Thanks Rob. As someone new to the field, I've been fascinated to find so many Hypnotherapists who say you can't do a session without initiating some sort of hypnotic "proof" like an arm raise or hand stick. This doesn't seem to have any therapeutic value to me, and feels like the therapist is either lacking confidence in their own abilities or that they require some type of demonstration from the client that they have entered what the therapist would consider to be a trance state. Do you think there is any therapeutic value in these types of "demonstrations of trance"?
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Thanks Rob. As someone new to the field, I've been fascinated to find so many Hypnotherapists who say you can't do a session without initiating some sort of hypnotic "proof" like an arm raise or hand stick. This doesn't seem to have any therapeutic value to me, and feels like the therapist is either lacking confidence in their own abilities or that they require some type of demonstration from the client that they have entered what the therapist would consider to be a trance state. Do you think there is any therapeutic value in these types of "demonstrations of trance"?
Malcolm, for me, evidence is required only if it is useful for the client, not the therapist.
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