A rationale on the chance to break free
From a view of the Clinical Corner, the general idea of the hypnotic intervention, mesmerizing imagery above, consists of the rather Freudian fact that overwhelming infantile experiences want and need e.g. divine support, as the obviously only relieve remaining at this level of very old childlike experiences of helplessness, activated from the situation of actual life, i.e., of feeling helplessly obsessed.
(Where, from a Freudian point of view, the psychoanalyst, without any blasphemy, would assume the decisive part; become the 'acme' of the patient actually)
Feeling helpless, regardless of innumerable adult experiences adequately available, to cope with this degrading state of actual life successfully, because, the continuing doomed to failure actual scenes from the world out there would call up the incapacitating experiences exclusively, over and over again.
The other, quite normal adult proceedings in the world out there do not lead to the realization of a new chance, when in fact every adequate adult experience called up, is considered under a promise to keep that already extinguished since a long time; before he might sleep with another woman.
It needs the kick in the back from out of the blue to make the dog jump over the fence and part with learned helplessness1 : "kill the experiences of her", make them extinguish themselves, i.e., "give up what is already lost, stop to be a fool"; or in the words of Saul Bellow: "A thought murder every day keeps the psychiatrist away." 2
Now, an adult experience intermingles and offers the new chance; in a rather Freudian manner reflecting the bygone process, as it came to an end, in a final remark.
Catharsis from a short rather Aristotelian/J. Breuerian & Freudian revival of the bygone tragedy activates the additional adult experiences of the doomed affair and eliminates it finally for good.
Looking forward again in adult manner, adult experiences increasingly called up by the world out there, he realizes the teeming chances of replacements as well.
No longer afraid of anything, he decides to let them come and get it!
It usually might take a long analysing process for granted, to gain this final insight properly, i.e., at a level of conscious mind from modern-day proceedings; even though the original J. Breuerian & Freudian work with Anna O. in 1895 was an attempt at the level of F.A. Mesmer's hypnosis already.
Where - at the safeguarded level of scientifically developed, e.g. Ericksonian hypnosis - I am working with quite easily accessible mental experiences, to solve the problem in a state of active hypnotic trance, at this distinctively other level of consciousness; cutting down the successful Psychotherapistic process to only a few hours of hypnotherapy actually.
1 Cf., M.E.P. Seligman, Learned helplessness; 1965.
2 Saul Bellow: Ravelstein; Amazon: Paperback, 2001
