myths about hypnotherapy

There is a myth that hypnotherapists can use power over people to make them compliant to their every wish. This is untrue, as people may not accept suggestions, which are displeasing to them. Another myth is that hypnotherapists can regress people back beyond birth to previous lives or incarnations. Hypnotherapists do claim to be able to regress people to significant periods of their childhood, but not usually beyond. Hypnotherapy is normally used simply as another therapeutic technique within psychotherapy or cognitive behaviour therapy... back