Is Alternative Healing? Your Therapist: R. Achmad Ridwan Soedirdjo,SH,CHt.CI. "Making Tomorrow Better Than Today" Hypnotherapy The word “hypnosis” (from the Greek hypnos, “sleep”) is an abbreviation of James Braid ‘s (1841) term “neuro-hypnotism”, meaning “sleep of the nervous system”. A person who is hypnotized displays certain unusual characteristics and propensities, compared with a non-hypnotized