Can the time for formal psychoanalysis be materially shorten by the use of hypnosis?
Yes, hypnosis can shorten the length of psychoanalysis tremendously. In fact, this is one of the interest of modern psychonalysists. In 1889, Freud stated, “Eventually, free association methods will be replaced by hypnosis,” … a statement he repeated in later years. In hypnosis, we communicate directly with the subconscious, and since the immediate object of psychoanalysis is to bring back to consciousness those parts of the self-and its experiences-that have been repressed, hypnosis can be the means to accomplish this.
