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November 3 - 5, 2023

Attachment-Focused Hypnosis in Psychotherapy: Relational Strategies for the Developmental Repair of Trauma, Somatic Pain, and Anxiety

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This workshop presents two complementary relational hypnotherapeutic approaches which 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 affect, 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.

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Dates: 11/3/23-11/5/23

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