Is hypnotherapy a good idea?

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my mother abused me and my father is a sex offender. i’ve blocked out most of my childhood and an old therapist of mine suggested hypnotherapy. i was just wondering if anyone has tried it or has any opinion on it.

Category: asked September 21, 2015

3 Answers

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Your therapist needs to be re-educated. hypnotherapy is pseudoscientific nonsense. Hypnotherapy is no longer endorsed or supported by the American Psychological Association because of the risk of generating false memories at the guidance of the person conducting the session.
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Without sparking an argument, I will comment in response that the results of hypnotherapy may be significant, but the results are dependent on whether or not the person being hypnotized believes it will work. Medicine works apart from belief. Hypnotherapy only works if the person thinks that it is going to work. That is not medicine, that is a ritual placebo effect.

That being said, the studies are solid; hypnotherapy does produce positive results, but the risk of disappointment and the risk of the failure of the "procedure" is greater than 50%. User Hellsyinki cannot force themselves to believe that it will work, and if they turn out to be the type of person who cannot be hypnotized, they will just be further downtrodden. It is for that reason that I fully reject even the option of hypnotherapy; the results of hypnotherapy have been matched and even exceeded by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

To Hellsynki, stick with the real medicine, not mumbo-jumbo.
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I'll ignore Jonathan's statement XD , please, learn about hypnosis out of your textbook i suggest and research about both sides of it and practically apply it. .

I hope i'm not late to reply, hypnotherapy works and i'm willing to give you as much video material as proof as you'd like, apart from that, If a friend comes to me and asks me the same question you did, then I would clearly deny it because most of the doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists today are doing 'bussiness' , and they are in for your money, not for your well being. ,

do watch this video, its a hypnosis demonstration done by one of the most famous hypnotist in the world Derren Brown

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJasYOtqNPY

So rather then that, rather then going to someone who you aren't sure may help you, what i suggest is that you learn about 'self-hypnosis' and use it to better your situation. .

In all of my life, the following is the video, in which the lecturer explains the best self-hypnosis technique that i'm aware of
so i would suggest you this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_pp1j8pYQg .

the actual technique actually starts at 45 min into the video XD

if you are not comfortable watching the video and would like it that I personally explain it to you via these messages, i'm good with that as well. If you have any questions are unsure of anything, i'm available for that as well, if you'd like to vent or anything, by all means, i'm available to be as much help as i can.

Thank you for reading ^_^ I await your reply. .