The Clinical Use of Self-Hypnosis in Hypnotherapy: Tapping the Functions of Imagery and Adaptive Regression

Eisen, Marlene R.; Fromm, Erika

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“…The therapist can suggest that the adult patient provide the child with the kind of parenting the child needs and desires. Patients often use this image to their advantage in self-hypnosis, becoming self-nurturing, giving the inner child loving, accepting messages (Eisen & Fromm, 1983). Nurtured until it becomes more content, the child ego state can then experience joy and liberate creativity.…”

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Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic models of hypnoanalysis.

Eisen¹

1993

Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis.

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There is a strong historical precedent for the use of hypnosis as a therapeutic modality. Freud studied with two early hypnosis practitioners, Charcot and Breuer, and used this art in his practice. In discussing the idealization of the object (i.e., the image of the significant person in the mind of the individual), Freud (1905/ 1953b) was impressed by hypnotized subjects' credulous submissiveness to the hypnotist. Comparing hypnosis to being in love, Freud pointed out that just as the loved object often stands in the place of the idealized aspect of the self, the essence of hypnosis resides in an unconscious fixation of the subject's libido to the hypnotist as an ego ideal.Schilder and Kauders (1927/1956) agreed with Freud that hypnosis and suggestion have an erotic root. Submission to authority has an eroticmasochistic component. Subjects project their desires for magical powers onto the hypnotist and, subsequently, by the process of identification, attain those powers that they would not otherwise be able to ascribe to themselves.

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“…The first is a narcissistic patient who feared self-exploration but also sought it out with great intensity (Eisen & Fromm, 1983). He had created a "living myth" for himself comprised of a perfect family, a loving wife, two beautiful, accomplished children, and a successful career.…”

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Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic models of hypnoanalysis.

Eisen¹

1993

Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis.

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“…Using hypnosis, therapists foster patients' trust by creating a safe relationship through the use of nurturing and positive imagery as well as by encouraging patients to develop their own inner resources (Eisen & Fromm, 1983). Hypnosis may also intensify infantile patterns of object relations that are reestablished with the therapist (Smith, 1984).…”

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Operator variables in hypnotherapy.

Strauss¹

1993

Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis.

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Although much has been written about technique and strategy, patient characteristics, and outcomes of hypnotherapy, relatively little has been written about the characteristics of successful hypnotherapists (Lazar & Dempster, 1984). Whereas successful hypnotherapists have all of the qua12 ities of successful psychotherapists, they also have a number of distinguishing qualities relevant to the practice of hypnosis. In this chapter I identify therapist variables that contribute to successful hypnotherapy. Before I consider characteristics of particular relevance to hypnotherapy, I first consider the literature pertinent to the characteristics of successful psychotherapists in general. To illustrate the importance of therapist flexibility, realistically appraising the patient and the situation and assuming a goaldirected yet stepwise approach to the practice of hypnotherapy, I present two cases relevant to the training and general clinical context. Finally, a review of the research on operator variables in hypnotherapy, along with concluding comments, are presented.

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“…The hypnoanalyst's role is that of a "benign guide" (Eisen & Fromm, 1983) who gives the patient the open-ended suggestion that "some" imagery will come up in the patient's mind that has "some" relation to the patients psychic dilemmas. Then, he or she helps the patient understand (e.g., by means of free association) the imagery that has arisen in the trance and connect it to the patient's conflict.…”

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“…Object representations which remain relatively unmodified in the unconscious gain less structuralization and therefore often are not integrated into higher structures. They remain available in their primitive form to be called up in trance states via the primary process (Eisen & Fromm, 1983).…”

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