Psychotherapy is a scientifically proven form of treatment, and neuroscience has justified hypnosis as a convenient method to train our mind to change our brain. However, hypnosis remains widely misunderstood. Looking beyond hypnosis as entertainment or as a tool to manipulate people without their knowledge, this volume clears up many misconceptions surrounding the practice by exploring it as a part of psychodynamic psychotherapy. In this context, hypnosis involves the activation of the patient's fantasy to create a new inner reality of the self, so that this reality can take the place of the...