Alternative und integrative Medizin

Healing Obsessive Symptoms Stemming from Twin-Birth with Tandem Hypnotherapy

Abstract

Vas JP

Ancient myths always had a special role in people’s life helping them to deal with pre/perinatal traumatic experiences, which might lead to somato- and psychopathological symptoms. For healing the diseases stemming from this period of human life a new method has been developed by the authors. Tandem is an acronym meaning the Touch of Ancient and New Generations with a Dialogue Experiencing Oneness of Minds (TANDEM). Tandem Hypnotherapy designates a group of hypnotic methods that can be effectively applied in the case of psychosomatic and mental disorders stemming from trans- poly- and inter-generationally mediated traumas. Techniques of Tandem Hypnotherapy have been developed by the authors for the following settings: joint rebirth trance of mother and child; joint con-generational trance of natural or virtual twins; twin hypnosis and certain forms of inter-generational and trans-generational group-Hypnotherapy. In the case of all these methods, Tandem Hypnotherapy takes place with the participation of two or more clients with whom the therapists agree to go into hypnosis with the aim of re-living intrauterine experiences and the subsequent birth. In the therapeutic setting touches have a crucial role as they help to resolve the psychopathological outcomes of early relational traumas. This case study demonstrates the healing process of three members of a family with hetero-zygote twins among them. In the discussion some ideas are raised about how implicit somatic memories of pre/perinatal traumas are built into the stress-coping regulation system of the developing personality with a possibility to be repeated again when facing new stress situations.