Confusion technique
As confusion technique is referred to in the hypnosis a technique for introducing a hypnotic state where the Hypnotiseur creates a confusion when Hypnotisanden. This is done with different means, e.g. B. by surprisingly interrupting social stereotypes such as shaking hands, or verbally with the help of a senseless speech that initially gives the impression that you can follow it, but then overloads the other person with instructions or empty phrases. Confusion techniques are already reported by Charcot and were e.g. B. used extensively by Milton Erickson . This method is indicated as the method of choice for particularly rigid, critical or intellectual people, such as mathematicians, chemists, lawyers, medical professionals, etc. It is contraindicated for florid psychoses .
Example of a verbal confusion technique over time:
- “And our experience is of course determined by the past, and when we sit back and look back, the present is a future that can still be changed, although this past future, which now seems so unchangeable, may be easier to experience in the future changeable and positively influenceable shows ... "
Example of a verbal confusion technique about reality:
- “In the reality of everyday life, we want everything to be as clear and logical as possible in order to understand ourselves and the world, and the dream world, with its bizarre, confused images often seems completely incomprehensible to us, although we often have the impression that something is happening here understand that is impossible to capture in the words of logic. In doing so, we often experience the reality of the dream much more real than the reality of everyday life, which may be distorted, while the apparently distorted reality of dreams completely clearly without make-up reflects the important reality that is hidden in its reality of the apparent reality of the waking state in everyday life, covered with the cloak of reality of logic, which in its reality is more unreal than the reality of the dream, whose apparent unreality offers a realistic access to the distorted perception of our personality, where there are also desires, longings, which are in the unreal, distorted reality of everyday life, and which we do not perceive ... "
Sources and individual references
- ↑ Dirk Revenstorf, Burkhard Peter: Hypnosis in psychotherapy, psychosomatics and medicine: Manual for practice . Springer, October 23, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-24584-1 , pp. 213-4.
literature
- Bärbel Bongartz, Walter Bongartz: Hypnotherapy . 2nd edition. Hogrefe Verlag für Psychologie, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-8017-1321-0 .