15/02/2026
Dipl.-Psych. Paiman Maria Davarifard
Systemic Therapist · Hypnotherapist
Essay: Why Hypnosis Needs a Memory
Based on the book:
Hypnose – Protokoll: Aufnahme, Diagnostik, Therapie, Evaluation
by Paiman Davarifard 2018 GRIN Verlag
ISBN 978-3-668-80823-2
In psychotherapy, hypnosis often appears as a moment: the induction, the image, the change.
But in practice it is a process that begins long before the trance and continues long after it.
Over the years in my clinical work I noticed that many important therapeutic movements happen quietly. A patient hesitates at a certain word, reacts to a metaphor, or changes posture during imagery. These details are easy to feel in the session and easy to forget afterwards. Without a structure they remain impressions rather than knowledge.
This observation led me to develop a working protocol and eventually to write the book Hypnose – Protokoll: Aufnahme, Diagnostik, Therapie, Evaluation.
The intention of the book is simple:
to make hypnosis traceable.
Hypnosis should not depend on intuition alone.
It should allow understanding, reflection and continuity for therapist and patient alike. When the therapeutic path is documented, change becomes visible and reproducible. The session does not disappear after the experience; it becomes part of an ongoing process.
In my practice the protocol helps to:
– understand how each person enters trance differently
– adapt language and pacing to the individual
– follow therapeutic developments over time
– integrate hypnotic experiences into everyday life
The book therefore is not a technique manual, but a way of observing therapy more precisely.
For me, hypnosis is not a mysterious state but a form of focused communication.
Documentation gives this communication memory.
