Symptoms and problems as trance-like competent, messengers of needs and how to utilize them in hypnosystemic hypnotherapy

Investigating involuntary processes in human experience from a competence-and resource-oriented hypnosystemic (Ericksonian) perspective, it can be shown that symptoms always occur as a nonverbal involuntary feedback in situations in which a person experiences a lack of something (emotional needs, relationship experiences, perspectives of wanted development, acknowledgement etc.).However, usually they are valuated and treated by clients and by health professionals as signs of deficit, pathology, incompetence. As a result, they are discounted and clients fight against them so that they escalate.With hypnosystemic strategies, which are based on Milton Erickson´s work and also on systemic constructivist concepts, these symptoms can be translated into very helpful information about the underlying needs and so can be understood as nonverbal competences out of the unconscious and can be utilized as resources for a healthy personal development. In the keynote it will be shown that how this can be reached in a very effective way and how the „problem trance of symptoms can be transformed constructively.