Clinical self-hypnosis: Transformation and subjectivity.

Abstract

In recent years, clinical self-hypnosis has become an important adjunct to psychotherapy (Sanders, 1991). Because there is great diversity in the way that self-hypnosis is implemented, conceptualized, and taught, the potential of self-hypnosis can be realized most fully when the therapist samples its varied applications in clinical situations (Sanders, 1991). No one approach is universally hailed as being superior to others, nor is there one that is consistently taught as the best self-hypnosis method (Crasilneck