The Hypnotherapist is not restricted to working with people in whom there is a severe
mental malfunction as are Psychiatrists for the most part. He or she is instead often
working with healthy and typical people who want help with a single problem in an
otherwise satisfactory life or to improve their performance in some way. Consequently
the Hypnotherapist can form a clear idea of the range of ways that people normally deal
with life: there is not the Psychiatrist's exclusive emphasis on severe malfunction.