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Phobias - Symbolic
Although at first glance some Phobias seem to serve a sensible purpose (fear
of fire, drowning, falling) others appear to make little sense at all.
Until you look deeper and then it can be seen that all Phobia serve a purpose.
A phobia is an external symbolic representation of an internal anxiety.
The most obvious example is the fear of lifts: how many people do you know who have
been trapped in a lift. Or have been in a lift when it has gone out of
control and crashed. None? So where does this common fear of lifts
come from. The fact is they (mostly)
don't have a fear of lifts (or dying, or crashing, or being trapped in a small
and confined place), they have a fear of being out of control - which their
brain symbolises and then projects onto the lift.
In therapy, we can look for and find the originating cause, (this will be
a conflict that is known only to the unconscious mind, not the conscious mind).
Once we find the root cause of the Phobia and release the emotions that are
attached to it - the
phobia disappears.
Can I cure my own Phobia?
Self help books can sometimes help, although more often what they are actually
doing is causing you to think about the phobia which is likely to increase your
anxiety. The best way to 'cure' a phobia is to talk to a first rate
therapist. As already stated, the object of the phobia is rarely the root
cause of the anxiety.
Is there more than one way of curing a phobia?
There has been some success with desensitization of the phobia, which
basically means being exposed to the object of the phobia and then talking
through feelings until the person can feel a certain amount of control when next
exposed. This seems logical, if it is possible for you to be exposed to
the phobia. Like a phobia about lifts. If you have a phobia about
elephants however, we have a problem. However, I find that taking an Analytical
approach using Hypnotherapy we can find the
root cause of the anxiety , and when we do, the phobia disappears - because there is
nothing driving it anymore.
Why do you think Hypno-analysis will 'cure' the
phobia.
Most phobias are formed in childhood. (although they might not appear
until adulthood) The only way to get rid of the phobia completely is to
access the emotions bound up with the anxiety and release them. We do this using
Free Association (FA)
This may sound easy, but most of the time, the
bottled up emotions are completely hidden away in the depths of the
persons subconscious mind. (some people call this repression, what that means is
that the sufferer
has no conscious awareness of the emotions or experiences that are bottled up).
Through the process of hypno-analysis a strong bond of trust and rapport is
built between the analyst and the client, which enables the client to share
experiences that come to mind. This typically takes about eight sessions, at weekly intervals, we slowly link
thoughts and experiences back through time (by talking about them) until we come to
the bottled up emotions. When we get to these emotions, we talk them through
until they are resolved.
Once the fear, that in
childhood seemed paralysing is viewed from the eyes of the child turned adult.
The fear can easily be resolved
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