ABSTRACT
One of the questions routinely asked of experts in clinical hypnosis concerns the relationship between clinical hypnosis and other experiential approaches. Clinicians ask, “How is hypnosis similar to (or different from) what I already do?” There are many, many different therapy and self-help techniques that employ relaxation, imagery, self-suggestions, the focusing and defocusing of attention, detachment, altered states, and other such experiences that seem to share some overlap with clinical hypnosis. These are just a few of the more popular ones: mindfulness (also frequently called mindful meditation), visualization, guided imagery, autogenic training (AT), some forms of yoga, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
