How effective is focused trance, hypnosis, or trance-based counseling?
A noted psychologist’s comparative study of effectiveness reports in psychology and psychotherapy literature revealed that of the major therapeutic approaches, the focused trance form of hypnosis is one of the most effective (see Alfred A. Barrios, PhD, in Psychotherapy Magazine, v7n1, and in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice, Spring 1970): • Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions. • Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions. • Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions. As you can see, there’s a very good reason why hypnosis is one of the leading processes chosen by folks at the forefront of the brief therapy movement. Other forms of focused trancework were not included in the study but can reasonably be expected to score highly as well due to the crossover skills shared among the various focused trance modalities.
