title: The utilization of hypnosis in psychotherapy: metaphor and transformation.
abstract: Hypnotic methods using suggestion and metaphor provide an economic and rapid means of facilitating rapid therapeutic change by the psychotherapist. Such methods circumvent normal conscious resistance to change by allowing the client to access his own inner resources in a therapeutically collaborative way. Metaphoric communications can serve numerous purposes, ultimately resulting in the transformation of conflict into new resource states for the client.
authors.affiliation: Steckler Associates, Beachwood, Ohio.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Steckler
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy; D013404:Suggestion