Andrew Huberman· PhD
And I that with hypnosis and you can do it much faster.
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So, she was quite hypnotizable. I got her floating. I say, you're safe and comfortable, now, nothing can happen that will harm your body. But on the left side of the screen, I want you to picture this guy and his approaching and what's happening.
And so, it was a way of, helping her restructure her experience of the trauma and make it more tolerable. So that helped with her- She didn't recog- She couldn't identify the guy, but it helped her restructure and understand her experience. And that's something that you can do in just talking, straight out psychotherapy. But sometimes you can do it a hell of a lot faster and more efficiently using hypnosis.
So, when you use hypnosis to help them deal with a traumatic memory, you're making the state they're in, right there in your office with you, more congruent to the state they were likely in, when the trauma happened. And I think that is part of what helps facilitate treatment of trauma related disorders.
And so it was a way of helping her restructure her experience of the trauma and make it more tolerable. So that helped with her. She didn't rec she couldn't identify the guy, but it helped her restructure and understand her experience.
So, in a way, hypnosis is helping them remember and deal with the memories better because they're more in the mental state that is more like what happened.
So, when you use hypnosis to help them deal with the traumatic memory, you're making the state they're in right there in your office with you more congruent to the state they were likely in when the trauma happened.