ABSTRACT
Despite their clinical utility, hypnotic phenomena are vastly underutilized by therapists in their work with patients. Whether this is due to uncertainty about how to use specific techniques constructively or how to elicit particular phenomena, or anxiety about not being able to obtain a desired result, this volume will guide hypnotherapists toward higher levels of clinical expertise. By describing varied hypnotic phenomena and how they can be used as vehicles of intervention, The Phenomenon of Ericksonian Hypnosis takes the therapist beyond these fundamental applications toward a broader, more sophisticated scope of practice. This immensely readable book addresses the selection, eliciting, and therapeutic use of hypnotic phenomena that are natural outgrowths of trance. It offers step?by?step instruction on eliciting age progression, hypnotic dreaming, hypnotic deafness, anethesia, negative and positive hallucination, hypermnesia, catalepsy, and other hypnotic phenomena. The book includes specific instruction on how to use the phenomena manifested in trance to provide more effective treatment. Numerous case examples vividly illustrate intervention with anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, dissociative disorders, depression, marital and family problems, sports and creative performance, pain, hypersensitivity to sound, psychotic symptomatology, and other conditions. The Phenomenon of Ericksonian Hypnosis will be used by therapists as a valuable clinical tool to expand their conceptualizations of hypnosis, and thus enable them to offer a wider repertoire of skills with which they can confidently treat clients.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|29 pages
Preludes
chapter Chapter 1|9 pages
An Overview of Ericksonian Hypnosis
chapter Chapter 2|13 pages
What are Hypnotic Phenomena?
chapter Chapter 3|5 pages
With a Buffet Spread Like That, How do I Know What to Eat?: Selecting Appropriate Hypnotic Phenomena
part II|246 pages
Hypnotic Phenomena for Intervention
chapter Section A|53 pages
Memory Functions
chapter Chapter 4|18 pages
Amnesia
chapter Chapter 5|15 pages
Hypermnesia
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
Posthypnotic Suggestion
chapter Section B|56 pages
Toying with Time
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Time Distortion: Contraction and Expansion
chapter Chapter 8|19 pages
Age Regression
chapter Chapter 9|20 pages
Future Progression
chapter Section C|28 pages
Duality of Reality
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
Dissociation
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Hypnotic Dreaming and Daydreaming
chapter Section D|36 pages
Dissociated Movement
chapter Chapter 12|12 pages
Catalepsy
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
Arm Levitation (Ideomotor Movement)
chapter Chapter 14|9 pages
Automatic Writing and Drawing
chapter Section E|70 pages
Modifying Perception
chapter Chapter 15|21 pages
Anesthesia and Analgesia
chapter Chapter 16|15 pages
Hyperesthesia
chapter Chapter 17|14 pages
On Experiencing What is not There: Positive Therapeutic Hallucination
chapter Chapter 18|18 pages
On not Experiencing What is There: Negative Therapeutic Hallucination
part III|10 pages
Apart from Intervention: Other Uses for Hypnotic Phenomena