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Hypnotherapy In Medicine: The Subconscious Approach To Healing
By John Krukowski, C.H.
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Her fear was so profound her subconscious actually stopped the blood flowing to her arms as an effort to discourage the needles. When it was explained to her that her subconscious was causing her arms to change and at the same time the suggestion was given, "If they can't find the blood in your arms the other places they will look are much less pleasant." After the suggestion the blood visibly returned to her arms in about 30 seconds. She was not in a hypnotic state when the suggestion was given. After that her fear of needles was dealt with using hypnotic suggestions.
Hypnotherapy vs. Psychotherapy vs. Psychiatry
Hypnotherapy greatly differs from psychotherapy and psychiatry. Psychotherapy and psychiatry deal with the conscious mind. The conscious mind is much more technical and requires a more technical approach. This is very time consuming with slow recovery. Most if not all mental illness starts at the subconscious level. Hypnotherapy is the only therapy that goes directly to the subconscious source. Hypnotherapy on average takes 25% of the time of conscious therapy. This is because the subconscious mind is vastly more powerful that the conscious mind. Psychiatrists and Psychologists often send their toughest cases to qualified hypnotherapists. Psychotherapy works by stepping through the problems or tasks and talking about them along the way. Looking at things from many viewpoints and seeing what response is given. This helps to identify and to focus on the problem. This is a long and drawn out process. If you were to give the example of building a house, everything and every step from deciding where to build to getting the material to putting on the last coat of paint must be covered. Psychiatry most typically is the introduction of mind altering medicines. This often only masks the problem with the hope that the afflicted person will sort things out on their own. Unfortunately due to the low number of Psychiatrists in Thailand it leaves few other options. Medications that were intended for short term therapy have been and are being used in long term therapy. This is still a conscious approach. Hypnotherapy deals with the subconscious. The approaches are completely different. It is much like the Trojan horse. All resistance is in the conscious mind. The 'I can not' and the 'I will not' exist in the conscious mind. Hypnotherapy simply bypasses that and goes to the source. The subconscious is very simple and will only respond to simple ideas. So instead of giving step by step instructions on building a house, that is simply replace with the concept 'build a house.' The person accepts the suggestion and sets about building the house. They will only stop and ask for directions if they truly do not know what to do along the way. The subconscious also tends to be lazy and often makes mistakes although all intentions are good. So by helping the subconscious mind to find a new and better idea is one of the keys to hypnotherapy. It is not necessary for a Hypnotherapist to have a degree in psychology or other conscious approaches. Hypnotherapy is unique and should not be confused with conscious therapy. There is at least one group that does not agree with this and some professionals view them as a bit arrogant. Ultimately it is each person's decision if this is necessary to have both or not.
Quotes From Dr. of Psychiatry Frank S. Caprio
I believe that the use of hypnosis should not be limited to physicians and dentists. Frank S. Caprio: Frank S. Caprio: Better Health With Self Hypnosis: Parker Pub Co. New York: 1985 Hypnosis In Gynecology And Obstetrics: Leslie M Lecron & Jean Bordeaux: Hypnotism Today: Wilshire Books: Hollywood CA: 1947
Medical hypnotists of the past noted that various menstrual disturbances are often amendable to hypnotic treatment. Menstrual pains that are not a symptom of disease have sometimes been observed to be only a product of suggestion. Healthy women of primitive races have been said to feel no such pain, though it is also claimed that the pain is there but not evidenced because of cultural differences in self-expression. Whether true or not, when the civilized girl reaches puberty, she learns from mother, sisters or friends to expect discomfort and pain and to consider the monthly period as the ''curse'' of women. As a result of such suggestion, she usually feels the mentioned symptoms. If a female is a good hypnotic subject, suggestion will (248) remove some types of menstrual pain, though diagnosis should be made to determine whether or not this is desirable. Menorrhagia or excessive blood flow during menstruation has frequently been reported as hypnotically controllable. Mention has also been made of hypnotic regulation of the length of period when it is abnormal, though these matters undoubtedly are dependent on causation. As is supposedly true of pain during menstruation, pain in childbirth is partly due to suggestion and expectancy. Civilized women have been taught to expect pain at this time and are convinced that labor must be painful, so of course it is. As every dentist knows, anticipation increases pain, partly through muscular tension, and consequently the prospective mother feels great pain during delivery unless she is anaesthetized, because she has been told that the event will be a terrific ordeal. In primitive races no such belief is held, and primitive women bear children with much less pain. Pain in childbirth sometimes can be prevented through hypnotic anesthesia (the more common is still being used instead of the technical analgesia). Before the recent war its use was frequently reported in, Germany and Austria, and it was, commonly practiced in hospitals in the larger Russian cities. In the United States hypnotism's ill repute has caused obstetricians to refrain from employing it, though in one Chicago hospital it has been the anesthetic in many maternity cases; a San Francisco obstetrician has often resorted to it; and other isolated instances are now and then recorded.
The method has a real disadvantage in that only a small percentage of expectant mothers are good enough hypnotic subjects for the induction of complete anesthesia. With many more, pain can be lessened. The number with whom it would be efficacious could be greatly increased if time were taken to teach them to become good subjects. The time required to (249) produce hypnotic anesthesia and to show the woman how to apply it herself is, of course, another drawback. There is no need for the hypnotist to be present at delivery. Properly applied the subject should be able to hypnotize herself, or else posthypnotic suggestion is given for her to enter the trance when the physician says the proper time has arrived. Of course it would be best if the obstetrician were the hypnotist. Aside from feeling no pain, there are other beneficial aspects to such anesthesia during childbirth. Absence of shack after delivery — possible cause of bad after effects has been noted, and there can be full conscious cooperation and participation in the birth by the mother. This is said to be psychologically desirable. read more›
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