Hypnosis

Spurred on by Milton Erickson in the USA in the 1960s, therapeutic hypnosis has continued to develop throughout the world. Like all living organisms, it is regularly enriched by new branches, proposing new ways of providing support and care.

My encounter with Japan and its culture gradually led me to transform my clinical practice. In a hypnosis session, it’s not simply a question of one subject acting on another: what is created is a shared relational field. We can approach this through Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō’s concept of basho: 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, “off-center” to reach the patient’s inner experience, while the patient discovers him or herself differently through the therapist’s gaze, words and presence.

The hypnosis session thus becomes less a technique applied to an individual, than an experience of co-emergence in a relational field, just as Nishida thinks of existence within the basho.

Today, I work with hypnosis in several areas:

• A practice of hypnotherapy in Paris 👉 In practice
• Teaching work within various structures 👉 Training courses
• An activity coordinating a group of Franco-Japanese therapists. 👉 Explorations
• Research crossing hypnosis and Japanese philosophy, from a clinical, cultural and existential perspective. 👉 Explorations
• A transmission through articles, interviews and participation in conferences in France and Japan 👉 Publications