Üsküdar University Continuous Education Application and Research Center (ÜSEM) and Traditional and Complementary Medicine Application and Research Center (GETİPMER) hosted Expert Psychologist Sebahattin Ertuç as the guest of the “Clinical Hypnosis Talks” program. Applied humanist hypnosis was performed during the online program. In a live session example, Expert Psychologist Sebahattin Ertuç, who applied the 'inner child' method, said: “There is an image of both a collective child and an individual child within us. Generally, everyone's subconscious age is seven. No matter our age, the presence of our inner child is always somewhere within us. When we lose our joy of life, when we get depressed, when we feel tense, angry, or alienated from life, these are some ‘come save me’ cries from our inner child.”
“The inner child is our life energy”
Expert Psychologist Sebahattin Ertuç, who demonstrated methods to heal the wounds of our inner child using the inner child method, said: “When they talk about the inner child, they say 'be at peace with your inner child.' In which situations do we apply the inner inner child technique? While they tell you to be at peace with your inner child, not much theoretical information is shared about where that child is, how to meet and reconcile with them, or how to heal their wounds. The term 'inner child' is more commonly applied in cognitive behavioral therapies. When we talk about hypnosis humanist symbolic therapy, the inner child is our life energy. It is our vitality, our essence, life itself, and truly our element of balance. It's like the saying 'what a person is at seven, they are at seventy.' So, essentially, everyone's subconscious is seven years old. Therefore, since the concepts of time and space are more related to consciousness, we only concretize our age at a perceptual level. But generally, we are all seven years old in our subconscious. The general age of the subconscious is also seven. When we speak of the subconscious, it is the continuation of our childhood perceptions in the records formed by the subconscious up to the age of six to eight. It is also everything we learn about children from television, books, films, etc.,' he said.
Expert Psychologist Sebahattin Ertuç, who conducted a live session, cautioned his client to discover their inner child, heal its wounds, and then reintegrate it into themselves.
“There is an image of both a collective and an individual child within us”
Ertuç, stating that no matter our age, our inner child is always somewhere within us, said: “There is an image of both a collective child and an individual child within us. When we lose our joy of life, when we get depressed, when we feel tense, angry, or alienated from life, these are actually some 'come save me' cries from our inner child. When we sometimes feel sad, angry, or when we are joyful and cheerful, our inner child is actually in connection with us. It operates linked to our right brain. In hypnosis, Ibn-i Sina generally has a very beautiful saying: 'The cause of all physical and spiritual troubles is the spiritual imagination in the human soul.' The subconscious is seven years old, and at that age, imagination is very active.”