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 psychiatrist is able to look into the subconscious where emotions that the patient has experienced, the patient’s memories, and the patient’s imagination are held. 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, in time, help the patient to conquer all of his or her fears, emotional problems, and physical problems such as a type of pain control. In the seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, hypnosis was used very often as an anesthetic during surgery. The patient would not have any other type of anesthetic in his or her body. Donald Jackson states: “Since World War II, it has slipped quietly and discreetly into the clinical mainstream, to the point where the America Medical Association, many HMOs and even Medicare now recognize it” (Jackson 128). A patient has to develop his hypnotic skills in order for the best results possible using hypnotherapy. Hypnosis will help the patient live a much fuller life with new confidence in himself and the world, and will also improve concentration and management skills. The use of this type of therapy can actually spark one’s interest and potential in various activities one engages oneself in that one finds interesting. Hypnosis has also been used during major surgery as an anesthetic with no other anesthetics present. Donald Jackson tells us that psychiatrists, medical doctors, psychologists, and other people who have tried it have used hypnotherapy for two centuries to treat people with different sicknesses and pain (Jackson 127-128). Hypnotherapy can give a patient that is in very bad pain, relief that lasts for a long time. Hypnosis has been reported to give many people that have been through it fe...
