Hypnosis in Clinical Practice: Steps for Mastering Hypnotherapy

3 Responses to “Hypnosis in Clinical Practice: Steps for Mastering Hypnotherapy”

1. Bernard Show says:

   October 27, 2010 at 11:01 pm

   I have been involved Clinical Hypnosis for nearly 25 years now. Although I am not a psychiatrist nor a psychologist I receive referrals from those mental “health” professionals who do not do Hypnosis simply because they do not have the training and they know they can depend on a ethical, experienced and conscientious Hypnotherapists whether they are licensed or not. I am continuously–as anyone in any profession should —studying advanced techniques and associated disciplines, and to be able to be more resourceful, I just entered graduate school at the University to complete my Master Degree in (Family Counseling) Psychology.

   I judge this is a excellent book because it has conscientious advise based on excellent professional practices including ethical and “technical”.

   Unfortunately, it suffers from the apologetic syndrome of frightening people hostile to the “apparent large numbers of poorly qualified and laypeople who do hypnosis…” and I know why the authors do that, nothing private, but a qualification and certificates on the wall on mental health professions do not, minimally, assure or guarantee an well-organized, responsible nor ethical performance. After all, despise the terrible anecdotal references on fake memories and many other inappropiate modalities, I have never seen people become intoxicated due to a “misconduct” of a hypnosis “treatment”.

   Anyway, for its cost, the book does not offer any new or exceptional approach to the do of “clinical” hypnosis. The authors state early in the book that their purpose is only to give overall suggestions to trained hypnotherapists to start or start using hypnosis into their professional pratices. If that’s the only main objective of the book, well, no harm for a hundred and fifty pages of pep talk and day-to-day do. If you are a involved Hypnotherapist I urge Cognitive Hypnotherapy by Assen Alladin, brilliant book.

   For me, if a involved, licensed, mental “health” professional trained in hypnosis does not know what the authors in this book [Hypnosis in Clinical Do] suggest, I dare to say that they should go to their training entity or school and question for a refund.

   Rating: 3 / 5
2. M. Paschke says:

   October 28, 2010 at 12:53 am

   This book is simple to follow and contains in rank about specific things therapists can do to both initiate and use hypnosis in their clinical do. Both writers initiate many need to know pieces of in rank about how to read your clients so that you can work with them in a way that meets them where they are. You will find in rank about ideomotor communication and how to answer to what our clients are telling us through such communication. This book is also written with a friendliness to the reader that makes you want to keep reading and that makes you know the value of hypnosis.
   Rating: 5 / 5
3. Pavel Somov, Ph.D. says:

   October 28, 2010 at 1:51 am

   After reading the first several pages of Voit’s and Delaney’s book, I opened my wallet and pulled out a dozen of receipts for bookmarks. Soon, I ran out of the receipts and started to dog-ear the pages (both on top and bottom) to highlight the passages I knew I want to come back to. Having finished this 130+ pages book, I can report that I have dog-eared about 60% of the pages… It goes without saying, I found this book very valuable.

   Having been trained in hypnotherapy, as a clinical psychologist, I am one of those who seldom uses hypnosis. Not being the type to waste my CEUs, I have not quite understood my reluctance about using the method of hypnosis more frequently. Voit’s and Delaney’s book shed a validating light on why that is.

   The book, with its emphasis on naturalistic employment of trance, is not proposed as a primer on hypnosis. The book presumes that the reader had been trained in hypnotherapy but has below-utilized it. From my perspective, the book not only succeeds in helping a novice hypnotherapist finally make sense of his/her internal conflicts about the use of hypnosis (such as unnecessary sense of responsibility for client’s success of trance or performance anxiety) but also manages to powerfully renew the original enthusiasm and intrigue with which we (hypnosis-underutilizing certified hypnotherapists) had originally sought out training in hypnosis.

   The book also skillfully educates about such issues as resistance (reframing resistance in a way that empowers the therapist with an angle at employment), symptoms (reframing symptoms as client’s adaptations and solutions), and legal ramifications of use of hypnosis (providing a review of vital legal issues as well as a sample informed consent for use of hypnosis).

   The book culminates in what appears to be a poetic and poignant post-hypnotic induction for the reader.

   With gratitude to the authors,

   Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
   
   Licensed Psychologist
   
   Pittsburgh, PA
   
   psclinical@hotmail.com
   
   Rating: 5 / 5