Spurred on by Milton Erickson in the USA in the 1960s, therapeutic hypnosis has gone from strength to strength throughout the world.
Like all living organisms, it evolves, changes and is enriched by new branches, offering different ways of providing care and support.
My encounter with Japan and its culture gradually led me to transform my clinical practice.
In a hypnosis session, it’s not simply a matter of one subject acting on another. What is created above all is a shared relational field.
This dimension can be illuminated by the concept of the basho, developed by the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō.
The basho designates a place that belongs neither to the therapist nor to the patient, but which constitutes their common meeting space.
In this relational basho, the therapist opens up and “off-center” to reach the patient’s inner experience. The patient, in turn, discovers him- or herself differently, through the therapist’s gaze, words and presence.
The hypnosis session thus becomes less the application of a technique to an individual than an experience of co-emergence in a relational field, in line with Nishida’s way of thinking about existence within the basho.
Current activities
- A hypnotherapy practice in Paris 👉 In Practice
- A teaching activity within several institutions 👉 Training/Courses
- Coordination of an international Franco-Japanese group within HEALTH UNITED, an Integrative Health Association 👉 Integrative Health
- A knowledge-sharing activity through articles, interviews, and participation in conferences in France and Japan 👉 Publications
