Precision Therapy by
Duncan McColl

The Pilgrim Self Hypnosis CD’s on this site are based on Duncan McColl’s unique form of fast therapy.

Training in this system is available within the UK.
Please see bottom of this page for details.

I can do no better than to quote from Duncan’s books.

Precision therapy is a compilation of many well-known and effective techniques augmented by healing processes that have evolved fairly naturally over a period of years in meeting the need to provide a fast and effective healing and life-enhancing service for clients, many of them therapists, doctors and nurses · · · all of them with uncommon or serious problems.

Clients, in brief, who lacked the time, the need and the tolerance for indulging in protracted mind games. The aim in precision therapy is focused on stimulating the abrupt shift in personal awareness that creates a 'spontaneous remission' and on achieving this aim, preferably, in one session.

The theme can be used to augment and not necessarily to replace any other discipline. It has been successfully conveyed to experienced hypo-analysts on a highly selective and individual basis and only to professionals who recognise that effective therapy, including precision therapy, must be subject to continuous review and improvement.

It is also recognised that this requires, in the therapist, an unusually high degree of self-understanding, flexibility, dedication and integrity.

Valuable lessons are learned in helping clients, including hypo-analysts and medical professionals, who have been subjected to one or several of the types of analysis restricted to the Victorian neo-Freudian concepts.

The firmly-held concept, for example, that a protective mechanism of mind represses events from consciousness which are too uncomfortable for the infant-mind to bear is only significant to a minor degree.

A far more important and obvious aspect is that significant elements can often fully or partially bypass consciousness. As the conscious levels function strictly on a linear basis, they fail to register more than a fraction of what is happening around. A significant compounding event, for example, that occurred just ten years earlier in the life of a fifty-year-old analyst was entirely outside his conscious recall until he verified the circumstances later.

The event bypassed his consciousness, not because it was repressed from memory but because it never registered. At the time of the significant traumatic event, he was blind drunk.

A more serious aspect of the shallow Victorian concepts of analysis still shared by many therapists today is the belief that a sensitizing event, to be significant, must involve a strong element of shame or guilt 'to be repressed'.

In effective healing-therapy, any element of shame or guilt clearly telegraphs a compounding event. The sensitizing event will be earlier and it will have induced strong feelings of fear or shock.

The too-common practice of merely revealing a shameful event to the client's consciousness and providing ego-boosting suggestions is as effective as dead-heading weeds in a flower-bed. Shame and guilt are shallow-minded concepts, part of our socio-religious conditioning, part of the charade, and our ego is part of the problem, not part of the healing.

The real sensitising events are seeded deeply. Threat to life influences are invariably involved. If they are not released to consciousness, like the roots of a dead-headed weed, they will develop again.

Precision therapy is designed to deal with the root of the problem. Care has been taken throughout to avoid the herd-mind trap of attempting to describe or define hypnosis.

As conscious or our usual everyday state of unconscious self-hypnosis, like love and other forms of confusion, is a natural state of whatever the human mind is constrained to be, something of the unknown and the unintentional inevitably creeps into it.
Unavoidably, the same will have happened to this book.
“Duncan McColl”

Duncan has given me permission to reproduce this explanation of precision therapy from his book. “Precision Therapy” available from this web site.

Training in this unique form of therapy and treatment can be obtained from Paul Hastings.

I have the privilege of being one of Duncan McColl’s trainers in Precision Therapy.