What is Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy?
Cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy (CBH) is a core modality of modern hypnotherapy and hypno-psychotherapy. It is a branch of hypnotherapy, not a branch of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). It combines traditional concepts and techniques from Victorian hypnosis, of a cognitive or behavioural nature, with modern cognitive-behavioural theories of hypnosis, and certain elements of CBT. Cognitive and behavioural techniques have always been implicit in hypnotherapy since the original writings of Braid and Bernheim in the Victorian era. However, modern cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy became more explicitly formulated in a number of research articles and books published the 1980s. Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) evolved primarily out of Joseph Wolpe’s behaviour therapy, introduced in the 1950s, which it gradually combined with elements of Aaron Beck’s Cognitive Therapy (CT), Albert Ellis’ Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), and a number of other influences from the “cognitive
