Understanding Hypnosis: What is the Difference Between Hypnosis and Psychotherapy?

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What is the Difference Between Hypnosis and Psychotherapy?

Hypnosis uses trance, suggestion and instruction in self-hypnosis to adjust and correct unwanted habits of thought, feeling and behavior. Psychotherapy is the diagnosis and conversational treatment of mental disease. In other words, a psychotherapist treats people who have been diagnosed with some type of mental illness while hypnosis addresses the habits of normal people wishing to improve their lives. The term "hypnotherapy", in most cases, is reserved for psychotherapists who integrate hypnotic techniques into the work they do with people who have emotional and mental disorders. Quite often this can decrease the time a person needs to spend in therapy.

Although every therapist who creates hypnosis programs for The Hypnosis Network is qualified to perform psychotherapy, the CDs on this site are “hypnosis” and not “hypnotherapy” meaning that they are not a substitute for therapy.

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