Does hypnosis, hypnotherapy, work on deaf or hearing-impaired beings?

[dant]

When I read some of the things that Laura has done with respect to
hypnotherapy, I often asked myself how this can be possible with
people who have certain impediments that might allow only a one-way
path for which trance-state recovery is not possible?

It is my understanding that hypnosis, hypnotherapy, or similar means
uses the hearing senses in order to be brought under a trance?

If you were say, deaf or hearing-impaired, perhaps hypnosis is possible
only through the eyes/lip-reading, perhaps with the aid of a hearing device,
but then how is it possible to bring the patient out of hypnosis, if the patient
were unable to 'see' and/or 'hear' the countdown?

I shudder to imagine of such a situation for which a patient, once brought
under hypnosis, due to some impediment, can never be brought out of hypnosis.

Has this ever been reported in case journals?

 

[atreides]

I think you have some ideas about hypnosis that are somewhat hollywood. As for hypnotizing hearing impaired people, I personally think it is possible, perhaps by having them regard signed instructions with a candle in between them and the therapist. The only thing needed for a trance is a rhythm and a subject willing to relax and concentrate, and a focus point.