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What is hypnosis?

Definition of hypnosis:

  • General definition: Hypnosis is a special psychophysiological state induced by suggestion that resembles a dream or a half-dream.

  • American Psychological Association: Hypnosis is a procedure in which a specialist induces changes in a patient's sensations, perceptions, thinking, or behavior.

  • Michael Yapko (hypnosis researcher): "Hypnosis is a focused experience of absorbing attention that activates personal resources to achieve change."

  • Raikov's concept: Hypnosis is a form of increased mental readiness to perceive, process information and perform actions. It is an altered state of consciousness with increased controllability of body functions.

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Hypnotherapy: the essence and mechanisms

How it works:

  • In hypnosis, the patient gains access to the subconscious mind, repressed traumas and internal conflicts.

  • An opportunity to get rid of inefficient thinking patterns, activate creative thinking and internal resources.

Hypnoanalysis:

  • A hypnotherapy technique that includes regressive hypnosis - a return to the past in order to recall and realize stressful events.

  • Hypnocatharsis: re-experiencing the trauma and releasing the anxiety associated with it by creating a safe therapeutic environment.

Myths about hypnosis and scientific refutations

Prejudices are common:

  • A person in hypnosis seems to become unwilling and controlled by the hypnotist.

  • It is believed that hypnosis can make a person commit a crime.

Rebuttal:

  • A person retains awareness and the ability to control himself.

  • Dr. Jacob Kohn (Johns Hopkins University) has not found a single documented case of hypnosis leading to a crime in 150 years of medical history.

The healing potential of hypnosis

Positive impact:

  • Strengthening the ability to deal with difficulties.

  • Improved mental and physical health.

  • Overcoming bad habits and treating psychosomatic disorders.

Examples of effects on the body:

  • Reducing blood calcium levels by suggestion.

  • Increase or decrease in sugar levels depending on the content of the suggestion (even without actual consumption of sugar/honey).


Ketamine psychotherapy

  • It is used for patients who have difficulty entering the state of hypnosis, or when deep hypnosis analysis is required.

  • It is conventionally called medication hypnosis.

Hypnotherapy specialists at the EXPIO center

Vladyslav Matrenytskyi:

  • PhD in Medicine, Director of the EXPIO Center.

  • Student of Dr. Vitaliy Yevtushenko and Yuriy Bichonsky (School of Analytical and Cognitive Hypnotherapy, SACH).

  • He developed his own method of emotional and metaphorical hypnotherapy.

  • In 2015, he gave a presentation at the International Congress on Hypnosis in Paris.

Daria Shaposhnyk-Dominska:

  • D. in psychology, crisis psychologist, hypnotherapist.

  • Education: S. Greenwald School (Kharkiv), Eastern European Association of Hypnotherapists, practice of shock hypnosis.

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