Back in the 1960′s the Amazing Kreskin the mesmeric mentalist and something of a hero of mine, proved in a court of law that hypnosis was the applied art of suggestion and that as an entity it actually does not exist. Sadly of course he’s totally wrong. Even though I can’t ‘prove’ it and claim the reward he offers in his latest book Kreskin Confidential.
I know it’s tedious but like the road traffic act insisting you drive on the left in the UK – you ignore the law concerning Stage and Street Hypnosis at your peril.
Although not conclusive by any means the document below is way more informative than the majority of so-called legal knowledge out there. Mainly because I did what no one else has and asked my MP to find out what the 1952 Hypnotism act actually and it’s attending documents, actually means to the performing hypnotist in the UK.
Are Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy the same thing?
In my experience apart from the roots they ‘appear’ to have come from and the goals to which they are used – the two are very often entirely different.
It’s rather like asking if English Football and American Football are the same. And the answer to that has to be – well they are both games where as Patch Adams says, “You watch a load of millionaires playing with their balls.” That and the fact they both use the word Football.
Why HypnoTherapy Is Giving Hypnosis a Bad Image.
The Guardian newspaper ran a piece this week in their business problems section, a sort of Agony Aunt self help section for wannabe
entrepreneurs, on the ethics of using Hypnotherapy to boost performance at work.
In “Is it OK to be hypnotised to improve my work performance?” a boss
has apparently suggested ‘Cognitive Hypnotherapy Treatment’ to his sales team to boost their performance.
Of course the author is a bit nonplussed and is questioning the ethics of being told he is sick or ill and needs ‘treatment’.
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