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Abstracto

Hypnosis ? Stoking the fire of creativity within an Individual

Dipankar Patra

In the clinical setting, hypnotic phenomenon that have creative qualities have been observed. The hypnotherapist is engaged in a 4-stage creative process. Initiation is the first stage which optimise a client’s inner work where the therapist helps one to access state dependent memory and emotional arousal. In the second phase, emotional conflicts are made to come up to the mind body language about unresolved problems at an unconscious level that require review and reconstruction. In the illumination stage, the therapist helps one to recognise and appreciate the value of new spontaneous and unheralded learning. The final stage is the stage of evaluation and reality testing. With respect to relation between hypnosis and creativity, there are wide range of theories. While, some proponents of neo dissociation theorists claim that there is no facilitation of creative insight during hypnosis there are psychoanalysis theorists who strongly believe to the contrary. For them, adaptive regression used during hypnosis provides a theoretical link between creativity and hypnosis, although it also draws important distinction between the two processes. The most general belief is that hypnosis facilitates the retrieval of images and ideas into phenomenal awareness. The notion that creativity is related to hypnosis has both an observed and a theoretical foundation and the clinical hypnosis literature is filled with pertinent examples of creative responses by hypnotised patients.Reported cases involving the creation of pseudo-memories in the context of hypnosis sessions, hypermnesia and past-life regressionare some examples as these are known to involve some degree of confabulation. While most critics differ whether confabulation can be an erroneous rather than a creative response, some view it as appropriate if it is adaptive to the needs of the subject.