As you know, traumatization occurs as a result of a person’s reaction to certain events in his life. Accordingly, in order to resolve the issue, it is necessary to return (regress) to a certain situation and resolve the conflict. The paradox is that most of the events that led to trauma are “repressed” from our consciousness. This is how the mechanism of mental health works. It is believed that this was done in order to protect the psyche from shocks. And here we are faced with a double mechanism of psychological defense in the form of REPLACEMENT and RESISTANCE. Repression (suppression, repression) is one of the mechanisms of a person’s psychological defense against conflicts playing out in the depths of his psyche. It consists of an active, motivated elimination of something from consciousness. Usually manifests itself in the form of unmotivated forgetting or ignoring. A striking example of repression is Infantile amnesia - a mental phenomenon expressed in the fact that childhood years (usually up to 5-6 years) are shrouded in an “amnestic veil” for most people. Early impressions and experiences, which are subsequently forgotten and become inaccessible to the memories of adults, actually leave deep traces in mental life and have a decisive influence on the further development of a person. In turn, Resistance is the internal forces of a person that protect the body from any changes and changes in life. Very often there is resistance during psychotherapy, since it is work with a psychotherapist that triggers the process of psychological changes in the human body. From the point of view of psychoanalysis, Resistance is a mental mechanism that prevents psychoanalytic penetration into the unconscious and prevents the return of the repressed. As Freud said, “the force that maintains the painful state” and does not allow him to adhere to the basic rule of psychoanalysis: to say everything that comes to mind. Since during the therapeutic process we are faced with these psychological defense mechanisms, we need a tool to overcome them. And here hypnosis comes to the rescue. The use of hypnosis makes the work more effective, allowing you to reduce resistance in a short time and activate memory (gain access to repressed/amnesic events of the past that resulted in trauma). How does it work? The hypnotic state reduces (slows down) the activity of the left hemisphere responsible for rationalization (logical thinking, analytical thinking and linear-numerical reasoning) i.e. critical thinking decreases, and at the same time activates the work of the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for creative thinking, as well as emotional and bodily memory. Due to this, the RESISTANCE of Consciousness is reduced, and we conditionally gain access to the Unconscious (i.e., repressed “amnesic” experience. By activating emotional memory (this is memory for feelings, one of the most powerful types of memory), a person can remember some situation, some information that cannot be remembered in any other way. The stronger the feeling, the stronger the memorization - preservation - of this information. To put it figuratively, an emotion is a thread, and traumatic situations are beads dressed on this thread. And by pulling the thread, we activate the situation. associated with this painful emotion. Next, our task, together with the patient, in tandem, is to unravel, step by step, the deep events that led to the trauma, descending deeper and deeper. Approaching closer and closer to the Cause.... To what served as the beginning (core) of this experience.....