Is hypnotherapy like stage hypnotists?
Hypnotherapy is not the same as stage hypnosis, indeed many hypnotherapy organisations work to contest stage hypnotists as legitimate entertainment. Stage acts, use tests to find the most suggestible people and rely on finding exhibitionists to manipulate people into acting in ‘bizarre’ ways for entertainment. With an audience there is increased conformity, increased exhibitionism and often a loss of control, even more so with other substances like alcohol. In a therapeutic setting these factors do not exist. The only suing case in hypnotherapy in the UK was when a stage hypnotist chose a member of the audience who had been severely sexually abused and brought back these memories while the audience at first ridiculed her. The stage hypnotist rarely conducts checks on his audience’s past, mental state or background. The real shame here is that hypnotherapy historically received a bad press. The reluctance of individuals to try hypnotherapy as a psychotherapeutic method has often been ma
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