“Hypnosis is a natural state of aroused, attentive focal concentration
with a relative suspension of peripheral awareness.
“It involves an intensity of focus that allows the
hypnotized person to make maximal use of innate
abilities to control perception, memory and somatic
function.
“Spiegel, 1994”: Hypnosis is power of inner self
which is mostly undiscovered.
Hypnosis is a strong key of self rediscovery
and by going through trance state that self
will explore inner energy and power.
Experiencing alter state of mind will help to
understand the root of inner and outer conflict.
An individual through hypnosis can deal with
her or his chronic pain, for ego-strengthening,
self efficacy and confidence, anxiety, fear
of flight or heights, sleep disorders, emotional
disorders, sexual dysfunction and list goes on.
Clinical Hypnosis is useful in a very broad
context such as: sport, education, medical filed,
dentistry, pain management, forensic sciences,
addiction, organizational redevelopment,
business, psychotherapy, psychiatry, obesity,
stress, depression, panic attack, fear, fear
of height, phobia, tics and lots more.
Hypnosis is strong tool that can use for
purpose of growth and development
of desired and needed satisfaction of the self.
Self-Hypnosis: Client is given the time
to participate actively in the safe environment.
This is part of treatment program rather than a
self-help process. Some believe all hypnosis is
self-hypnosis and some other still believes that is
auto-hypnosis as reflexive biological state.
Trance state stimulate unconsciously and it has
own complex and unique behaviour.
Ability to enter such state (trance) is natural
behaviour yet, most often we are not aware
of it or just we do not want use it.
Trance state that happens in a post traumatic
stress or dissociation’s also derived from natural
state of trance.
Dissociation’s
most often happen to protect self and because
they do functions separately rather than
systematic integration then they become part
of pathological system itself.
In treatment these separate parts must identify,
modify and integrated to the self as whole.
In working within hypnosis I use wording,
images, memory, story even automated
writing and drawings.
I teach how to become aware of ones
unconscious mind’s power and most
importantly how to use such power for
benefit of self. In trance state most of
the work will done by the client rather
than I, matter of fact I am facilitator in
this regard contrary to believe other wise
Gestalt Ottawa
January 13. 2018
Clinical Hypnosis
A Multidisciplinary Approach
William C. Wester, II, EdD
Alexander H. Smith, Jr., EdD
Symbolic Psychotherapy
The process of fostering changes in a person
without a direct discussion of the reason for
certain therapeutic interventions, allows a
patient the illusion of control that symptoms are
changing under his care and direction. Symbolic
psychotherapy entails the use of homework
assignments that incorporate indirect reflection
of the patient’s symptoms.
The following quotation is offered to illustrate
Erickson’s belief about psychotherapeutic fact:
…I think about the elaborate schools or theoretical
schools of psychotherapy. Freud developed
psychoanalysis to apply to all people, male or female,
of all ages, in all situation, in all cultures, and he uses
the same format on all and developed his school of
psychotherapy to apply to all times.
He analyzed Moses, Edgar Allen Poe, Winnie the Pooh.
I do not think that any school or theoretical school is any
more than a religion to which you try to fit the patient.
Adlerian schools emphasize masculinity, inferiority, and
compensatory reaction.
Adler never did any experimental work to prove his
concepts of how a right-handed person writes, how a
left-handed person writes any better than a right-handed
person …compensatory inferiority with compelling drive…
a most compelling thing.
And there is a Karen Horney with her school of
psychoanalysis and Sullivan’s school… Jungian school…
Religion School… all well developed orderly
psychotherapeutic schools of thought to which the
patient is fitted.
I think the individual is the individual entirely, so therapists
should be in accord with the individual’s own personality,
own life experience. Nobody can understand anybody
else’s language.
I had you put down whether you came from an urban
or rural background because that has big influence on
you (referring to an exercise required of participants).
And I grew up on the farm. I left it more than 50 years ago.
Now on the farm you ate breakfast, dinner and supper.
In the city I learned you eat breakfast, lunch and dinner,
never supper.
My sister left the farm nearly 50 years ago and lived in the city.
I hadn’t seen her in a number of years. She made a trip around
the world and she was relating her travel within this country and
that country and son on.
My wife, who grew up in Detroit, happened to hear my
sister and me talking about supper. She listened for a while
and she added, “How come you are talking about supper?”
and we realized that our farm, so long ago, still carried over
an old association, no matter how old has an influence on you.
And it is amazing the amount of influence your past has….
Gestalt Ottawa
May 10.2018