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Hypno therapy can encourage many things that are immediately relevant to helping depressed individuals.

What follows are a dozen compelling applications of hypno therapy for treating depression.

Hypno therapy :

• helps people build and better utilize a positive focus
• facilitates the acquisition of new skills
• encourages people to define themselves as more resourceful and resilient than previously realized (enhancing their self-image as a result)
• makes the transfer of useful information from one context to another easier and more efficient (helping acquired learning generalize more easily)
• establishes helpful subjective associations more automatically and intensively
• Provides opportunities for therapeutic learning (i.e., skills and insights) to be more experiential and multidimensional
• defines people as active managers of their internal world (fostering greater emotional self-regulation)
• helps people sharpen key perceptual distinctions to counter over general thinking
• allows people a more comfortable distance from overwhelming feelings in order to face and resolve them
• encourages people to rehearse new responses and actively incorporate new possibilities in a deliberate behavioral sequence deemed likely to succeed
• helps people identify and develop underutilized personal resources and
• helps people detach from a sense of victimhood.

No one gets past depression without achieving all of these things and more. Contained in this special issue are powerful examples of creative applications of suggestions and hypno therapy in the treatment of depression, and all sharing at least one common denominator.

They serve to empower the client. They strengthen the client to discover and develop new resources, and they empower the client to evolve flexibility in living that encourages shifting directions when a path is temporarily blocked or adversity encountered.