Attachment-Focused Hypnosis in Psychotherapy: Relational Strategies for the Developmental Repair of Trauma and Chronic Pain (Eric Spiegel, Ph.D)

Website: https://eric-spiegel-phd.ce-go.com/relational-hypnosis-for-chronic-pain-and-functional-disorders

Event Title: Attachment-Focused Hypnosis in Psychotherapy: Relational Strategies for the Developmental Repair of Trauma and Chronic Pain

Dates: Friday, November 15-Sunday, November 17

Location: Virtual

CE: 20.0

Contact: Eric Spiegel, Ph.D., espiegelphd@gmail.com

Abstract:
This workshop presents two complementary relational hypnotherapeutic approaches that can be incorporated into existing psychotherapy for patients with a range of clinical presentations, including trauma, pain, and anxiety. In its utilization of shared attention, tone of voice, pacing, language, and imagery, clinical hypnosis as a state, relationship, and technique offers psychotherapists a relational and experiential means for utilizing the therapeutic relationship to heal arrested internal, structural, and developmental functioning in their patients. In the first portion of this workshop, participants will learn how hypnosis can facilitate attachment repair in patients with developmental arrests. The relational and psychological functions of attunement, representation, and mentalization are essential components of a secure attachment experience. The presenter will review the literature and describe how hypnosis can be applied in working with each of these areas of attachment to engage relatedness, develop internal working models, harness implicit relational knowing, and cultivate reflective functioning. In the second portion of this workshop, we will examine how hypnosis can be strategically utilized to evoke the three components of the therapeutic relationship: transference, the contemporary (‘real’) relationship, and the therapeutic alliance. We will review hypnotic strategies from each of these three components with the goal of differentiating when and how to elicit effect, create containment, and utilize rapport from the relationship to guide the treatment process. Participants will learn how hypnosis can serve as an ‘in-between’ state in which elements of this relational matrix can be utilized to great effect in advancing treatment process and outcome.

Learning Objectives:

• Define mentalization and explain how it develops during a healthy attachment process.
• Integrate polyvagal and neurological phenomena into a conceptual framework for how trauma disrupts development.
• Define hypnosis as a state, procedure, and relational experience.
• Summarize how hypnosis can be incorporated into trauma treatment by theoretical orientation & by phase of treatment.
• Match each of the 3 phases (attunement, representation, mentalization) of the ARM hypnotherapy model with the appropriate developmental function(s) being repaired.
• Articulate how the hypnotic elements of attunement, representation, and mentalization can be used to facilitate developmental repair.
• Explain how the ‘symbiotic alliance’ in the attunement phase of hypnotherapy augments the ‘working alliance’ in psychotherapy.
• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for enhancing attunement in the hypnotherapeutic relationship.
• Describe the 3 types of representational hypnotherapeutic approaches.
• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for developing mental representation of a secure attachment figure or ego state.
• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for increasing self & object constancy across divergent experiential, mental, and ego states.
• Offer an indirect and direct hypnotic suggestion for the purpose of developing mentalization.
• Formulate and deliver 2 hypnotic suggestions for increasing the capacity for reflective awareness about mental states in developmentally arrested
  patients.
• Understand how hypnosis hastens the development of new perspectives, realities, and understanding in the ‘in-between’.
• Formulate 2 hypnotic strategies for evoking transference.
• Formulate 2 hypnotic strategies for evoking the contemporary (real) relationship.
• Formulate 2 hypnotic strategies to evoke the therapeutic alliance.
• Conceptualize and implement a relational approach featuring hypnosis for the purpose of treating narcissistic wounds.
• Utilize 2 hypnotic interventions to regulate the effect during “triggers” of narcissistic wounds.
• Develop a hypnotic scene that addresses narcissistic spectrum presentation (e.g. false self) and facilitates developmental repair.
• Utilize principles of attachment & relationship to create a hypnotic scene for the purpose of modulating pain.
• Utilize principles of attachment & relationship to create a hypnotic scene for the purpose of modulating anxiety