**6.2 Non-state theories**

*Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis*

**6. Theories**

**6.1 State theories**

different ego states.

**Future pacing (mental rehearsal):** It is kind of visualization where the subject can prepare himself/herself for success and realization of his/her goals by overcom-

A comprehensive theory of hypnosis should cover both cognitive and interpersonal terms. Throughout twentieth century the theories about hypnosis have been

DCT claims that normally driving habitual behaviors can be influenced outside of conscious awareness without executive control. According to Ego-state theorists, clinicians can promote behavioral change by hypnosis, and have conversations with

High hypnotizables respond voluntarily dissociated from conscious awareness. *The school of* Gerald Brassine *of Belgium has considered hypnosis not only a question of words nor the result of suggestion, but the product of the use of imagery or memories of the person, having a lot of implicit consequences and practical attitudes in the practice, and being natural product of many different things including choc (trauma) days dreaming and psychotherapeutic hypnosis. The hypnotic relationship would develop more easily if the therapist demonstrates that the patient is the only " producer" of this state. In such an equal relationship, the hypnotist becomes a facilitator helping the patient to develop a state of trance, but he/she can reject or come out of it anytime if he/she does not want. This comprehension would facilitate a deep state of hypnosis during which the patient feels as " the boss" of the hypnotic situation, in which he/she does not lose but gains control of his/her emotions and sensations on his/her autonomous nervous system (a psychosomatic control over extremely painful diseases) with the help or assistance of the hypnotist in a cooperative venture. If the therapist understands and acts on this principle at all time, and explains and offers to the patient the knowledge that he/she can produce this phenomenon, the patient would be much more eager to try the proposed possibilities (all classical hypnotic phenomena) and this type of therapist would be much more efficient than any other who just believes that his/her speaking (use of word) and techniques are responsible for the trance of the patient. (It is not far from the Mesmerian conception of animal magnetism or later hypnosis considered as the fruit of the genius suggestions of a therapist). In practice, the emphasis should be on what the patient does* 

*In the school of* Gerald Brassine *of Belgium, the thought and practice of PTR (Psychotherapie du Trauma Réassociative) is willing to bring the patient in a state of hypnosis by using what is called utilizational hypnosis. It means that the therapist eases the patient to develop and use a trance state in a constant exchange. This comprehension or conceptualization of hypnosis (the result of the use of memory or imaginative capacities) is building an equalitarian form of relationship in which the patient* 

**Hilgard's Neodissociation Theory** entails a division in consciousness.

ing the potential obstacles through future options [33–35].

between "state" vs. "non-state" theories.

*6.1.1 Dissociated control theory (DCT)*

*6.1.2 Dissociated-experience theory*

*and says and not what the therapist says and does.*

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