Interactive hypnosis

Interactive Hypnosis is an innovative way of doing hypnosis developed by Dr. Giulio De Cinti. It does not include the procedures of classical hypnosis: in fact, suggestions are not used for trance induction or to relieve the patient from his problems.

The definition of Interactive Hypnosis starts from the fact that all its methods allow the unconscious to be an active protagonist of the communicative exchange.

The hypnotherapist at any stage of the procedure does not use the suggestions, even though he communicates orally with the patient.

Interactive Hypnosis is produced using the non-verbal channel and it is activated when the patient himself agrees to stop the voluntary response to the questions that are asked and awaits the involuntary response of the unconscious.

 What is Interactive Hypnosis

In this method

• The patient is standing and accepts the invitation to inhibit any voluntary movement.
• The hypnotherapist addresses the unconscious by asking questions to which the person’s unconscious answers “Yes” by moving the patient’s body forward or “No” by bringing it backwards (N.B .: the feet remain still).
• In order to respond to the unconscious, he brings the person into a particular state of trance that allows him to be present and intervene when he deems it appropriate with the conscious mind verbally.
• After manifesting the response, the patient’s body returns to the vertical position.

Some patients, going through every question that is asked to them, enter into a brief hypnotic state that allows them to give an unconscious answer and then immediately after they come out from that state, to finally re-enter it again when the next question is asked. Therefore, they experience a series of short trances just one after the other. Others, on the other hand, in answering to the first question, enter into a state of trance and they wait for the next one until they are told that they are done with the therapy. In both cases they remain vigilant and can easily communicate verbally with the therapist.

In fact, the two channels can also work simultaneously. Therefore, while the unconscious responds through a non-verbal channel, the conscious mind can communicate through a verbal one.

The Interactive Hypnosis allows an effective dialogue with the unconscious, in the sense that the latter is placed in the position of being able to provide non-verbal answers, in which it gets to express something that was not even required in the question asked in the beginning.

 Efficacy of Interactive Hypnosis

The hypnotic technique identified allow to have direct and precise information coming from the unconscious, without the need for interpretation from the therapist. This is a very relevant aspect of this specific therapy. Often in psychology, one speaks improperly of dialogue with the unconscious, as a reading and an interpretation of the involuntary messages of the person – This requires the therapist to read and define which are the involuntary messages that the patients want to express. With the Interactive Hypnosis there is an effective dialogue to the point that the unconscious is able to spell out to give the exact name that it is considered necessary to identify (a specific fear, a desirable goal, etc.).

The staggering back and forth

The identification of the hypnotic method with non-verbal signals is the one which gives particularly effective results to date. For non-verbal responses a specific ideo-motor signal is used: the staggering back and forth.

In this method the patient enters a specific type of hypnotic trance when, standing upright in a conscious state, he is invited to inhibit any voluntary movements to wait for their unconscious and to answer with a “Yes” to the question received, through the forward oscillation of the body, and by saying “No” through the backward swing (it is required that the feet always remain still on the ground).

The patient is present to himself/herself state and they could always sustain a normal conversional with their hypnotherapist.

 Some examples

In the video gallery you will find some demos in which it is shown how the methods of Interactive Hypnosis can be used.

Deep-dive

To deep-dive into the issues of Interactive Hypnosis, the “Restoring with Interactive Hypnosis“ work is now available, in which the theory and methods used together with a large number of illustrative cases are presented.