CLINICAL HYPNOSIS

PRACTITIONER DIPLOMA - Level Two Modules

MODULE 1
ADVANCED PRACTICAL HYPNOTIC SKILLS

• Magnetic induction
• Dissociative induction’s
• Extra corporeal imaging
• Indirect induction’s
• Rapid emergency induction’s
• Miscellaneous creative imagery deepening
• Dissociate deepening
• Que word deepening Erickson
• Minds eye deepening
• Alert hypnosis
• Time distortion deepener
• Quantum deepening
• Re-framing in and out of trance
• Ideo motor therapy
• Hypnotic triggering of resources
• Neuro linguistic programming protocols
• Mind/ Body Hypnotherapy Approaches

MODULE 2
DISSOCIATION

• Metaphorical dissociation
• Psychological barrier dissociation
• Persona dissociation
• Mind garden dissociation
• Specific element symbolisation
• Stage/distancing dissociation
• Television screen dissociation
• Cinema screen advanced dissociation
• Role reversal dissociation
• Computer dissociation
• Analgesic dissociation
• Automatic writing dissociation
• Re-integration
• Quantum energy dissociation/ re integration

MODULE 3
REGRESSION

• Ethical considerations
• Managing the regressed patient
• Communication in regression therapy
• Regressive dissociation
• Diary
• Calendar
• Cinema
• Crystal ball
• Computer screen
• Patient orientated regression

MODULE 4
PSEUDO-ORIENTATION

• Ethical considerations
• Managing the patient
• Communication in future orientation therapy
• Temporal orientation dissociation
• Miscellaneous future orientation
• Future possibilities technique
• Solution focused therapy
• Future resource therapy
• February man approach (Erickson)

MODULE 5
MISCELLANEOUS THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

• Content free therapy
• Time distortion
• Memory construction
• Amnesia
• Aversion protocols
• Behavioural desensitisation techniques
• Flooding
• Therapeutic laughter technique
• Miscellaneous phobia technique
• Anatomical triggering- anchoring
• Hypnosis with children
• The Braiding approach
• Inducing hypnosis in children
• Therapy with children
• Working with parents
• Symptom substitution
• Working with resistance

MODULE 6
SPECIALISED PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION

• Ericksonian approaches
• Accessing questions
• Apposition of opposites
• Bind of comparable alternatives
• Confessional suggestions
• Covering all possibilities
• Implied directive
• Interspersal technique
  Paradoxical suggestions
• Presuppositions
• Metaphors
• Pre empting
• Resistance based approaches

MODULE 7
BIOLOGICAL - MIND BODYASPECTS

• Cerebral dominance
• Right and left hemispheric functioning
• Context and content
• Information processing
• Central nervous system
• Autonomic nervous system
• Sympathetic responses
• Role of the parasympathetic
• Fight or flight response
• Catecholamines
• Basic synaptic transmission
• Neural pathways
• Basic brain anatomy
• Role of anxiety in psychosomatic illness
• Autonomic response to imagery
• Psychoneuroimmunology
• Immune response

MODULE 8
PAIN CONTROL

• Gate theory
• Definitions (Analgesia cf. Anaesthesia)
• Types of pain
• Hypnosis care in emergency trauma
• Constant pain syndrom
• Burn care
• Eclectic approach
• Dissociative analgesia
• Glove anaesthesia
• Thermal approaches
• Symptom manipulation
• Re-framing
• Past resources
• Miscellaneous coping strategies
• Liasing with health care professionals

MODULE 9
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS

• Stress
• Confidence
• Low self-esteem/ reactive depression
• Performance related anxiety
• Public speaking
• Insomnia
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Miscellaneous sleep disorders
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Nail biting
• Weight control
• Eating disorders
• Bulimia nervosa
• Obsessive compulsive disorders
• Panic disorders
• Psychosexual dysfunction
• Phobias/fears
• Erythrophobia
• Simple phobias
• Process phobias
• Tinnitus
• Dystonias
• Childhood anxiety disorders

MODULE 10
A SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE/ PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

• Ethical practice
• Gaining business
• Advertising
• Working with the media
• Referrals
• Working with medical practitioners
• Time keeping
• Booking patients
• Confidentiality
• Legal aspects
• Insurance
• Premises