They frequently discuss how to determine one's ability at entering hypnosis but do not discuss when hypnosis should be used. Hypnotherapy is, in essence, a process of communication between the client and the therapist. The exchange of communication need not necessarily be limited to words. Individuals with repressed anger may present a certain fa ade but might feel quite differently from what their appearance shows. It is also possible that people choose to say things that they do not mean in order to protect their integrity at a given time.
Clients frequently censor verbal information.
One learns early in life that many feelings are not allowed to be expressed openly and need to be repressed. As a result, children learn that self expression is not tolerated and with that type of behavior being repeated, the 'good' child grows up with a lot of unresolved conflicts. Freud described that expression with the term parapraxis. By parapraxis, I understand the occurrence in healthy and normal people of such events as forgetting words and names that are normally familiar to one, forgetting what one intends to do, making slips of the tongue and pen, misleading, misreading, mislaying things and being unable to find them, losing things, making mistakes against one's better knowledge, and certain habitual gestures and movements. Parapraxes are full blown psychical phenomenon and always have a meaning and an intention.