II. Indications
- Understand how client uses Hypnosis to guide management
- Assess Hypnotic Suggestibility
- Use in conjunction with history of prior dissociation
- Guide changes in thinking
- Work on recall for exam
- Guide changes in Perception
- Imagine clean air, good health after quitting Tobacco
III. Physiology: Phenomena
- Involuntary Movement (Raise Hand, Automatic writing)
- Convince patient they are in Hypnosis or trance
- Dual reality
- Example: Listen to lecture while drifting off
- Hypnotic dreaming uncovers unconscious thoughts
- Dissociative dreaming ("you're in Cayman islands")
- Time Distortion (e.g. waiting in operator queue)
- Age regression: Return to time of childhood
- Time expansion: Return to time of event
- The time your boss said no
- Pick apart the event piece by piece
- Time contraction: Review year education in 1 minute
- Age progression: Look to future ("when you grow up")
- Memory (Precaution: not a truth drug)
- Memory distortion or Controls
- Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
- Changed Perception (Mother kisses "owey")
- Make sweats taste or smell unpalatable
- Imagine Anesthesia or Analgesia