Hypnoanalysis

Within this essay I will endeavour to explain the cause of Mr P’s symptoms and construct a hypnoanalysis treatment plan and required outcome through an initial consultation, looking at possible treatments and through these come up with a treatment plan taking into consideration any ethical issues that may arise.

The Initial consultation:

Mr P is a male who is 35 years of age. During the initial consultation Mr P indicated that he is currently working as an IT contractor and is successful in his job. He would like to settle down and get married but battles with anxiety when it comes to relationships. He said that ‘he battles to allow himself to love and be loved’ and that relationships that go deeper than friendships usually bring about stress and anxiety. Upon asking Mr P about his childhood he indicated that he had a happy and stable childhood up until he was 12. Around this time his parents started to argue and after a short while his parents got a divorce. After the divorce he saw his dad less and less. Mr P later realised that his dad had an affair and went off and started a new family. Mr P has only recently remembered that his father was never there for him, not there when he did well at sports, when he finished school or when he graduated from university. On the other hand his mom continued to give him a stable and loving upbringing but he felt that his dad was not there for him. Upon further assessment I found Mr P’s modality to be kinaesthetic and that he would more than likely like an authoritarian screed.

Upon assessing Mr initial consultation it seems that Mr P has a simple cumulative trauma – this is where there is a repetition of a negative idea or situation, in this case Mr P’s father been absent throughout, according to Mr P, moments in his life. In a simple cumulative trauma, which often occurs in childhood, the child will simply not be able to consciously argue with a repetitive statement about themselves, in this case Mr P’s father been absent, and thus take the information into their belief system .

Possible treatments

To tackle Mr P’s current state of emotions that are causing him to feel a failure with regard to relationships, we need to explore various therapies that could help him to undo the damage done in his childhood and also put his life into perspective, focusing on self-worth and letting go of any thoughts of self-blame.

Mr P’s concern of a relationship not working out form part of the anxiety/stress group, where his personality has taken on bad habits leading to an inability to hold down a significant relationship for any length of time.

Mr P has possibly been using Repression (repression is kind of fogetting, it pushes something away so that it does not create intense anxiety in the immediate present ) as an Ego Defense Mechanism (EDM). EDM’s are seen as strategies that humans use to deal with anxiety that is largely unconscious . Mr P until recently has not really remembered his father not been present at all the significant events in his life after he had left. Mr P has possibly spent his life looking for a father figure and has a fear of relationships going wrong due to the marital split of his parents which has caused anxiety in his own relationships.

We need to help Mr P to:

• To increase his confidence, self-esteem and his belief in himself

• Remove any negative programming he acquired during his early teens

• Lay to rest the unhappy child that she clearly was and heal the wounds

• Come to terms with his father’s departure from his life which Mr P has seemed to have swept under the carpet until recently.

• To help him to understand relationships, not to look back at his parents’ marriage as a foundation for his relationships.

There are various hypnoanalysis techniques that we can use and employ with the aid of hypnosis to help Mr P to deal with his past and come to give him the self confidence he needs to move on with his life. There are various hypnoanalysis techniques that we can use with the aid of hypnosis to help Mr P deal with his past, come to terms with who he is today having made a peace with his past self, and be prepared to move on with his life without the emotional baggage of his father leaving him and his mother that has weighed him down almost all her life. They are namely:

1. Accessing Emotions

2. Free Association

3. Inner Child Therapy

4. Regression

1) Accessing Emotions

While Mr P has understood to a certain degree how his early life has shaped his current world especially since him remembering his father not present at significant moments in his life, he will still have emotions buried in him that he would need to bring to the surface and deal with to be able to move on. Using this technique will enable him to get in touch with those hidden feelings and allow him to express these in an unforced manner. In order to do this Mr P will need to in a relaxed state which does not necessarily have to be complete hypnosis. The therapist then will start to as ask Mr P questions which he needs to respond to. The therapist starts off with easy questions like the ‘weather today is?’ and