At our Hypnosis Center we provide assistance to patients suffering from various fears and phobias. Our center conducts treatment of fears with hypnosis in St. Petersburg. Hypnotherapy sessions have an effective effect on a person who cannot overcome himself and cope with his own phobias.
The human subconscious is responsible for emotional reactions. Therefore, people are unable to overcome feelings even when they understand that there is no real reason to worry. It is possible to suppress inappropriate emotional reactions through hypnotherapy.
While under the influence of hypnosis, a person opens access to his subconscious. In this state, it does not resist external influences, thanks to which we can correct the patient’s behavior, relieving him of fears and phobias.
People turn to our center when they encounter manifestations of uncontrollable panic. We recommend starting the treatment of fears and phobias with hypnosis at the first such attacks. Not only do they bring significant discomfort to a person’s life, but attacks of uncontrollable panic indicate the emergence of phobias.
The effectiveness of treatment depends on the timeliness of treatment. It is important to remember that it is easier to eliminate the manifestation of fear than phobias.
Cost of services
| TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION, NEUROSIS | |
| NAME OF SERVICE | price, rub. |
| Consultation with a therapist (observation) | 3,000 rubles |
| Consultation with a neurologist (observation) | 3,000 rubles |
| Consultation with a psychologist | 2,000 rubles |
| Psychiatrist consultation | 5,000 rubles |
| Consultation with the head of the department | 4,500 rubles |
| CONSULTATIONS, INITIAL INSPECTION | |
| NAME OF SERVICE | price, rub. |
| Telephone consultation | For free! |
| Telephone consultation for relatives | For free! |
| Initial consultation with a psychiatrist-narcologist in a hospital | For free! |
| Initial consultation with a psychologist by phone | For free! |
| Visit of a narcologist and consultation at home | 1,500 rubles |
| Consultation with a psychotherapist, psychologist in the clinic | 2,000 rubles |
| Initial appointment, examination by a doctor, cubital catheter, ECG | 2,500 rubles |
| Consultation with a therapist, neurologist, surgeon | 3,000 rubles |
| Family consultation with a psychologist | 3,000 rubles |
| Psychiatrist consultation | 4,000 rubles |
| Consultation with the head of the department | 4,500 rubles |
| PROMOTIONS AND DISCOUNTS | |
| When applying again | 5% discount on treatment |
| Disabled people and war veterans | 5% discount on treatment |
| Large families | 10% discount on treatment |
* Dear patients! The administration tries to promptly update the price list posted on the website, but in order to avoid possible misunderstandings, we ask you to clarify the cost of services on the day of your call by calling 24/7.
The posted price list is not an offer.
Advantages
The hypnotic state allows a person to be more open to discussion and suggestion. It can improve the success of other treatments in many conditions, including:
- Phobias, fears and anxiety
- Some sleep disorders
- Voltage
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Grief and loss
- Irritable bowel syndrome
It can also be used to treat pain and overcome habits such as smoking or overeating. It is also useful for people whose symptoms are severe or need crisis management.
Principles of treating fears and phobias with hypnosis in medicine
Having extensive experience in hypnotic influence, our specialists adhere to the following principles:
- They do not suppress the human will, as some believe, but, on the contrary, strengthen it; a person receives a “new life” to fight the disease.
- They change negative attitudes to positive ones (often it is even important in what key and in what tone a person talks to himself).
- They work with the causes and mechanisms of triggering (maintaining) phobias hidden in the depths of the subconscious.
- Light trance often produces more results than deep trance.
- Helps balance physical and emotional well-being.
- Raise self-esteem, self-confidence and strength; set up prospects, achieving goals, etc.
- The effect of “secondary gain” is identified when the patient needs fear for some reason, but he does not realize it (for example, fear of open spaces allows him to refuse work or communicate with strangers).
- They mobilize a person’s hidden forces to combat his negative state, which after hypnosis sessions will become more conscious and obvious.
Changing the patient’s attitude towards the causes and factors of his negative state is perhaps the main goal of treating fears with hypnosis. Everything else follows from this result.
Despite the fact that a person often understands the absurdity or illogicality of his phobia, he cannot cope with it on his own. Therefore, it is necessary to seek the help of a specialist who, during a hypnosis session, will help remove the relevance and intrusiveness of the causes of phobias, and stop the mechanisms that trigger them. Treatment of fears and phobias with hypnosis is absolutely safe, non-addictive, like medications, and does not require a subsequent rehabilitation period, like surgery.
Those who suffer from such disorders should not lose hope: treatment of phobias with hypnosis is carried out everywhere today, using the latest developments and achievements of psychotherapy, taking into account the individual characteristics of the individual and his condition.
Susceptibility to hypnosis
Patients who have tried the hypnosis method on themselves experience inspiration, a surge of vigor and strength, improved mood and self-confidence. But not all people are equally susceptible to hypnosis. Scientists have found out which groups are poorly suggestible:
- Drunk people, their perception of suggestion is disabled.
- Elderly people whose imagination function declines with age.
- Due to their age, infants do not understand speech; their imagination function has not yet been formed.
- Mentally retarded people (morons, idiots) are not able to perceive and understand suggestions.
- Laughing people.
There are people who consider themselves resistant to hypnosis, but they are also suggestible, they just need to spend more time on it.
Any person who does not suffer from severe mental disorders can be hypnotized. This has been successfully proven by various sects, totalitarian regimes, etc. To take over the minds of people, they use hypnosis, and millions perceive their ideas as their own, changing their lives, sometimes not for the better.
The effectiveness of hypnosis treatment for phobias
The positive effects of hypnotic influence in the treatment of fears and phobias include:
- After the first sessions, the person feels better physically and more relaxed.
- The patient experiences an emotional upsurge, the belief that achieving the goal is real, and in the near future.
- There is an increase in self-esteem, improvement in relationships with loved ones, colleagues, and friends.
- There is an awareness of the causes and mechanisms of fears, this leads to the fact that a person concentrates less on them and changes his attitude to neutral or positive.
- The patient learns to control emotions, heartbeat, movements in difficult and stressful situations, that is, control his fear.
In any case, before treating phobias with hypnosis, it is necessary to consult with a specialist and undergo preliminary examinations so that subsequent treatment is truly effective. A combination of treatment methods is also possible.
Do you have any questions regarding this method of dealing with fear? Dial +7 (495) 744-85-28
The text was checked by expert doctors:
Head of the socio-psychological service of the Alkoklinik MC, psychologist Yu.P. Baranova, L.A. Serova, a psychiatrist-narcologist.
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Hypnotherapy
According to most psychotherapists, hypnotherapy is ineffective in treating obsessive-compulsive disorder .
However, patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder are usually anxious and suspicious and difficult to hypnosis, and do not always have a negative attitude towards this treatment option. Some of them, indeed, due to the fear of losing control over their state and situation during a hypnotic session, are afraid of hypnosis (as noted above, for patients prone to obsessive states, the fear of losing control over themselves and the environment is typical), others - on the contrary, they assume that with the help of hypnosis they will quickly get rid of obsessions and relieve themselves of responsibility for solving certain problems.
According to some hypnotists of the early twentieth century, the hypnotist is able to introduce obsessive ideas into the consciousness of the person being hypnotized, which, in our opinion, can contribute to the formation and consolidation of new obsessive states. In our practice, we encountered cases where the patient’s relatives, especially the mother, tired of his obsessive states and rituals, insisted on hypnotherapy, while the patient himself stubbornly refused hypnosis.
In fairness, it should still be noted that in the literature, especially at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, there are cases of effective treatment of agoraphobia and obsessive ideas using hypnotherapy. Thus, A. Moll (1906), in his book “Hypnotism,” cites a case of hypnosis of a 36-year-old man, in whom, after three sessions of hypnotic suggestion, it was possible to eliminate most of the manifestations of agoraphobia, and the effect of such suggestion turned out to be quite persistent and persisted for several years.
V.M. Bekhterev (1892), fascinated by the possibilities of hypnotic suggestion, tried to treat obsessive states in this way and even believed that the effectiveness of hypnotherapy here indicates that they are not a consequence of a degenerative process or the constitutional characteristics of the patient.
For obsessive phobias, some Soviet psychotherapists recommended the “method of motivated suggestion in hypnosis” according to K.I. Platonov, “method of reproductive experiences” by M.M. Asatiani. In the latter case, hypnosis reproduced situations of the formation and pathological fixation of phobias with their subsequent “active extinguishing”, more precisely the suppression of the primary fear reaction that underlay the obsessive fear.
To eliminate phobias, L. Alexander (1971) “used the method of hypnotically induced hallucinations.” During the hallucination period, the patient re-experienced painful situations, while learning to relieve internal tension. The author believed that not only induced, but also spontaneous hallucinations could have a therapeutic effect.
A.P. Slobodyannik (1977) gives an example of the successful treatment of obsessive neurosis using hypnosis methods using six hypnotherapy sessions.
Our experience indicates that hypnotherapy, like suggestion, can be recommended for the treatment of obsessive states only with a strictly differentiated and individual approach to the patient, usually as an additional method of psychotherapy that facilitates the process at certain stages of treatment. It should, however, be noted that hypntotherapy can be successfully used to relax patients, reduce the severity of anxiety, reduce discomfort and pain. It is possible that hypnotherapy can play a positive role in the treatment of intrusive memories.
A contraindication to hypnotherapy should be considered, firstly, resistance to suggestion (especially heterosuggestion) and, secondly, the presence of persistent rigid beliefs and attitudes of the patient, in particular, an overvalued or delusional level. A relative contraindication to hypnotherapy is the patient’s dependent personality type.
In recent years, hypnotherapy has increasingly been combined with other methods of psychotherapy. In particular, this trend can be seen in relation to anxiety-phobic disorders. So, Tukaev R.D. et al. (2010) developed a method of psychotherapy for anxiety disorders with panic attacks (agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobias and panic attacks), which includes psychoeducational, “cognitive-oriented” and hypnotherapeutic components. The psychoeducational component oriented patients towards understanding anxiety as a normal mobilization reaction, was aimed at forming an idea of the phase development of an anxiety disorder with panic attacks and providing information about options for relieving anxiety disorders. The “cognitive-oriented” component, according to the authors of the methodology, individualized the patient’s understanding of the development of the disorder and contributed to “normalization of the patient’s traumatic experience of panic attacks; stimulated coping of trigger components of panic attacks, restrictive behavior and phobias, etc. Hypnotherapy was carried out in the format of universal hypnotherapy, which has an “anti-anxiety and vegetative-normalizing effect”, and also potentiated the effect of “psycho-educational and cognitive-oriented components of psychotherapy.”
Danger
Hypnotherapy is not a scary procedure. This is not mental control or brainwashing. A doctor cannot force a person to do anything that is awkward or that the person does not want to do. The greatest risk, as discussed above, is that false memories may be created. It is also not a recognized standard alternative to other established treatments for major mental disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression.
Rules for immersion in hypnosis for neurotic conditions
So, usually the patient is asked to fix his gaze directly on a certain luminous point; the hypnotherapist can also speak in a calm and monotonous voice, and sometimes uses light music or a certain set of words.
Afterwards the client falls into a trance and the therapy session begins. There is no specific dive time. The duration of sessions is also set individually. For example, if a person is already experiencing quite serious mental changes, then, undoubtedly, a specialist can prescribe several sessions at once.
By using the widest possibilities of modern psychotherapeutic techniques in a competent combination directly with hypnosis-trance, you can achieve excellent results in the near future. Psychotherapy with hypnosis
– relatively fast. This helps the client to read and process the information stored in the unconscious regarding his mental trauma, and also helps to find the optimal solution, quickly optimize all the processes that occur in the body and approach healing.
Flaws
Hypnotherapy is not suitable for a person who has psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, or for those who use drugs or alcohol. It should be used to control some forms of pain only after a health care professional has assessed the person for any physical disorder that may require medical or surgical treatment.
Hypnosis is also not considered a standard or primary treatment for major mental disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or severe personality disorders. It is not a replacement for more established forms of psychotherapy or medication used for these types of conditions.
Some doctors use hypnosis to restore possible repressed memories, which, in their opinion, are associated with a person’s psychological problems. However, hypnosis also poses the risk of creating false memories, usually as a result of unintentional judgments made by the therapist. For this reason, the use of hypnosis for certain mental disorders, such as dissociative disorders, remains controversial.
