Welcome To Terry McEwan Hypnotherapy
THE HYPNOTIC APPROACH
In
therapy, using hypnosis, I utilize two approaches: suggestion and
analysis
ANALYSIS
Here we
aim at discovering the cause of the difficulty and deal with that.
"An individual is unable to travel in a car, and this difficulty has recently become worse, spreading to the inability to travel on public transport as well".
The presenting symptoms are claustrophobia, dizziness, nausea, and on the last occasion, vomiting at the mere thought of travelling.
As a result of analysis, it is discovered that at an earlier age (4years), this person had an "accident" in the car (Wet themselves), and tried to hide the "crime" from agitated parents, they had to endure a 2 hour journey, wet, shameful, uncomfortable, smelly and scared, at the consequences of their deed.
The incident is not within the conscious recollection of the individual. (It is not forgotten) It is still there causing the symptom.
Any time the individual approaches a situation, which the subconscious mind perceives as similar, to the originating incident (the car journey) a defence mechanism is activated and the symptom is produced which causes us to avoid the situation. (The role of the symptom is to prevent the re-occurrence of the terrible crime of those years gone by and the subsequent, , shame, discomfort, smell and fear)
This is similar to the fire alarm; it doesn’t ask: is this a pan that is on fire, or a birthday cake with 30 candles. Nor does it ask if this is a small or large fire, it does its job and makes the loudest noise possible.
Once the cause has been discovered then the incident can be viewed from the new perspective. It was a long journey. I was little. Things happen.
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