In talking with other hypnotherapists and psychotherapists it’s clear that many have only a small range of techniques and interventions to draw upon. We believe it’s important that hypnotherapists and psychotherapists have a wide range of interventions (treatment elements) to draw upon … Continue reading
Category Archives: Suggestion
This short article outlines a variety of classical rhetorical figures of speech and how they relate to the use of language in psychological therapies and hypnotism.
Continue readingAn old article from 1998 describing the early Freudian psychoanalytic theory of hypnotism in some technical detail.
Continue readingExcerpts from the writings of James Braid showing the founder of hypnotherapy highlighting the contradictions between hypnotism and homoeopathy, which he attacks as a pseudoscientific and nostrum (“quack”) remedy.
Continue readingThis is a brief excerpt from the new book, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which describes the relationship between Émile Coué’s emthod of “conscious autosuggestion” and the maxims of ancient philosophical traditions.
Continue readingA brief snippet explaining some basic research findings which have consistently provided support for cognitive-behavioural hypnosis researchers’ rejection of the notion of “hypnotic trance” and the emphasis on ordinary cognitive factors in hypnosis instead.
Continue readingThis article outlines the basic rules of suggestion employed in traditional hypnotherapy and explains the rationale for using them in plain English.
Continue readingThe influential James-Lange theory of emotion has a precursor in the “muscular suggestion” technique of James Braid, the founder of hypnotherapy. This article explores how Braid used hypnosis “from the outside in” to evoke subjective responses to physical manipulation.
Continue readingThis is an excerpt from The Discovery of Hypnosis: The Complete Writings of James Braid (2009) which provides a brief outline of Braid’s original theory of hypnotic suggestion.
Continue readingThis short piece outlines the self-hypnosis method of “symbol suggestion” as found in hypnotherapy and developed by the followers of Emile Coue.
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