lking to the therapist and the therapist in turn will not speak for lengthy periods of time. A patient’s refusal to talk may stem from past events that have been brought up in conversation. Transference is another problem that sometimes occurs through the course of the therapy. This problem occurs when the patient feels certain strong emotions towards the therapist. Josef Breuer was the first therapist to record this type of situation. Anna O was a patient of Breuer's who had been “deeply attached to her father and had nursed him during his illness until she became bedridden with severe hysterical symptoms”(Hunt, 172). Certain emotions can be either a strong feeling of love, or a strong feeling of hate (Antrobus). “The analysis of transference is a way of investigating and verifying hypotheses about the unconscious motivations behind inexplicable behavior”(Hunt178). Psychoanalytic therapy is successful for the patient as soon as the patient is comfortable with himself in relation to their feelings. Achieving complete recovery can take a lifetime. Through diligent work, however, a person may be able to return to his normal, healthy state of mind and life. Hypnotherapy is another form of therapy that uses the subconscious and dreaming to understand and analyze what the patient’s problem could be. Using hypnosis, a therapist may be able to look into the subconscious. The subconscious also holds the feelings that one has relating to the person’s place that they hold in the world. This type of therapy can help the patient to confront his or her fears, emotional problems, and physical problems. Scrutiny of hypnotherapy can be seen in a number of findings by Elizabeth Loftus. Although Loftus’s research focused on eyewitness testimony, much of what she discovered can be taken into consideration in regards to hypnosis. In her research she found that the way a sentence is phrased could directly affe...
