A personalised induction will always be more effective?
The main parts of a hypnosis screed are induction, deepener and the hipnotic suggestions. It depends of the therapists whether they personalise one or more parts of the screed or not. Both decision have their own benefit, while personalisation is suspecious at building a good relationship with a patient and may enchance the successe of the session, a non-personalised screed quicklier, more categorical and like this may save a lot of time for therapist and patient. The conselling and therapeutic approach must be suitable not only for the patient but the therapist as well, otherwise the whole screed going to be strained, unnatural and most likely unsuccessful. There are many different approaches and everyone of them have advantage, so anyone can find the therapist who match to their expectations. However if a therapist is ready to provide a flexible approximation and willing to develop the therapeutic approch to the patient instead of try to form the patient to their own therapy will attract more future patient.
A number of patients have an unreal fear of hypnosis resting on misbeliefs or fals informations and expectations. In this case personalisation adviseable by all until patients anxiety is eliminated.
In some special cases inductions and screeds should not be personalised. For instance group therapies, audio or audiovisual carriers (CDs, MP3s, DVDs,) or educational materials. In these cases more general is more useful.
Hypnotic induction is the preliminary part of a hypnotic session, consists of a series of instructions which leads into hypnotic trance where the effective therapy can get started. As such it plays an important role in the whole procedure, the success of the therapy may depend on the right choice of an induction technique carried out by the therapist.
There is a huge variety of different hypnotic inductions, however most of
References: Pete Sanders: First Step in Counselling Robin Waterfield: Hidden Depths Hellmut W.A. Karle, Jennifer H. Boys: Hypnotherapy Josie Hadley, Carol Staudacher: Hypnosis for Change