Some individualized hypnotherapeutic techniques

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Abstract
Clinical cases are used to illustrate the opportunities for adapting a rich variety of hypnotic approaches and manipulations to the therapeutic needs and the hypnotic capabilities of different patients. Spontaneous and suggested phenomena occurring during and after hypnosis are utilized to uncover and discover conflicts and defenses, to analyze and synthesize, to test reality, to exploit transference, to supply emotional support, and to trigger corrective emotional experiences. The “palette” includes emotional abreactions, visualizations, dissociative experiences, multisensory hallucinations, age regression and progression, induction of fantasies and dreams, as well as space, time, and other perceptual distortions. Case reports are presented in detail, with significant excerpts from therapeutic sessions. The rationale for the utilization of specific manipulations is discussed and clarified.

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