HYPNOSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Hypnosis is a consciousness between sleep and wakefulness, which concentrates attention and increases the ability to take suggestions. Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, is the therapy process under hypnosis. Psychotherapy is the name given to the techniques and methods applied to the solution of the emotional, behavioral, and psychological problems of the patient. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, also started with hypnosis. Both methods are used in many diseases such as eating disorder, panic attack, trauma, addiction, sexual dysfunction, and social phobia. Over time, both methods evolved and new practitioners, theories and methods emerged. Hypnotherapy methods include direct suggestion, erickson method, parts therapy, andfive path and regression hypnotherapy.Examples of psychotherapy methods are dynamic psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapies, gestalt, body therapies, schema therapy, cognitive therapy, behavior therapy.From time to time, practitioners of both methods have been criticized by other methods. Psychotherapy has been criticized for reasons such as the long duration of the psychotherapy and the patient s leaving the therapy in the midst of the process while hypnotherapy was accused of not having permanent affects or just causing a symptom change and the possibility that it may leadthe patient to a psychotic attack.The most important problem according to the hypnotherapist is that the psychotherapist takes a more passive role in the therapy process.According to the psychotherapist, the hypnotherapist appeals to the patient with the parental ego, and the patient is obliged to respond with the child s ego.Both therapies are quite different methods, but they are trying to achieve the same result (healing). By using these differences together, it is considered that the effectiveness of both methods can be increased. The therapy process can alternate constantly and is filled with resistance. When the therapists see and recognise the resistance, incorporating another method into the process will contribute to healing. As a result, regardless of the fact that which method is used, behavioral hypnotherapy or psychotherapy is required to regulate the patient’s life after the problem has disappeared.