The article explores the historical roots of hypnotherapy, tracing back to Ibn Sina, who viewed healing as an interplay of mind, body, and soul. His ideas were overshadowed by colonial narratives that sought to erase indigenous healing practices. As a consequence, contemporary mental health approaches often dismiss holistic and soul-centered methods. However, when practiced with respect for cultural wisdom, hypnotherapy can facilitate healing by reclaiming ancestral narratives and addressing generational trauma, positioning itself as a transformative tool that transcends traditional Western paradigms.
Hypnotherapy, when practiced with cultural humility and liberatory intent, offers more than clinical symptom relief-it becomes an act of liberatory archaeology.
The colonial era did not only conquer land and labor. It was a time when language, bodies, memory, culture, and even dreaming were regulated by systems of control.
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