Can hypnosis help me stop drinking or taking drugs?
Hypnosis can be very, very helpful in helping a person overcome addictions, and in the same breath, I will say that overcoming addictions is a bit of a slippery slope, particularly when substance abuse is involved. People abusing alcohol and/or drugs, are taking mind-altering substances. Now hypnosis is a process that uses the mind. If the mind is altered, it makes hypnosis sort of impotent, if you will. So if I’m treating a substance abuse addiction, and I do treat quite a few clients for that, I demand that they also participate concurrently in some sort of sponsored program, where they have a daily requirement to report to somebody and to monitor their process. Addicts will lie to themselves, they will lie to their families, and mostly to themselves. And hypnosis, in and of itself, in clinical studies, has not proven to be particularly effective on its own. However, when combined with an appropriate sponsored program or an appropriate psychotherapeutic program, it can be an extremel
