ABSTRACT
As stated before in chapter 5, the hypnotherapist begins the treatment of most patients by employing symptomatic, hypnodynamic, (hypnoanalytically oriented) approaches, or both. If these short-term approaches work, they will save the patient time and money. If they do not work, the therapist may decide to use hypnoanalysis, a relatively long-term treatment. It is modified psychoanalysis conducted while the patient, at least for part of the time, is in the hypnotic state (25% to 70% of the total treatment time). Because hypnosis enables the patient to make contact more easily with unconscious material and also intensifies the transference, hypnoanalysis works faster than psychoanalysis alone. What can be accomplished in psychoanalysis in 3 years usually can be done in hypnoanalysis in 1 year.
