A guide to trance land : a practical handbook of Ericksonian and solution-oriented hypnosis /

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Author / Creator:O'Hanlon, Bill. 1952-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Description:xviii, 106 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7729392
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ISBN:9780393705782 (pbk.)
0393705781 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction to Solution-Oriented or Ericksonian Hypnosis
  • Elements of Solution-Oriented Induction
  • 1. Permission
  • 1.1. Accept, Normalize, Reassure, and Validate Whatever the Person Presents
  • 1.2. Give Permission To
  • 1.3. Give Permission Not to Have To
  • 1.4. Note and Include Any Distractions, Difficulties, Negativity, or Resistance
  • 1.5. Use Possibility Words and Phrases (Rather Than Mind Reading or Prediction Language)
  • 1.6. Give Multiple Possibilities for Responding
  • 2. Presupposition
  • 2.1. Before
  • 2.2. After
  • 2.3. Rate
  • 2.4. Timing
  • 2.5. Depth
  • 2.6. Means, Pathways, or Method
  • 2.7. Awareness
  • 2.8. Verb Tenses
  • 3. Splitting
  • 3.1. Make Distinctions
  • 3.2. Split Something Previously Considered One Thing into Two or More Parts
  • 3.3. Make the Split Nonverbally as Well as Verbally
  • 4. Linking
  • 4.1. Join Things Together Verbally
  • 4.2. Link Something in Your Behavior or Speaking to Something the Person is Doing
  • 5. Interspersal
  • 5.1. Emphasizing Through Voice Volume
  • 5.2. Emphasizing Through Voice Location
  • 6. Introduction to the Other Elements
  • 6.1. Description
  • 6.2. Truisms
  • 6.3. Matching
  • 6.4. Guiding Attention and Associations
  • 6.5. The Confusion Technique
  • The Culture and Territory of Trance Land
  • 7. The Language of Trance
  • 7.1. Use Passive Language
  • 8. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Nature of Hypnosis But Were Too Deeply in Trance to Ask
  • 8.1. Common Trance Indicators
  • 8.2. Four Doorways Into Altered States
  • 8.3. Why Use Trance?
  • 8.4. When to Use Hypnosis
  • 8.5. Trance Phenomena
  • 8.6. Methods for Evoking Trance Phenomena
  • 9. The $64,000 Question: What Do You Do Once the Person is in Trance to Get the Clinical Result?
  • 9.1. Goals of Traditional Versus Solution-Oriented Hypnosis
  • 9.2. Class of Problems and Class of Solutions Model
  • 9.3. To Trust Your Unconscious or Not; That Is the Question
  • 9.4. How to Use This Knowledge to Do Hypnotherapy
  • 9.5. Stories in Trance Work
  • 10. Inclusion as Intervention
  • 10.1. Permission
  • 10.2. Inclusion of Opposites
  • 10.3. Identifying Injunctions That Could Yield to Inclusion
  • 11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Solution-Oriented Hypnosis
  • 12. Bad Trance/Good Trance
  • Bad Trance/Good Trance Bibliography
  • 13. The Process of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
  • Envoi: Leaving Trance Land
  • Ericksonian Bibliography