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For the patient, pain is often linked to a problem of meaning. Can this meaning be altered by way of the patient-therapist relationship? A new anthropological model, symmetrical anthropology, combined with a new therapeutic practice combining virtual reality (VR) and hypnosis, may make it possible to do so. With the help of hypnosis, the therapist is able to share with the patient an experience that is at once immersive, interactive, and imaginative. Therapy using virtual reality offers a visual and auditory staging of the patient's problem in the form of a 3D model. This sculpture is transformed by a process of co-creation that brings together patient, therapist, and new culture in the form of a shared sculpture, to the point where there emerges a new understanding of the problem, along with a solution. The result is a new approach in psychopathology, but also a new model of hypnosis called hyperhypnosis (in reference to the hypertext logic of the internet), and a step beyond the technical use of these new so-called “digitalist” mediations which we call transdigitalist, in combination with a hyperhumanism.