), stuttering/stammering and depression, sleeping disorders (insomnia), obsessions ( OCD) and obsessive thoughts, self harm and low self esteem.

The use of hypnosis in this therapy dramatically enhances the analytical process, achieving in a matter of weeks which would generally be expected of the more conventional 1,000 hour analytical therapy (psychiatry or other long term therapy). Analytical therapy usually takes between 8 to 12 weekly sessions, of around 50 minutes each, although this is only a guideline as every person that ventures into therapy is very unique and have their own individual needs that differ accordingly.

Hypnoanalysis and Suggestion Therapy

For the members of the International Association of Hypnoanalysts, our way of thinking is to use Hypno-analysis to deal with phobias as well as anxieties and other deeply rooted psychological problems, because it deals with the cause of the problem and not just the symptom. Suggestion therapy only deals with the symptom - the cause remains.

Read this example to help illustrate the difference:

Someone suffers from a severe pain in their back. They go to see their GP who can prescribe pain-killers. The doctor has dealt with the symptom - the pain-killers have removed the pain, but it may return if they stop taking the tablets.

This is similar with Suggestion Therapy.

So the GP refers them to a private specialist, who recommends surgery. The surgeon removes the cause and the pain has gone - and will never return.

This is again similar with Analysis.

The use of Suggestion Therapy to attempt to remove a phobia, say for instance claustrophobia, may, in some cases appear to work. The behaviour pattern that was protecting the cause, the phobia (symptom), may have been removed, but because the cause remains, a new protective pattern of behaviour must be created and a phenomenon known as symptom substitution can appear. When this happens, where the person is no longer claustrophobic, they may now have acquired the opposite problem, a fear of going out into the open, known as agoraphobia or something equally as problematic, this is known as symptom substitution.

And most definitely, that person will praise the hypnotist that cured them of their horrible claustrophobia. Then they find themselves having to spend more time and money going back to that great hypnotist to get rid of the new problematic agoraphobia. And the problems keeps being replaced and yet again another substituted symptom will appear and the person will be back to first base.

This is without a doubt an endless circle. So that's why we personally and members of the IAH refrain from using suggestion therapy to treat phobias (or other deeper rooted psychological problems, such as anxiety and panic attacks, depression, stutters/stammers and eating problems many more). Suggestion therapy is generally used for weight loss/control, stop/quit smoking cigarettes therapy