Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Pure
Hypnoanalysis
The most successful form of therapy available - Fast, Effective, Empowering.
The are two main types of hypnotherapy practised by IAPH
therapists:
1. Suggestion Therapy (sometimes called 'Clinical Hypnosis'), and
2. 'Pure Hypnoanalysis' (a unique therapy only practised by the IAPH)
Suggestion Therapy:
Suggestion Therapy is 'normal' hypnotherapy. When you hear the term 'hypnotherapy' used in the media, they are (most often) referring to this type of therapy. Basically, you will be relaxed into a lovely, calm light hypnotic state (where you will be wide awake and fully in control - but nice and relaxed) and you will be given suggestions that will effect your behaviour/feelings once you are out of the hypnotic state - hence the term 'post-hypnotic suggestion'.
The type of suggestion given will depend on the symptom you are wanting help with. If you are stopping smoking, a typical suggestion would be 'you will feel a huge sense of pride and pleasure now you are a non smoker' or 'you will find it easy to live your life as a non smoker'. Note that ALL suggestions given will be completely positive, and worded very carefull in order to get the very best results. This type of therapy session is ideal for: smokers wishing to quit, a person suffering from pre-test nerves, someone wanting help with their driving test, or help with pain control - particulalry for childbirth.
Suggestion therapy can be very effective, but the results are only temporary - hence it is particularly useful when short-term benefits are needed(see above).
Suggestion therapy only requires one, or maybe two sessions.
Pure Hypnoanalysis
Pure Hypnoanalysis is the single most effective form of therapy available in the world today, for the resolution of anxiety, depression, phobias, fears, eating disorders and other psychological and emotional problems/symptoms.
Pure Hypnoanalysis is a highly developed form of hypnoanalysis (sometimes called hypno-analysis or analytical hypnotherapy) Hypnoanalysis, in its various forms, is practised all over the world, though only IAPH Members are trained to practice the amazing 'Pure' version. To understand why Pure Hypnoanalysis is SO effective, please read the transcript below.
This form of hypnotherapy can TOTALLY RESOLVE the CAUSE of unconscious anxieties - leaving the sufferer free of their symptoms for life!
Pure Hypnoanalysis usually takes 8-12 weekly sessions, lasting about an hour each.
We are SO confident about the speed and effectiveness
of Pure Hypnoanalysis, that we will
NEVER charge for more than 12 sessions!
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Below is the transcript of a lecture given by Rob Kelly
FIAPH in 2004, on how/why Pure Hypnoanalysis works
What is so different about the hypnotherapy
IAPH Members practise?
‘Pure’
Hypnoanalysis, a special type of hypnotherapy, is an amazing therapeutic
process, developed to help people to permanently resolve their unconscious
anxieties and conflicts, freeing them from their symptoms and problems
in life .
Pure (adjective): unmodified, untainted, simple,
unaffected, true, clean.
Hypnoanalysis (noun): "a therapeutic technique
in which a client is relaxed into hypnosis, and using free-association,
sets out to release and resolve bottled-up emotions, conflicts and anxieties
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To understand why IAPH‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis is so different,
and so much more effective that other forms of therapy, we must first
look at why people have ‘symptoms’ ...
If you were to try and think of a ‘yard-stick’ to somehow
measure the severity or intensity of one symptom against another, you
could use the experience of ‘getting over the death of a loved-one’.
Most schools of psychology (and your own experience) will tell you that
it takes ‘the average person’(1) a couple of years to get
over the death of a loved one. (Now, this is such a difficult and varied
experience to generalise for the purpose of this explanation, but such
a common experience, that most people will either have had some direct
or indirect experience of it). When I say a couple of years to get over
the death of a loved-one, I mean the initial effects of the death of a
loved one – those (necessary) experiences that create what is known
as ‘grieving’. A grieving process is very similar for most
people: you miss your loved-one, you think about your loved-one, you dream
about your loved-one, you cry about your loved-one, you talk about your
loved-one, lots of places/people/feelings remind you of your loved-one…..
all of these experiences bring the thought of your loved-one into your
mind (or consciousness, to be specific) and you feel some sort of emotion.
You may feel sad, you may feel guilty, you may feel pain, or loss, or
anger, or shame, or happy, or any other type of emotion… the bottom
line is the same though: the thought of your (recently-passed) loved-one
comes into your mind, and you feel emotional.
The thought comes into your mind,
and you feel the emotion
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Now, anyone who has ever lost a loved-one will know that the first few days/weeks/months
are the hardest. This is because during the ‘early grieving days’,
the emotions are at their strongest, and last the longest. The longer the
grieving process goes on, the less and less the emotion bubbles to the surface,
and you find it easier and easier to get on with your life. Within a couple
of years, the thoughts and ‘negative memories’(2) come into
mind less, and less, and less, and the ‘sufferer’ feels ‘more
free’ or ‘less depressed’, or ‘less held-back’
at time goes by…..
Immediately after the loss, you cannot even think about your loved-one without
breaking down and sobbing……. A couple of years later, you can
talk about them freely without being affected at all… you are no longer
thing about the ‘negative stuff’, and you are able once again
to think about the pleasant, happy memories: you are resolved!
I call this the ‘Natural Therapeutic Process’
Time doesn't heal - the release of emotion
does
The famous saying ‘time heals’ is not strictly true. Time doesn’t
heal, it is the emotions and experiences that arise (into consciousness)
OVER time, that heals. It is the slow, deliberate, natural ‘drip drip
drip’ of emotions arising over time, which allows people to resolve
emotional trauma.
The same analogy can be used for ANY emotional or psychological ‘trauma’:
car crashes, disease, a relationship break-up, rape, assault, war, abuse
….. and less obvious trauma as well: divorce, sibling rivalry, school
anxieties, fighting, childhood insecurities, acne, blushing, ‘growing
pains’..
This
is a perfectly NATURAL process, which people have been using since they
were living in caves! It is a superb process/technique, because each person
will go through the process at their own natural rate - depending on many
factors, including: the size of the ‘trauma’, how stressed they
are, how supported they are, whether they have a loving spouse at home,
whether they have good ‘coping mechanisms’, what personality
type they have…. People resolve things at their own pace. (Have you
ever noticed how some of your friends get over things very quickly, yet
some are still conflicted many years later?)
So, the average person can (effectively) resolve a major emotional trauma
(the death of a loved-one – our ‘yard stick’) in two years.
Two years later, they are getting on with their lives…
Why then, are some people afraid of; spiders, dogs, flying, darkness, being
alone, being judged, wetting themselves etc all their lives? If they could
get over the death of a loved one in two years, how come they still have
their fear of spiders twenty years later?
The same question can be asked in relation to symptoms: Why is it that diets
don’t work? Why is it that most ex-smokers put on weight? Why is it
that most depressed people stay depressed, compulsives stay compulsive,
nailbiters stay nailbiting, obsessives stay as obsessive, shy people stay
shy?????
How come all these emotionally-driven symptoms remain, to a greater or lesser
extent, year-in, year-out? (3)
The answer is very, very simple: the emotional conflict causing them, is
‘bottled up’(4)
If the emotional conflict is bottled-up and hidden away, how can a person
get over it?
How can you ‘get over’ something you don’t remember? You
can only ‘grieve’ if the memory/experience is coming into your
mind….. if it is not in your mind, how can you cry about it, talk
about it, shout about it?
All of the symptoms listed on this website are
caused by ‘bottled up’ emotional conflicts, that the sufferer
has no idea they have!
See Alans’
video testimonial – his chronic IBS and Social Phobia were caused
by bottled up emotions.
See Sams’
video testimonial – her pathological fear of being sick (emetophobia)
was caused by bottled up emotions.
Alternatively, you could talk to any one of the 250,000 people every year,
who have their anxieties resolved by releasing their bottled-up emotional
conflicts, after seeing an IAPH therapist.
So… the most ‘natural’ form of therapy, is one that utilises
this natural therapeutic process that everybody has within themselves –
this is EXACTLY what ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ does: it allows the
person to quickly and easily resolve the bottled up emotions that were causing
the symptoms, and the symptoms completely disappear, for good.
Does that sound too good to be true? Does that sound unbelievable? Ask yourself
this: look back to when you were a teenager, and to when your first relationship
ended – the first time you were ‘dumped’ by a boyfriend
or girlfriend…Remember how devastated you felt? Remember how depressed/angry/sad/lonely
you felt? You may even have gone ‘the whole hog’ and written
some poetry about it! (as did I) You probably felt that life just wasn’t
worth living, and that life was never going to be the same again…
You don’t feel like that now though, do you?
Looking back on that incident 20 years ago, you don’t feel the same
about it now, do you? You don’t STILL feel sad/depressed/angry/alone
about the break up. Even if you really sit back and think about it, try
and remember it all, in all its glory, you CAN NOT and WILL NOT feel those
horrible feelings now – because you are over it. You have dealt with
it, you have grieved for it, you have resolved it, and it will NEVER bother
you again. Something that was traumatic, emotional, frightening, sad, painful
etc doesn’t bother you AT ALL anymore, because you have resolved it.
Much like the analogy above of the grieving process in respect of the death
of a loved one, you have resolved the bulk of the emotion, and are able
to get on with your life.
What would have happened though, if, for some reason, you couldn’t
or weren’t able to grieve about your teenage relationship ending?
Let’s say it was SO emotional, that you simply couldn’t face
up to it, and you bottled it all up…. (this is called ‘repression’
– a repression occurs when the emotion is so strong that the persons
psyche completely ‘hides it’ from their consciousness: it is
not ‘forgotten’ like the way we sometimes forget things, it
is totally hidden from consciousness – repressed) All those emotions
would still be with you now, buried in the back of your mind, causing you
untold grief and anxiety..
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could create a safe, caring, trusting,
confidential relationship with a therapist, and slowly release those bottled
up emotions?
Sounds great? But how do we know where to find those emotions?
If the emotions are completely bottled up, and hidden away from consciousness,
how do we access them?
That is the 6,000,000 dollar question!
Resolving
emotional conflicts
The
answer is, of course, that we don’t have to FIND those emotions (we
don’t have to find them when getting over the death of a loved-one..
we don’t have to find them when getting over the breakdown in a relationship)
those emotions WILL COME TO THE SURFACE BY THEMSELVES – if the correct
therapeutic relationship is created, AND the therapist ALLOWS the clients
Natural Therapeutic Process to work – rather than telling the client
what they believe is wrong, and what they believe the client should do,
in order to be freed from their symptoms (more about this later)
So, every person that has a psychological or emotional symptom (see symptoms
page) has some bottled up emotions that are causing those symptoms. To naturally
and completely get rid of those symptoms we must allow those ‘repressed’
emotions to come to the surface so we can resolve them… So the only
truly effective therapy is one that allows those ‘bottled-up/repressed’
emotions – how many therapies actually do that?(5)
The answer to that question (as far as we can tell) is: just one –
‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’
To understand why the above is the case, we must look at what other types
of therapy actually do…
A closer
look at other therapies
Let’s take a fairly simple case of ‘social phobia’ (sometimes
known as social anxiety. Social phobia is caused by bottled-up/repressed
feelings of shame and guilt. The sufferer feels ‘judged’ by
other people, and avoids places and situations where they might feel ‘on
the spot’ or embarrassed – particularly in public.
If the social phobia sufferer went for traditional counselling,
the two of them would probably discuss the situations and experiences that
were ‘triggering off’ the phobia (relationship/stress/work/confidence
etc) The sufferer might feel a bit better, and feel a but more in control,
BUT they would still have their phobia and it would still be having a profound
effect upon their life.
If the sufferer went for psychotherapy, they would probably
receive a more in-depth version of the counselling above. Without getting
to the bottled-up CAUSE of the phobia though, the sufferer can only obtain
a limited resolution.
If the sufferer went for some CBT, they would probably
feel more control of their life, and find life easier… but the phobia
would still be there, affecting their life
If the sufferer went for normal hypnotherapy (sometimes
called ‘clinical’ or ‘suggestion’) they would have
one or two sessions and feel quite a lot better, BUT the emotion would find
another way out, and the symptoms would soon likely return with a vengeance!
If the sufferer went for normal ‘hypnoanalysis’(6) (not the
IAPH ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ version) they would probably get a
lot better, but probably wouldn’t get to the CAUSE of the problem,
and hence wouldn’t get the full, amazing resolution.
If, however, the sufferer went for a course of ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’,
they would very likely bring to the surface ALL the repressed/bottled-up
emotions that were causing the phobia, freeing them from the symptoms completely
and permanently.
Please don’t think I am saying that these other forms of therapy aren’t
successful, because they are. They are all able to help people to change
their lives – when they are used in the correct setting, for the right
sort of problem. You wouldn’t go to a ‘grief counsellor’
for help with a phobia… you wouldn’t go to an NLP practitioner if you were contemplating suicide… you wouldn’t
go for four years of psychotherapy if you were simply frightened of flying!
If your problems or symptoms in life are caused by bottled-up/repressed
emotions, then there is no better therapy to help resolve them, than ‘Pure’
Hypnoanalysis.
So how does ‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis
work?
Pure Hypnoanalysis simply creates a safe, trusting and confidential environment
where the natural therapeutic process can work, ALLOWING the client to slowly
bring all the bottled up emotions to the surface. It doesn’t rely
on ‘therapist insight’, ‘fishing techniques’, regression
techniques or any other ‘invasive’ techniques in order to work
effectively. Create the right relationship, show the client how to utilise
the natural therapeutic process, and in six or seven sessions the bottled-up
emotions will be resolved.
What happens
in a typical session?
Over a period of about 6-8 weekly hour-long sessions(7) the client is gently
relaxed into a very light hypnotic state (they are wide-awake, fully in
control, but very relaxed) and whilst is this relaxed state, asked to verbalise
recollections that spring into their mind. This free-association(8) of experiences
very quickly allows the client’s subconscious mind to ‘push
to the surface’ experiences that relate to the ‘bottled up emotion’
(go back five minutes and remember the description of what happens during
the natural therapeutic process ….. experiences keep on coming into
mind and they keep on linking back to the ‘trauma’ (the bottled-up
emotion) until all the emotion is released)
Other types of hypnotherapy (and other therapies) attempt to use the technique
of 'free association' but (as far as we know) do not use it in its 'purest'
form as taught within the IAPH. This is because UNLIKE many other therapies,
‘Pure’ Hypnoanalysis DOES NOT RELY on insight or intellect -
in other words it doesn't rely on what the therapist (or the client) deems
is important / significant. Our research suggests that many therapies fail
to utilise this natural therapeutic process because the therapist has either
tried to a) short cut it (e.g. pin point regression techniques) b) determine
what they THINK is causing the clients symptoms c) intervene too much in
the therapy process and inellectualise / interpret what's happening. All
of these things simply slow down or halt the natural process of simply allowing
the emotions to surface in a very caring, non-judgemental atmosphere(9)
The lack of understanding of (what I have referred to as) the natural therapeutic
process, is, in my opinion, the single biggest reason why there are so many
different types of therapy available today: everyone is attempting to ‘control
the symptom’, rather than ‘resolve the real underlying cause’.
‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ (as practised by IAPH Members)
is the most effective form of therapy available in the world today: it is
quick, low-cost, simple and life changing.
Why would anyone chose to go through
their life, continually fighting to get control over individual
symptoms (weight, smoking, phobias, depression etc) when they can
permanently resolve them in just a few sessions?
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A summary of Pure Hypnoanalysis
Post hypnotic suggestion - Suggestion Therapy
IAPH hypnotherapists are also highly skilled in the application
of suggestion therapy, sometimes known as 'clinical hypnosis'. This type
of session involves the use of psychology, visualisation, positive suggestions,
hypnosis and relaxation for treating minor problems or achieving short-term
goals.
Footnotes
(1) Average European middle-class person.
(2) Not so much ‘negative memories’, but memories accompanied
by unpleasant or negative feelings (loss, sadness, guilt, pain etc)
(3) It’s a terrible fact to face up to in the year 2007, but most
anxious, depressed, stressed and phobic people remain fairly anxious, depressed,
stressed and phobic most of their lives. Yes, they get better for a while,
and yes, symptoms come and go, but on the whole, though the person may change
in many ways as they older, they tend to remain as ‘neurotic’ (emotionally conflicted) all their lives.
(4) For ‘bottled-up’, you can substitute many other psychological
terms such as repressed, suppressed, denied, disavowed, dissociated
(5) Actually do it every time, not just sometimes, or occasionally, but
every single time.
(6) ‘Hypnoanalysis’ is a generic term for ‘any analytical
technique using hypnosis’ To the vast majority of therapists who practice
Hypnoanalysis, this usually means a ‘fishing trip’ whereby the
therapist is using lots of different techniques whilst trying to find the
cause of the problem (fishing around). These ‘different techniques’
all attempt to bypass the natural resolution process and ‘force’ bottled up or repressed emotions to the surface. In my
experience these ‘fishing’ techniques very rarely find the cause
of the problem, and if they do, if they ‘force’ the emotions
to the surface before the client is good and ready, generally speaking,
the client finds them very difficult to deal with, and not very therapeutic!
(7) A course of ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ can take as few as six
sessions, and as many as twelve. How long the therapy does take, is dependent
on many factors including: the nature of the symptoms, the age and personality-type
of the client, and the client-therapist relationship.
(8) Freud was the first to use Free-Association (in psychoanalysis) but
it was/is nothing like the pure and clean version we use in Pure Hypnoanalysis.
True free-association is about getting the right connection from each experience
that a client relates….. it is NOT about an intellectual exercise
where the therapist interprets the clients recollections – this is
not necessary in Pure Hypnoanalysis
(9) There are hundreds of books available on different therapeutic techniques,
techniques to be used both within the hypnotic state, and within the normal
waking state (traditional psychotherapy) Most of these techniques have been
developed to help the client overcome some sort of ‘mental block’,
‘resistance’ or ‘barrier’ that is stopping therapy
from working correctly. In ‘Pure Hypnoanalysis’ these invasive,
therapist-interpreted techniques are not necessary.
If you would like to be able to practise this amazing therapy, please click here to go to our training course page.
