Comments on: Hypnoanalysis for anxiety – Scam http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html Anxiety, Panic Attack and Phobias Information Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anon http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html/comment-page-1#comment-49780 Anon Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:57:54 +0000 http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/?p=241#comment-49780 After years - about 25 of suffering from fear of vomiting I decided to give pure hypnoanalysis a go. I had already tried normal hypnotherapy (I call it normal as it was just about trying to relax me) all very nice but didn’t really help. I then tried CBT, again not really for me and seeing people being sick over and over again didn’t make me feel any worse but certainly didn’t make me feel any better either! Anyway desperate to find a 'cure' I found pure hypnoanalysis. It sounded fantastic and I went for my consultation. Now I was a little taken aback by the hypnotist’s demeanour - he was brash and ever other word started with f and ended with ing. Now I don’t mind the odd swear word so I just accepted that this was a good thing and we'd get along great, I left feeling very positive. Right from my first session I felt like all he wanted to talk about was anything seen as 'sexual', this was strange and my mind was not freely going to these places. I stumbled across a memory involving with my father – this memory I have had for years, nothing new, something a bit uncomfortable but not in the sexual abuse league! However all my therapist wanted to do was incorrectly sexualise the situation. I started off talking about this memory without any problems, maybe feeling a little uncomfortable, until I was asked to ‘imagine’ what could have happened next. Now what my therapist made me ‘imagine’ was absolutely disgusting and certainly not right. However under hypnosis your mind concludes that this disgusting thing which your being told happened did actually happen….. until your told wake up, you hand over the £75, get in your car, drive home and think ‘ what the f**** ! After balling my eyes out over something the therapist made me ‘imagine’ he then decided I needed a little pep talk and he started to ask if I liked drinking milk, if I liked eating rice pudding and If ever swallowed after performing oral sex. He was obviously hoping my answer would be no to all, unfortunately for him I only answered no to one – the one which most ladies will be able to relate too! He got a bit flustered and just said ‘see you next week’. He was hoping that he would then be able to tell me that the reason I didn’t like to partake in these things was due to my ‘abuse’. What a k**b! I stopped the sessions after telling him I didn’t trust him and that this whole ‘imagining’ was incorrect and just plain sick’ – the hypnotist then went on to say it wasn’t my fault I didn’t trust him (dam right it wasn’t my fault!) and that I should go and see his colleague a women who would help because my abuse stemmed from a male and he could no longer help me. All very similar to other stories above. Suffice to say I will not be going to see any more IPAH approved gods who can 100% cure people. Anyway I could go on and on. But basically this is dangerous stuff and for the most vulnerable amongst us this is exceptionally damaging. This really has to be stopped, although I have no idea where to start. I am going to see my GP next week and hopefully I can see if talking to someone about the way I am (for free) might help to clear a few things up. I’ll also be sharing my hypnoanalysis experiences. I’m still open to anything having happened to me in my past – as long I can REMEMBER and its 100% TRUE. I strongly agree with Another Unfortunate Victim – if you don’t believe it’s as bad as a lot of people claim, then go – but record the sessions and be prepared to be none the wiser and a whole lot more confused! After years – about 25 of suffering from fear of vomiting I decided to give pure hypnoanalysis a go. I had already tried normal hypnotherapy (I call it normal as it was just about trying to relax me) all very nice but didn’t really help. I then tried CBT, again not really for me and seeing people being sick over and over again didn’t make me feel any worse but certainly didn’t make me feel any better either! Anyway desperate to find a ‘cure’ I found pure hypnoanalysis. It sounded fantastic and I went for my consultation.

Now I was a little taken aback by the hypnotist’s demeanour – he was brash and ever other word started with f and ended with ing. Now I don’t mind the odd swear word so I just accepted that this was a good thing and we’d get along great, I left feeling very positive.

Right from my first session I felt like all he wanted to talk about was anything seen as ‘sexual’, this was strange and my mind was not freely going to these places. I stumbled across a memory involving with my father – this memory I have had for years, nothing new, something a bit uncomfortable but not in the sexual abuse league! However all my therapist wanted to do was incorrectly sexualise the situation. I started off talking about this memory without any problems, maybe feeling a little uncomfortable, until I was asked to ‘imagine’ what could have happened next. Now what my therapist made me ‘imagine’ was absolutely disgusting and certainly not right. However under hypnosis your mind concludes that this disgusting thing which your being told happened did actually happen….. until your told wake up, you hand over the £75, get in your car, drive home and think ‘ what the f**** !

After balling my eyes out over something the therapist made me ‘imagine’ he then decided I needed a little pep talk and he started to ask if I liked drinking milk, if I liked eating rice pudding and If ever swallowed after performing oral sex. He was obviously hoping my answer would be no to all, unfortunately for him I only answered no to one – the one which most ladies will be able to relate too! He got a bit flustered and just said ‘see you next week’. He was hoping that he would then be able to tell me that the reason I didn’t like to partake in these things was due to my ‘abuse’. What a k**b!

I stopped the sessions after telling him I didn’t trust him and that this whole ‘imagining’ was incorrect and just plain sick’ – the hypnotist then went on to say it wasn’t my fault I didn’t trust him (dam right it wasn’t my fault!) and that I should go and see his colleague a women who would help because my abuse stemmed from a male and he could no longer help me. All very similar to other stories above. Suffice to say I will not be going to see any more IPAH approved gods who can 100% cure people.

Anyway I could go on and on. But basically this is dangerous stuff and for the most vulnerable amongst us this is exceptionally damaging. This really has to be stopped, although I have no idea where to start. I am going to see my GP next week and hopefully I can see if talking to someone about the way I am (for free) might help to clear a few things up. I’ll also be sharing my hypnoanalysis experiences. I’m still open to anything having happened to me in my past – as long I can REMEMBER and its 100% TRUE.

I strongly agree with Another Unfortunate Victim – if you don’t believe it’s as bad as a lot of people claim, then go – but record the sessions and be prepared to be none the wiser and a whole lot more confused!

]]> By: NC http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html/comment-page-1#comment-47647 NC Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:14:49 +0000 http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/?p=241#comment-47647 Hello, I am currently finishing my studies in Hypnotherapy and have found the comments very alarming. I agree that trying to implant false memories is unethical. But is that really the case? With all the due respect, but I think is quite serious to make allegations as such based on ignorance and on top of all that every story has two sides. Most of the complaints so far were made without knowledge of the profession... HOWEVER if that is what really really happened, then it would be the case of reporting to the relevant association. Another point is: what is the point of recording the session when you are supposed to get a recorded copy of the session. During my case studies I allowed them all to record the whole process in their IPhone. No problem at all. PEOPLE!! There are good and bad professionals in every profession... and yes there are therapists out there who went to a 2 day training course on how to become a Hypnotherapist... You have got to research first, ask them what did they have to do to obtain their qualification and if you are not happy just walk away! You are all grown ups and shouldn't be behaving like children!! You are NOT in a position to judge the profession at all! Hello,
I am currently finishing my studies in Hypnotherapy and have found the comments very alarming.
I agree that trying to implant false memories is unethical. But is that really the case? With all the due respect, but I think is quite serious to make allegations as such based on ignorance and on top of all that every story has two sides.
Most of the complaints so far were made without knowledge of the profession… HOWEVER if that is what really really happened, then it would be the case of reporting to the relevant association. Another point is: what is the point of recording the session when you are supposed to get a recorded copy of the session. During my case studies I allowed them all to record the whole process in their IPhone. No problem at all.
PEOPLE!! There are good and bad professionals in every profession… and yes there are therapists out there who went to a 2 day training course on how to become a Hypnotherapist… You have got to research first, ask them what did they have to do to obtain their qualification and if you are not happy just walk away! You are all grown ups and shouldn’t be behaving like children!! You are NOT in a position to judge the profession at all!

]]> By: Another unfortunate victim http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html/comment-page-1#comment-45153 Another unfortunate victim Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:01:18 +0000 http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/?p=241#comment-45153 I too had a similar experience to the posts above i was told that it would a one time event then he changed his mind and said that it was something that happend many times over a long period, when i said i had no memory of what he said happend i was told basically to make it up. When this magical cure never happened he changed his mind again and said it might be somthing else once my twelve sessions was up i was told that he did not know what caused my problem and i should forget i had ever been to see him. After doing some research on the **** i found out that one of there therapists had been lock up for sexual assualting a women while using this "amazing" therapy just type in (stephen barker hardwick sexual assault hypnotherapy) in the search engine, he was also married to another **** therapist who is still praticing today. How can someone be married to a pervert and not know this and then claim she is a good therapist after all a doubt that someone gets to 61 a suddenly becomes a pervert he has probably been like this all his life. Also the person that is in charge of this scam called the **** claims to be some sort of psychological genius why is he then training people like this after all if he was any good at his job then he should of known the man was a pervert. I found numerous stories on the internet of people who are depressed and suicidal after going for this bad therapy any one who uses this bad therapy should be ashamed of them self's for putting your own finacial greed in front of peoples health. If anybody wants to find out more about this damaging therapy research (recovered memory therapy) which is the method the **** uses if you still decide to have this therapy then i recommend secretly recording the sessions so when you become damaged by these poor methods you can get compensation for this negligence not that money can undo the damage caused by these poorly trained therapists. I too had a similar experience to the posts above i was told that it would a one time event then he changed his mind and said that it was something that happend many times over a long period, when i said i had no memory of what he said happend i was told basically to make it up. When this magical cure never happened he changed his mind again and said it might be somthing else once my twelve sessions was up i was told that he did not know what caused my problem and i should forget i had ever been to see him. After doing some research on the **** i found out that one of there therapists had been lock up for sexual assualting a women while using this “amazing” therapy just type in (stephen barker hardwick sexual assault hypnotherapy) in the search engine, he was also married to another **** therapist who is still praticing today. How can someone be married to a pervert and not know this and then claim she is a good therapist after all a doubt that someone gets to 61 a suddenly becomes a pervert he has probably been like this all his life. Also the person that is in charge of this scam called the **** claims to be some sort of psychological genius why is he then training people like this after all if he was any good at his job then he should of known the man was a pervert. I found numerous stories on the internet of people who are depressed and suicidal after going for this bad therapy any one who uses this bad therapy should be ashamed of them self’s for putting your own finacial greed in front of peoples health. If anybody wants to find out more about this damaging therapy research (recovered memory therapy) which is the method the **** uses if you still decide to have this therapy then i recommend secretly recording the sessions so when you become damaged by these poor methods you can get compensation for this negligence not that money can undo the damage caused by these poorly trained therapists.

]]> By: mel http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html/comment-page-1#comment-43614 mel Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:07:50 +0000 http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/?p=241#comment-43614 I am a hypnotherapist and a counsellor. I have worked with a few clients who have been mistreated by purehypnoanalyst. Often we need to work on the damage that was created, before we even start on what they wish to work with. My client's are confused, scared, anxious about their experience of the hypnoanalyst directing and leading them into false memories, usually of so called sexual abuse. please anyone considering these type of therapy - please consider it very carefully. you may be lucky and just throw around a few hundred pounds, or you may be left with confusion, false memories which impact family relations and cause deep wounding. I am a hypnotherapist and a counsellor. I have worked with a few clients who have been mistreated by purehypnoanalyst. Often we need to work on the damage that was created, before we even start on what they wish to work with. My client’s are confused, scared, anxious about their experience of the hypnoanalyst directing and leading them into false memories, usually of so called sexual abuse.

please anyone considering these type of therapy – please consider it very carefully. you may be lucky and just throw around a few hundred pounds, or you may be left with confusion, false memories which impact family relations and cause deep wounding.

]]> By: Joanne Moore http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/2008/10/hypnoanalysis-for-anxiety-scam.html/comment-page-1#comment-28128 Joanne Moore Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:44:21 +0000 http://www.anxiety2calm.com/blogger/?p=241#comment-28128 Paul your email is so uplifting and positive to read. Whilst I have never suffered any of the problems you had, my partner has a very similiar story to yours. We are looking into pure hypnoanalysis at the moment and until I read your text I really thought it wasn't for him! There is so much negativity on this site! I now think maybe it could help him. Like you he has tried so many things to get well and has had the problems for just as many years. Thank you for sharing your story and may you continue to have health and happiness. Paul your email is so uplifting and positive to read. Whilst I have never suffered any of the problems you had, my partner has a very similiar story to yours. We are looking into pure hypnoanalysis at the moment and until I read your text I really thought it wasn’t for him! There is so much negativity on this site! I now think maybe it could help him. Like you he has tried so many things to get well and has had the problems for just as many years. Thank you for sharing your story and may you continue to have health and happiness.

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