Allergies

Most allergies are psychosomatic in origin. There are very few allergies acting independantly of our mind and body. Allergies are the body's way of expressing an emotional trauma. For instance, a man in his twenties develops an allergy to pasta. In therapy in transpires that he was traumatised by the break up with his Italian girlfriend 6 years before. He always associated pasta with Italy, and pasta reminded him of the sadness around his relationship breakup. His unconscious mind was trying to protect him from the sadness of his break up which pasta symbolically represented for him, rather than pasta per se. As soon as the unresolved emotions were processed, the man could eat pasta again. Another example is of a teenager who developed an allergy to cats. Three years earlier he had been scratched by an ill cat and developed a growth that had to be surgically removed (called 'cat scratch fever'). His body had learnt to associate cats with danger and engineered ways to avoid them through allergies. Allergies are the ultimate expression of the flight-or-flght response.

It can take as little as one session to resolve a simple allergic association, although occasionally additional sessions are needed if there are other underlying variables to address.

Recommended Therapy: psychological therapy followed by clinical hypnosis

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