bookmate game
Books
Stephen Gilligan

Generative Trance

This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions — Stephen Gilligan's generative trance. The first generation of trance work, the traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first 'knocking out' the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to programme the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person's own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and depotentiate it with confusion techniques.
336 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • kochhas quoted7 years ago
    world: conscious ego thinking is typically performed with the contracted muscles and inhibited breathing of neuromuscular lock, thereby causing a functional dissociation from the living world. Second, we identify with our ego position in a way that disidentifies with other positions in the field. Third, we main

On the bookshelves

fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)