Many people think of hypnosis as a special type of therapy — hypnotherapy. However, when it comes to psychological interventions like psychotherapy and coaching, I think that hypnosis can usually be better thought of as a tool that is used to facilitate therapy. Just like there are many different styles of psychotherapy which reflect the underlying theories of the clinician, so there are many different ways that hypnosis can be used to treat symptoms and facilitate change. A psychoanalytic psychotherapist would be likely to use dynamically oriented hypnotic techniques, while a cognitive psychotherapist who used hypnosis would be likely to use a form of cognitive hypnosis. » Read the rest of this entry «

David Godot is a licensed psychotherapist currently working in private practice under the supervision of a clinical psychologist in downtown Chicago. He can be reached by phone at (312) 869-2323, or by email at davidgodot@chicagopsychology.org