by Akuma » Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:40 am
Hypnotherapy is not a broadly accepted method because the "memories" that can coem up in this form of therapy are mostly inaccurate. In addition purely trying to remember repressed memories is not what a complete psychotherapy is about. It has been shown for example that one of the most essential features of therapy in regards to positive outcome is the patient-therapist relationship, the actual method being important, too but way less than this. In addition to this therapy usualyl focuses either on cognitive and behavioral changes, or on the working-through of unconscious conflicts, not so much on the reactivation of repressed memories, which can purely retraumatize you and have a negative effect, if you for example, cannot cope with the memory, make sense of it and so on.
That being said if you are looking to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, then psychodynamic therapy is probably the way to go.
dx: SPD