CHT Hypnotic Suggestion and Scripting Flashcards

What is the key difference between direct and indirect suggestions in hypnotherapy?

Answer: Direct suggestions are explicit commands while indirect suggestions imply the desired response

Direct suggestions are explicit commands (e.g., 'You will relax'), while indirect suggestions imply or guide the desired response without directly stating it.

Which suggestion style is most associated with Milton Erickson's approach to hypnotherapy?

Answer: Indirect permissive suggestions

Milton Erickson was known for his indirect, permissive suggestion style that works cooperatively with the client's unconscious mind.

What is a post-hypnotic suggestion?

Answer: A suggestion delivered during trance that influences behavior after the session

Post-hypnotic suggestions are delivered during trance and are designed to influence the client's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors after the session ends.

What is the purpose of an ideomotor response in hypnotherapy?

Answer: To allow unconscious communication via involuntary physical signals

Ideomotor responses such as finger signals allow the client's unconscious mind to communicate through involuntary physical movements without conscious effort.

Which language pattern involves presupposing the desired outcome has already occurred?

Answer: Presupposition

Presupposition is a language pattern that assumes the desired change is already happening, such as 'as you continue to relax more deeply.'

What is a hypnotic double bind?

Answer: A choice between two options that both lead to the desired therapeutic outcome

A hypnotic double bind offers two choices where both options lead to the same desired outcome, such as 'You can relax now, or in just a moment.'