One version of this process involves the client’s developing a hierarchy of fear triggers with the phobia/fear at the top and a very pleasant scene at the bottom. In hypnosis, the client is asked to alternate a number of times the phobia scene with the pleasant scene (which lasts longer than the former) until desensitization from the unpleasant scene occurs. If the phobia is more deeply entrenched, Hypnotic Parts Therapy and Regression might be in order; in other cases its source may be dealt with through Past-Life Therapy. Post-Hypnotic Suggestions and Self-Hypnosis continue to enhance the outcome.
This process is categorized as Hypnotic Parts Therapy.
About Hypnotic Parts Therapy
Ever since Freud conceptualized the tri-partite division of the psyche as the Id, Superego and Ego, many other therapies have worked with a parts-orientation. These include, among others, Carl Jung’s Active Imagination, Transactional Analysis, Inner Child Work, Voice Dialogue, Gestalt Underdog and Top Dog, Analytical Parts Therapy, and Moore’s Lover/Magician/King/Warrior.
The intention of all of these versions of parts therapy is to give expression to otherwise suppressed or alienated voices/attitudes within the psyche and then integrate them with the hitherto dominant viewpoint. When utilized, these parts therapies are in themselves hypnotic; but they are greatly enhanced in effect with the deepening of formal hypnosis. Any of the parts therapies listed above may be used in the services offered here.
