Hypnotherapy is a psychotherapy method that makes patients in a state similar to sleep through verbal suggestion or hypnosis, and then carries out suggestion or psychoanalysis to treat diseases. It can be divided into direct method (or natural method) and indirect method. The suggestibility of patients and their cooperative attitude and enthusiasm for treatment are the necessary conditions for the success of hypnotherapy.
It refers to a psychotherapy method that hypnotizes patients' consciousness to become extremely narrow and eliminates pathological psychological and physical obstacles with suggestive language. Through hypnosis, people are induced to enter a special state of consciousness, and the words or actions of doctors are integrated into the thoughts and emotions of patients, thus producing therapeutic effects.
Origin and development:
Hao Bin, a famous hypnotherapist in China, divided the development of hypnosis into three periods in his book Hypnosis and Psychological Stress Release: theological era, fluid mechanics era and psychophysiological era.
The earliest application of hypnosis as a therapeutic method was in 1775 by F.A.messmer of Austria. He used magnets as a hypnotic tool and explained the hypnotic mechanism with mysterious animal magnetism.
Until 184 1, james braid, a British surgeon, made a scientific explanation of hypnosis, believing that it was a passive and sleep-like state caused by the healer, and borrowed the Greek word "hypnos" (meaning sleep) and changed it to "hypnopsis" (hypnosis), which has been in use ever since.