| Hypnosis Examiners since 1980 The IICH was created in 1980 to provide existing trainers and practitioners of hypnosis with the extra skills and training necessary to improve the practice of hypnosis at the private level and to increase public awareness of hypnosis as an effective therapy. Professional hypnosis and hypnotherapy training… We only recommend the best hypnosis and hypnotherapy courses. Please contact us for an accredited trainer in your area. Monitoring Hypnosis Training All hypnotists and instructors accredited by the IICH have been vetted and are guaranteed to be of the very highest standard. The mission of the IICH is to: encourage the training of new practitioners of hypnosis and hypnotherapy and to increase the worldwide awareness of the benefits of hypnosis. |
The British Medical Association (BMA) in their 1892 Report on Hypnotism officially recognised Hypnosis: “The Committee, having completed such investigation of hypnotism as time permitted, have to report that they have satisfied themselves of the genuineness of the hypnotic state. ” The Committee also acknowledged that “as a therapeutic agent hypnotism is frequently effective in relieving pain, procuring sleep, and alleviating many functional ailments.”In 1955, a follow up report was commissioned which endorsed the findings of the original 1892 Committee and added the conclusions that “hypnotism is of value and may be the treatment of choice in some cases of so-called psycho-somatic disorders and psychoneuroses. It may also be of value for revealing unrecognised motives and conflicts in such conditions. As a treatment, in the opinion of the Subcommittee it has proved its ability to remove symptoms and to alter morbid habits of thought and behaviour… In addition to the treatment of psychiatric disabilities, there is a place for hypnotism in the production of anaesthesia or analgesia for surgical and dental operations and in suitable subjects it is an effective method of relieving pain in childbirth without altering the normal course of labour.” |
Contrary to popular belief, Hypnosis IS NOT an altered state of consciousness. It is a perfectly natural state that we have all experienced many times before. We all pass through a hypnotic state at least twice a day. The physical feeling is one of ‘dozing’, similar to what we have all experienced in the ‘twilight zone’ between being fully conscious (awake) and falling into unconsciousness (falling asleep) at night. We pass through this state as we fall asleep at night and before we are fully awake in the morning. It is a sort of no-mans-land between consciousness and unconsciousness.This ‘hypnotic state’ can be artificially induced using verbal suggestion, or verbal direction.It is during this state that the mind becomes far more open to suggestion. It is suggestion that can alter both perception and behaviour. This is a natural facet of the human condition. |