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often been omitted from short lists of therapies because it was thought of as lacking in depth and being,
in effect, the field: [conscious, subconscious & trance, direction]. This makes it seem far more limited in
scope than it truly is, as I hope this book has shown. I am afraid that Hypnotherapy has long lacked the
respect that is its due because of this faulty perception in the minds of those who are not experienced in
it. One of the aims of this book is to elaborate the sound intellectual and scientific basis for the field to
prevent such a dismissive attitude in future.
Not only is this expression of Hypnotherapy near the middle of the list alphabetically, but it is not
extreme in other ways. It does not say, "This way, and no other!" (as many of the founders of other
schools have said). We have seen that it can accommodate the framework of systems that each of the
other specialised therapies use, where appropriate. It is, in principle, broader because it starts with the
question, "What are the most appropriate systems for analysing this situation?" By contrast a Primalist,
for example, has already pre-judged this issue and answered, "The Pain of a very early suppressed
scream."
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But there is no reason why a Hypnotherapist should not decide, after the diagnostic process outlined, to
work with the set of systems of any of the above approaches, but to bring to them some of the particular
strengths of the morganic approach, which include a clear sense of the dynamics of organic processes;
the value of inactivating irrelevant systems; the importance at many levels of feedback loops of many
kinds and the ability to make significant changes to different systems at different levels by handling the
dynamics properly.
SUMMARY
Different schools of Psychotherapy tend to focus their attention on different subsystems of the human
mind, and apply different techniques to them. Hypnotherapy, in the sense of this book, is broader than
most, as it deals with levels of systems from the comparatively simple reflexes of the nervous system up
to social systems. It includes a prescriptive diagnostic process, a crisp theoretical framework, a sense of
the dynamics of feedback systems and a wide variety of procedures to change them.
In particular we note that Hypnotherapy is not in opposition to any of the other schools. If it is judged
that the particular systems of a school are important in a given Client, then the systematic approach of
Hypnotherapy can be applied to those systems.
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Principles of Hypnosis:
CHAPTER 22
Activity
This chapter presents a precise scientific definition of the key notion of activity which has run through
this book. The activity of a system is defined as the rate at which it increases the entropy of the universe -
a quantity which is in principle always measurable or calculable. It also has the property of always
being positive. It is approximately proportional to the power output of the system in watts. If we wish to
extrapolate the notion of activity to socio-economic systems (which are also organic) then a more useful
measure will be the rate at which money is spent: £/sec.
IN THE BULK of this book the word "activity" has been used freely without defining it precisely. This
chapter elaborates on the idea a little. The following precise definition will now be proposed.
The activity of an organic process is the rate at which it increases the thermodynamic entropy of the
universe.
(The definition would also be meaningful for an inorganic process, but we are not primarily interested in
those.)
Let us see why this is a useful definition.
The first point is that it is well defined. Although the concept of entropy is perhaps rather difficult to [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]