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Ericksonian Approaches to Brief Hypnotic Psychotherapy – Intermediate Training
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Delve into hypnotic applications for specific clinical issues (from anxiety to the severely disturbed), and strategic utilization of the hypnotic phenomena. The program builds upon experiences of Module 1 Fundamentals, allowing you to enhance perceptual and generative skills for client monitoring and feedback, indirection, and other essential change processes.
Outline
- Advanced Patterns of Ericksonian Induction
- A Process Model of Ericksonian Psychotherapy
- Treatment Planning In Hypnosis
- Pain Management
- Habit Control
- Tailoring
- Medical Hypnosis
- Advanced Indirection
- Integration
Objectives
Week 1: ADVANCED PATTERNS OF ERICKSONIAN INDUCTION
- List three hypnotic phenomena that can be utilized as central dynamics in hypnotic induction.
- Discuss the importance of considering dynamics of control in hypnotic induction.
- Demonstrate a hypnotic induction approach that emphasizes client control.
Week 2: A PROCESS MODEL OF ERICKSONIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Explain the rationale for beginning treatment planning with a goal.
- List examples of isomorphic and complementary interventions that utilize positive hallucination and age regression.
- Formulate a realistic goal for an initial hypnotic session with an anxiety patient.
Week 3: TREATMENT PLANNING IN HYPNOSIS
- List three areas of assessment relevant of hypnotic treatment planning.
- Discuss the potential role of hypnotic phenomena in conceptualizing clinical problems.
- Cite considerations in the use of direct and indirect methods in hypnotic therapy.
Week 4: PAIN MANAGEMENT
- Describe three uses of hypnotic phenomena in the management of pain.
- Demonstrate the elicitation of glove anesthesia in a hypnotic process.
- Discuss the importance of thorough assessment of factors involved in pain cases.
Week 5: HABIT CONTROL
- Describe three hypnotic inductions for smoking cessation.
- Describe how to integrate hypnosis in habit control treatment.
Week 6: TAILORING
- Devise an Ericksonian Induction for a given patient
- Indicate how “tailoring” generates treatment.
Week 7: MEDICAL HYPNOSIS
- Describe how to integrate hypnosis in the treatment of various Physical illnesses.
- Describe how to integrate self-hypnosis technique in the treatment of physical illnesses.
Week 8: ADVANCED INDIRECTION
- Discuss the relevance of a therapist’s personal experience in formulating therapeutic stories.
- List five “themes” that can be utilized to generate therapeutic stories.
- Describe occasions when indirection is contraindicated.
Week 9: INTEGRATION
- Discuss the importance of supervision and/or consultation in the ongoing acquisition of hypnotic expertise.
- Describe factors in determining when to use hypnosis versus other treatments in given cases.
- Explain considerations in the utilization of hypnosis in treatment of personality disorders.
Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
Jeffrey Zeig, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of Milton H. Erickson Foundation. Dr Zeig is the architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, the Brief Therapy Conference, the Couples Conference, and the International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. He is on the Editorial Board of numerous journals; Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 29, Psychotherapy); and Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice in Psychology of the National Academies of Practice and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. A clinical psychologist, Dr. Zeig has a private practice, and conducts workshops internationally (40 countries). He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in 12 foreign languages.
Brent Geary, Ph.D.
Brent B. Geary, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Since 1988, he has also been the Director of Training for the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. Dr. Geary has presented internationally on Ericksonian topics since 1991 and throughout most of the United States. He is coeditor of two books with Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph,D., The Handbook of Ericksonian Psychotherapy and The Letters of Milton H. Erickson.
Lilian Borges, MA, LPC
Lilian Borges, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor with more than 18 years of experience doing and teaching psychotherapy, Ericksonian hypnosis and brief therapy. She is an invited teacher at the Milton Erickson Foundation for their extensive hypnosis training programs. Lilian has been conducting seminars in the United States and internationally about couples therapy, and Ericksonian therapy.
