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IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook The International Association of Counselors and Therapists RR #2 Box 2468, Laceyville, PA 18623 U.S.A. Professional Hypnotherapy Certification Seminar © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Official Training Manual Part 2 / Advanced 1 1 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook Table of Contents (Hypnosis Part 2 Advanced) Major Styles of Inducing Hypnosis ________________________________ 5 Categories of Experiences by Subjects ____________________________ 5 Beliefs about Hypnosis ________________________________________ 6 Further Definitions of Hypnosis __________________________________ 8 Hypnotic Action Techniques and the Pre-Induction Interview ___________ 9 Reframing __________________________________________________ 11 Content/Context Reframes _____________________________________ 12 Essence of Therapeutic Suggestion _______________________________ 14 Suggestions Regarding Hypnotic Inductions ________________________ 15 About Speed Inductions ________________________________________ 16 Thoughts About Resistance _____________________________________ 17 Induction Facilitators __________________________________________ 18 B.J. Hartman Induction ________________________________________ 19 Verbal Involvement Induction ____________________________________ 20 Physical Induction ____________________________________________ 21 Induction Utilizing Loss of Equilibrium _____________________________ 22 Seated Speed Induction _______________________________________ 23 Double Binds ________________________________________________ 23 George Bien Style Inductions ___________________________________ 24 © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Induction Protocol ____________________________________________ 26 Hypnotic Pain Management _____________________________________ 27 Changing Perceptions of Discomfort ______________________________ 28 Creating Dissociation __________________________________________ 28 Creating Anesthesia or Analgesia ________________________________ 29 2 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook Table of Contents (Hypnosis Part 2 Adv Continued) The Creation of Most Problems __________________________________ 31 Hypersuggestibility ___________________________________________ 31 Body Syndromes as Diagnostic Aids ______________________________ 32 Systematic Desensitization for Phobias ___________________________ 35 Fast Phobia Technique ________________________________________ 36 Basic Therapeutic Schools _____________________________________ 37 Erickson’s Hypno-Psychotherapeutic Work _________________________ 37 Erickson’s Hypnotic Utilization ___________________________________ 38 Resistances and Defenses _____________________________________ 38 Dealing with Resistances to Feeling Emotions ______________________ 39 Word Association Techniques ___________________________________ 40 Activation of Parts ____________________________________________ 41 Parts Work __________________________________________________ 42 Conference Room Technique ___________________________________ 44 The Connections of Feelings ____________________________________ 45 Hypnotic Dialogue ____________________________________________ 47 Possible Challenges During Hypnotic Dialogue _____________________ 48 Running and Changing the Incident _______________________________ 49 Inner Child Process ___________________________________________ 50 © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Bien’s 17-Step Hypnotherapy Process ____________________________ 51 Class Partner Evaluation Sheet _________________________________ 54 Intake and Client Release Forms ________________________________ 55 2 3 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook NOTE: Although many clients have been helped to date by use of these training methods, there is no guarantee by The Achievement Center, the International Association of Counselors and Therapists, and Instructor of this program, intended or implied, that the methods described in this seminar will be effective in any general or specific instance. The instructor has found no evidence that these methods are harmful to anyone. However, as with all new therapies, you must proceed at your own risk. If you are in doubt about the appropriateness of any of these methods to your own mode of practice, you may nevertheless benefit from having observed and studied these techniques. If a client is taking medication for conditions such as anxiety or depression, we advise you to have them consult with a physician before decreasing the dosage or stopping the medication. The Achievement Center, instructor, and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists assume no responsibility, expressed or implied, whatsoever, for guaranteeing the efficacy of this modality. © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The 4 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook “Hpnosis is the process of communication with the unconscious mind recognizable by the presence of unconscious response to suggestion, such response being characterized by lack of voluntary initiation.” (Barnett 1979) “Of course it was not I who cured,” said Black Elk, the Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. “It is the power from the other world, and the visions and ceremo- nies had only made me like a hole through which the power could come to the two- legged. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power would come through.” Three Major Styles for Evoking or Inducing the Trance State (Spiegel 1978) 1. Fear. One can be frightened into a trance state by the use of fear and coercion. 2. Seduction. Under appropriate conditions a person can be seduced into a trance state. This can be sexual, nonsexual, or a combination of both. 3. Instruction and/or Guidance. A person can simply be guided or instructed into a trance state. Six categories of experiences by subjects (Weitzenhoffer, 1980) 1. Autonomy: The hands are experienced as moving by themselves or are “wanting” to move (as if they had a will of their own) 2. Compulsion: They subject unsuccessfully tried to prevent the hands from moving, felt “compelled” to move his/her hands, hands seemed compelled, Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The i.e., “were forced” to move. 3. Unawareness: Subject is unaware that his hands moved. 4. Attraction or Force: Hands felt drawn or pushed together by a physical force, hands felt “like magnets” being drawn together. 5. Externalized control: Hands felt like objects moved by some external agents (but no force experienced). 6. Involuntary-automatic: Subject used the words “involuntary” or “automatic” in describing his/her experiences. 4 5 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook Beliefs About Hypnosis..... Franz Anton Mesmer (1748) held that hypnosis or mesmerism was due to a magnetic force called “animal magnetism,” Which emanated from the body of the hypnotizer and affected the subject. Animal magnetism was, of course, discredited in Mesmer’s time. Jean-Martin Charcot (1889) considered hypnosis to be a symptom of hysteria. Theory was discredited by the fact that normal individuals are readily hypnotizable. Pierre Janet (1920) believed that hypnosis abolished volition and left only a reflex-like type of behavior which was dissociated from consciousness. This theory was discredited when it was demonstrated that there was hyper-acuity of all of the senses during hypnosis, that amnesias could be removed by suggestions of the hypnotic operator and that amnesia would not always occur spontaneously. Sigmund Freud (1922) compared hypnosis to being in love. He said that the hypnotic relation is the devotion of someone in love to an unlimited degree but with sexual satisfaction excluded. Clark L. Hull (1933) based his theory of hypnosis primarily on two interrelated postulates: (1) hypnotic suggestibility is a habit phenomenon; and (2) the most important characteristic of a habit phenomenon is that it is facilitated by practice. Lewis Wolberg (1948) held that hypnotic phenomena are due to a psycho- somatic reaction consisting of a reciprocal and dynamic interaction of physiological and psychological factors. He regarded that hypnosis is both physiological and psychological in character. © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Achievement Center © 1989, 1993, 2003 The Theodore Sarbin (1950) contended that the hypnotized subject strives to take the role of the hypnotized person, that there’s a similarity between role taking in drama and in hypnosis. Success in both mediums depends on: (1) the accuracy of the actor’s perception of the role demands; (2) the motivation to perform; and (3) skill or aptitude in role enactment. André Weitzenhoffer (1953) contended that the voice of the hypnotic operator becomes an extension of the hypnotic subject’s psychic processes, resulting in a large variety of perceptual alterations. 6 IACT Professional Development Division / Advanced Hypnotherapy Workbook Beliefs About Hypnosis Continued..... Ivan Pavlov (1957) believed that hypnosis was a partial sleep and compared hypnosis with the tonic immobilization in animals. Modern research has demonstrated that hypnosis has the psychological indices of the conscious state. Theodore X. Barber (1957) believed that successful suggestibility does not depend upon a formal hypnotic induction procedure nor achievement

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