Hypnotizability: A Brain-Based Perspective (GPSCH)

Organization: Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis 

Website: https://gpsch.org/

Event Title: Hypnotizability: A Brain-Based Perspective 

Agenda:  Baylin_Timed_Agenda

Dates: January 24, 2027 

Location: Virtual 

CE: 3 

Contact :  Marcy Nadel, marcy1116@aol.com 

Description: Dr. Baylin will explain key aspects of neuroscientific knowledge about how hypnosis “works” and why some people are more hypnotizable than others.   He will also discuss the neurobiological processes relevant to how a therapist’s style of relating impacts a client’s openness to suggestions, including the processes of social buffering or “brain whispering” and storytelling 

Learning Objectives:  At the end of this learning experience, participants will be able to: 

 1)     Describe the 3 core brain networks and how hypnosis impacts the functioning of these networks (Jiang et al., 2017) 

2)     Describe why theta waves are important to hypnosis (Jensen et al., 2015) 

3)     Explain how relational processes of “social buffering” and storytelling help to induce openness to therapeutic suggestions (Lam, 2024; Oliver, 2023) 

4)     Describe 3 specific ways that individual differences in brain functioning affect hypnotizability in clients (Bocci et al., 2017) 

Speaker info: Jonathan Bayliln, PhD Bayllin_cv_2023