Hypnoanalysis

[1] It attempts to utilize the trance state induced by hypnosis to effect a conscious understanding of a person's unconscious psychodynamics.

[2] Hypnoanalysis is derived from the prefix hypno, which the French Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers first used to describe the hypnotic state.

[5] Fromm is particularly noted for her collaboration with Daniel Brown and Michael Nash, which produced their works detailing the benefits of hypnoanalysis in the 1980s and 1990s.

Breuer discovered that hypnosis could be used, as a form of therapy, to help a hysterical patient to recall the events that caused their hysteria.

Following from this, both Freud and Breuer laid down the fundamental ideologies for psychotherapy today, Cathartic Method and Mechanisms of Repression.

[12] The patient would firstly be hypnotised and given “protective suggestions” [13] and in order to prevent guilt, the treatment would be followed up by posthypnotic amnesia.

In the neuropsychiatric clinic of the Army general hospital, Buckley (1950) noticed that 9 of 22 cases of head trauma with an “alteration of consciousness[14]” were treated using hypnosis for a time period of 1 to 15 weeks and the treatments were successful.

Side effects when undergoing hypnosis therapy include: being anxious of the process when being induced, having trouble awakening from their dream-like state and possible time distortions.

[citation needed] More general side effects for patients include: drowsiness, distress, headaches, dizziness and the creation of false memories.