Manhattan Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Hypnosis and Couples Therapy
Presented by Jane Parsons-Fein, LCSW, BCD, DAHB

“Hypnosis is a natural everyday experience. Trance is a natural everyday experience.” —Milton H. Erickson, MD

When couples fall in love, they put each other into a positive trance (usually).
As they get closer, early imprints trigger unfulfilled expectations and, if these triggers go unrecognized, the couples' states of consciousness tend to regress and then...
Couples tend to put each other into negative trances.
We can use hypnotic tools to reverse this process, by helping couples to unhook from imprinted patterns, and the split-off parts of themselves that are accessed and amplified can be transformed.
These split-off parts hurt the most.
In an atmosphere of trust, which the therapist generates out of being comfortable with his or her own unconscious, these imprinted patterns can be transformed.
where there was anger there can be compassion.
When people develop compassion for themselves they can open their hearts to the humanity in the other.
The art of the therapist is to maintain the unconscious connection with the humanity in each person simultaneously, and hold that space for them until they can transform their negative patterns.