Psychotics & Hypnosis

When treating psychotics, a hypnotherapists approach is in generality no different than with any other type of patient. The only real challenge for the hypnotherapist, is gaining and maintaining the psychotic’s attention, in turn, the gaining of rapport is most crucial.

How do we gain this valuable ingredient of rapport, well, as they say in NLP, we pace, pace, pace, then try to lead, and if the patient doesn’t follow, we continue to pace her behavior, and beliefs until the person begins to follow our lead.

The next most important aspect Milton Erickson speaks of, is working with the person’s emotions, and intellect. He states that people will defend their intellect emotionally, and so he works from this area as he states, “when you understand how man really defends his intellectual ideas and how emotional he gets about it, you should realize that the first thing in psychotherapy is not to try to compel him to change his ideation; rather, you go along with it and change it in a gradual fashion and create situations wherein he himself willingly changes his thinking.”

So, given the above information we:
- Meet the patient on her own level, recognizing and respecting her beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors;
- Create small adjustments within the patient that are consistent with her beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors; and then
- Using the minor new changes from step two above, we elicit behaviors and understanding in such a way that will cause new understanding initiating the desired changes.

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