George Pegios
George Pegios - Specialist in Clinical Hypnosis, which is a natural and effective technique to access the subconscious mind. He has the ability to create mental programs that help us organize our experience to achieve our goals.
George Pegios -Hypnosis as a tool in cognitive behavioral therapy
Hypnosis as a tool in cognitive behavioral therapy
Hypnosis is a tool that can be used in cognitive behavioral therapy.
There is a process of hopelessness that leads the patient to request therapy. In this process, the patient realizes that, despite all the efforts he is making, he cannot get out of the problem he has and that he needs to ask an expert for help. In this process of feeling hopelessness, solutions that do not require effort, such as hypnosis, have a special attraction for the patient, because he feels unable to do anything by himself to solve his problem.
However, hypnosis is not a therapy, it is only an aid or auxiliary tool, in all therapies, including cognitive behavioral therapy.
From a clinical perspective, hypnosis can be considered as the group of techniques that formally and deliberately use the suggestion to cause changes in the behavior of individuals.
Changes that must be framed within the perspective that cognitive behavioral therapy can provide.
The fundamental basis of hypnosis is suggestion; in fact, hypnosis consists of the responses given by the hypnotized to the hypnotist's suggestions.
In the hypnotic process, the patient follows the suggestions given to him, leaving the hypnotist in full control of his behavior.
In cognitive behavioral therapy we make indications that could be considered constantly suggestions.
We suggest to our patients, for example, that they change a certain way of behaving. For this we use direct suggestion or metaphors and indirect suggestions.
According to the latest advances in cognitive behavioral therapy, for example acceptance and commitment therapy, it is not appropriate for the patient to blindly follow what the therapist's rules are. Ideally, he himself discovers the consequences of behaving like this. Therefore, you are always asked to check the consequences of the suggested changes.
Although following the suggestions hypnotically is not an adequate method in cognitive behavioral therapy; however, in hypnosis there is a process in which the patient abandons the conscious control of his behavior and the acceptance and commitment therapy aims to stop trying to control processes that are not controllable, for example anxiety, sleep, etc. .
Abandoning control is an interesting process for cognitive behavioral therapy, not to leave it to the therapist, but to let the patient's own automatic processes work.
For this reason, self-hypnosis is of special interest, that is, the process by which the two roles come together in the same person: hypnotized and hypnotist.
In this process, the person has total control over what he wants to do, but he executes it in such a way that he has the feeling of not doing it voluntarily.
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George Pegios -Hypnosis as a tool in cognitive behavioral therapy
By George Pegios
George Pegios -Hypnosis as a tool in cognitive behavioral therapy
Hypnosis as a tool in cognitive behavioral therapy Hypnosis is a tool that can be used in cognitive behavioral therapy. There is a process of hopelessness that leads the patient to request therapy. In this process, the patient realizes that, despite all the efforts he is making, he cannot get out of the problem he has and that he needs to ask an expert for help. In this process of feeling hopelessness, solutions that do not require effort, such as hypnosis, have a special attraction for the patient, because he feels unable to do anything by himself to solve his problem.
