The Intervention—Phases of Intensive Short-term Therapy

This chapter provides detailed instructions for the practical application of the cognitive-behavioral short-term therapy method with hypnosis. Nineteen therapy steps are carried out in four therapy phases. The reader is guided step by step through the entire therapy sections with primarily application-oriented instructions and verbatim formulations of the therapy instructions: From the beginning of the hypnosis induction and relaxation suggestions to guiding the patient to perceive, differentiate, and recognize their negative and positive emotional states (therapy scene and relaxation). Hypnosis suggestions are at the forefront. Through these instructions, the patient experiences the therapeutically desired self-efficacy, which he then stabilizes for future real situations using autohypnosis and posthypnotic tasks. After the termination of the hypnosis, the session is debriefed, followed by therapeutic homework.