Therapeutic hypnosis has little resemblance to the known entertainers on entertaining events in common. Almost everyone knows the fear of test anxiety, pain or fear, to fail. These fears are so stressful, that mental disorders can develop from it for quite a few people. Fear psychosis are now relatively common in Germany and contribute to a considerable illness and high health-care costs. To eliminate the fears requires often lengthy treatments. An approach is to affect the patients, by means of hypnosis that he though fears still perceives his fears are always a warning signal of the psyche but no longer feel stressful.

On the contrary, the fears to be true taken, but also overcome. This overcoming helps the person concerned to a greater self esteem, which in turn helps in tackling the fears. A virtuous circle. As diverse as the fears, which occur can, individually, so the therapy must be adapted. You can certainly apply broad everywhere equal. However, the therapy on the affected must be tailored to achieve maximum success. An important component of this is the trust between therapists and patients, in particular, wen it comes to hypnosis, but many people have the image of the show hypnotist in the head. This hypnosis has however nothing to do with the therapeutic hypnosis.

Show hypnosis plays with expectations and overconfidence. Hypnosis applied to healing is based on participation of the hypnotic and whose willingness to engage on the hypnotist. This is possible only with absolute confidence. Another factor is the fear of the people to give up control over themselves and to be remote-controlled. But also here an image of hypnosis shows completely wrong because hypnosis treatments can not be based on mind control. Otherwise they would not be effective, because rebel again and again, however, the psyche and negate the treatment success would. Hypnosis is so much more than a show used for entertainment but a serious instrument of treatment, not only in psychology. Andreas Mettler