admin There is no legal definition of hypnosis anywhere in the world.
Below, I have included quotes from many experts who have achieved reputation with their practice and writings on hypnotism. Each of them has attempted to define hypnotism and none of them agree.
Hypnotherapy is not taught in universities. In fact, most professors in universities still deny that there is a vocational title of “hypnotherapist.” They still say that hypnotherapy is only a ‘tool’ that licensed mental health therapists use as one of many “techniques”.
I describe the study of hypnotherapy a ‘mystic art’. Let me illustrate: Millions of people take piano lessons and a percentage of them learn to play well enough to entertain their family and friends. An even smaller percentage learn to play well enough to earn income at weddings or at an elegant restaurant. A smaller …
A high percentage of hypnotherapists really don’t deserve the title “hypnotherapist” because their only approach to therapy is to create a trance and give suggestions. Many of them aren’t even structuring the suggestions appropriately.
Many people think of hypnosis and hypnotherapy purely to break habits such as cigarette smoking, or to help them control appetite as in weight reduction or to overcome fingernail biting. It is very useful on all these applications, but I have always been much more interested in changing the underlying fixed ideas that have been acquired, especially in childhood. These ideas become fixed and control behavior in specific areas of a person’s expression and life style, often throughout a lifetime.