ISSN: 2578-5095
Authors: Boltivets S*
The psychotherapeutic theory of hypnosis is a significant contribution of Dr. Eugene Hlywa in the development of medical psychology in the world. Scientific heritage of psychotherapist and hypnotherapist Dr. Eugene Hlywa returns only now, since he has deliberately become a defender of humanity in the first place as an ideological educator, later as an intelligence officer, and then as a warrior which led to his arrest, imprisonment and death sentence. Prior to his planned execution, he was in the prison of Rzeszów, a bunker-isolator for suicide bombers in the city of Dębica, a prison in Montelupich in the city of Kraków, concentration camps “Gross-Rosen”, “Mauthausen” and Ebensee”, where he was liberated along with other prisoners by the American army on 5th May 1945. During 1946-1973, Eugene Hlywa studied law, politics and psychology, worked at the Jung Institute in Zurich (Switzerland), earned a Master’s degree in psychology from the Ukrainian Free University of Munich (Germany) and defended his thesis on “Psychotherapy in the Western World and in the USSR” (1973), and a doctoral degree in psychology for his dissertation “Problems of personality in the light of modern psychotherapy and the unconscious” (1974). He was Member of the Australian Psychological Society, Australian Society of Hypnosis, International Society of Hypnosis, a Corresponding Member of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, Member of the League of Ukrainian Political Prisoners and Head of the Delegation of the Ukrainian Free University in Australia. The worldwide significance is the fact that it consists in the triple experience of a person of his own death in the first, second half of life, and the creation of it in the next, mature period, the act of life-long self-realization in the life of one of the most prominent hypnotherapists and psychotherapists of the world. Dr. Eugene Hlywa created a unique humanistic theory of hypnosis, related to the individual human authenticity, the embodiment of which, according to Hryhorii Skovoroda, is the correspondence of man with the highest spiritual values.
Keywords: Eugene Hlywa; Live For Ukraine; Onthological Belief; Psychotherapy; Hypnosis; Hypnotherapy
