A brilliant psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, in his book called, The Politics of the Family, wrote “the clinical hypnotherapist usually knows what he is doing. The family hypnotherapist rarely does.” That means simply, the parent’s attitudes, statements, labels, directions and instructions are as influential on the child as the hypnotist’s suggestions and directions are to someone in a deep hypnotic trance.
The Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Many experts believe that there are only two main approaches to the induction of hypnosis; paternal and maternal, or authoritarian and permissive but that’s a meaningless concept which has no connection with this work as I teach it. The “Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy” is the title of a paper that was presented In the journal …