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Originally Posted by GrayNess
All disorders, including psychological disorders from depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and whatever else have a biological component to them. Hypnosis is basically a way to get the person to relax enough but still stay awake. Perhaps the person may feel better after a session of hypnosis but I don't see it as fixing the biological components which affect the behavior of the person. It may be like going through some watery mist on a very hot day, it feels good for a bit but afterward you're sweating away again and baking in the heat.
The thing with hypnosis is that the client must be willing to go with it. When you first put someone under hypnosis (tried a bit on my friends just to experiment), the person is alert and awake. You have to get them to be more and more and more relaxed. However, you're very unlikely to get a person to think they're a chicken or do something that is completely against their morals. That being said, you're also not very likely to change the biological component of disorders through hypnosis.
You can do hypnosis just by talking or you can do it using candles. Either way, you need a good amount of time and need a willing person.
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i actualy disagree on both counts
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it is more difficult, yes, to hypnotise someone who is not willing to 'go under', but that is not to say it is impossible. master hypnotherapists can do it with the most unwilling subjects, and get them to do things like act like a chicken, or things they would otherwise find repulsive (lick the floor). it takes a certain amount of skill & mastery, however. so it's not the case that you need a good amount of time (unless an hour or two is excessive?) nor that you need a willing person.
the other part - about "all" psychological disorders having a biological component... that may very well be true, but it's not the case that you thereby need to change the biological component (in all cases) to cure the disorder. the success of approaches like CBT to treat anxiety & depressive disorders attests to this. at most, all that researchers have been able to show is that certain people have biological vulnerabilities to specific disorders - but this is in no way predictive of actually developing a specific disorder, or even developing any psychological disorder at all! so if people with biological vulnerabilities do not develop psychological disorders, then it isn't necessary to "fix" this component in order to cure the disorder.
for what it's worth, however - in relation to OP - i personally wouldn't want to try hypnotherapy. i know it has been very successful for some ppl (particularly those wanting to break addictions) but i don't think it's been studied enough as an exact science, or that the people who practice it (in australia, anyway) have enough training to know how to use it effectively & appropriately.