Neil French is semi-retired and living in Spain. His book called 'Successful Hypnotherapy' is also published in Spanish as "Hypnoterapia Eficaz". He has taught the concept of Hypnoanalysis, as he created it in the late nineteen seventies, to thousands of his students, throughout Europe and the world. His teachings are continued, with amendments, by his protege Rob Kelly, and the Training Programme retains the name Successful Hypnotherapy. Neil French was influenced strongly by the writings of Sigmund Freud, but became convinced that Freud had missed the very 'Alchemist's Stone' he was searching for by abandoning his use of hypnosis. According to Neil; "Freud had never truly appreciated that a person in hypnosis can converse quite freely with the hypnotist", and " Freud himself doubted his own efficacy as a hypnotist". The version of Hypnoanalysis that Neil French produced has stood the test of time, and has been instrumental in helping many multi-thousands of people achieve psychological growth and relief from distressing symptoms. This interpretation of hypnoanalysis that Neil French created, over three decades ago, was, and still is, unique. It is fair to say that his discovery that 'free association' within the 'state' of hypnosis would lead the person to a cathartic release from 'repressed' or concealed trauma, was totally revoluntionary. Nobody before him had realised this. The vast majority of the renowned practitioners; Emil Coue, Franz Anton Mesmer, or, more recently; Milton H Erickson, Dave Elman, Gil Boyne, Paul McKenna, et al., had been, and in many cases still are, relying on directed regression; if indeed, they used, or use, regression techniques at all. The vast majority being content with the use of Hypnotic Suggestion or NLP techniques. The first, accurately researched, investigation of 'pure hypnoanalysis', as it is now named, has recently been carried out by the IAPH. The results very clearly vindicate claims for the efficacy of the therapy. Neil French discovered, possibly/probably, even invented, the concept of hypnoanalysis, certainly created the concept of free association within hypnosis. Neil French asserts that the vast majority of 'instant' hypnosis therapies offering relief from symptoms in just one session are really only 'suggestion therapy couched in analytical terms', and that further investigation of such therapies reveal the results to be short lived. His belief in the doctrine of "cause and effect" is absolute. Find and investigate the original cause and the effect will be resolved.
