INFORMATION CENTER: THE MYTH

The hypnotherapist very often has to deal with the “myth factor” with prospective clients. It began with the advent of stage hypnosis for entertainment. Watching someone who would flap their arms and quack like a duck is enough to make any one pause. As a result there are few therapies in which so much nonsense has been accepted as folk wisdom. I list but a small sampling:

“Hypnosis will prove you are weak minded.”
“Hypnosis will prove you are not really intelligent.”
“Hypnosis can make you do things you don’t want to do.”

All of the above statements are false. The answers, carefully researched by the American Medical Association and the British Association of Physicians and Surgeons, are exactly the opposite. Both of these august bodies approved hypnosis as a therapeutic modality over 50 years ago.