Description:

Certain aspects of language can be especially useful for the purpose of bringing about behavioral changes. The nature of these changes is best known, but by no means limited to, its hypnotherapeutic application. They are, for instance, “corrective emotional experiences,” as defined by Franz Alexander. Long before Alexander, the philosopher Hans Vaihinger, in his famous work, “The Philosophy of As If” (1911 ), had investigated in great detail the fact to behave “as if something were the case, could bring about almost immediate changes in given contexts.

Educational Objectives:

1. To define the creation of an “as if” context.
2. To describe four examples of this type of intervention.

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