Thoughts/Experiences with Hypnotherapy

Bottle_of_Smoke

All my life I've been appauling with study. Good with exam technique but always leave everything to the last minute.

Started college last year and passed first year but only very barely on one subject. Every year I tell myself "I'll study properly next year" but I just know it won't happen.

I'm wondering if hypnotherapy might help. When I actually do the study at the last minue I actually kind of enjoy it and think "wow this is really interesting I wish I'd learnt this properly...."

Anyone used hypnotherapy? Was amazed how well it worked on my 9 year old cousin, completely cured of her fear of flying after my aunt's friend gave her one session.

Opinions on it also welcome.

di11on

Rather than having someone manipulate you (probably for good) while unconscious, why not have a stab at dealing with the underlying issues while you're conscious instead?

No harm seeing a professional. We need to understand and look after our minds just as much as every other part of us.

Surely worth a try before you go the hypnosis route!

Odysseus

Do a search on within the psychology forum, its a topic that pops up often enough. My own opinion as a therapist is the level of training within Ireland for hypnotherapy is quite poor on that basis alone I wouldn't recommend it, that is without considering any problems I have with it as a therapy. However, that's merely my opinion, do the search and you should get both sides of the coin.

hotspur

Firstly as to whether hypnotherapy is efficacious at all then the answer is clearly yes it is. It is potentially effective for a wide range of issues from the usually simple issues of habit changing to psychotherapeutic and medical applications. In the latter it is more of hypnosis being a tool rather than a therapy in and of itself.

Secondly specifically for studying it is a potentially very effective tool for that. In fact it is probably the quickest, easiest, and best route for that. Other brief therapeutic modalities like motivational interviewing or CBT are probably best reserved for bigger issues

Odysseus's point is a valid one in that the majority of hypnotherapists in this country are lay hypnotherapists. That is certainly an issue if one wanted to alleviate, say, depression as one would want somebody with a deeper psychotherapeutic background.

But for relatively simple stuff like motivating and altering your habits around studying then I think it's fine to go to a lay hypnotherapist and it's quite probable that you will get good results.

I have been hypnotised a fair bit and hypnotised others through training in clinical hypnotherapy, it does work and the experience of your cousin losing a phobia easily is very typical.

I'm not sure if you are in this forum because you are inclined towards science, if so there's an excellent book by Michael Yapko called "Trancework: an introduction to the practice of clinical hypnosis".

Hypnotherapy is self regulated in Ireland and you have two organisations which train and accredit it - Irish Hypnotherapy Association and Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy.

The latter has been around longer but discredits the psychotherapy profession by calling adding the term "psychotherapy" to their diploma, there is absolutely no equivalence to any reputable and externally accredited psychotherapy course, it's just a hypnotherapy course tbh and as such I am less inclined towards that organisation as it diminishes the effort of those of us who have taken the time to train properly in psychotherapy.But its members should be fine for helping you with studying.

imported_guy

paul mckenna's tapes did feck all for me, and im not sure how this is related to biology and medicine.

JuliusCaesar

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Good with exam technique but always leave everything to the last minute.

Procrastination.....is the thief of time. (And don't I know it - what am I doing on boards at this hour when there's more important things I could be doing?!) Link to one of many ddiscussions & advice on the Psychology forum