
Webinar: Hypnosis and Creative Mind (Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis)
February 21
Organization: Central Texas Society of Clinical Hypnosis (CTSCH)
Website: http://ctsch.com/
Event Title: Hypnosis and Creative Mind
Dates: 02/21/2025
Location: Virtual
CE: 2.0
Contact: CTSCH@CTSCH.com
Abstract:
Over a century of Western models of hypnosis have shared a dual-mind hypothesis of conscious/unconscious minds. Dr. Gilligan will present his generative trance approach, regarding the positive and negative relationships that may obtain between the primary brain/mind experience of nonverbal/nature consciousness, and the secondary brain/mind mapping of the verbal/virtual mind. Creative Mind activates with the harmonious interconnection between the two minds, and problems develop and maintain themselves through a hostile dissociation between these “creative unconscious” and “conscious” minds. We will then see how this guides a psychotherapist in joining, positively valuing, and connecting the two modes to shift clinical problems into human resources. Theoretical models, clinical examples, and a guided process will illustrate the model.
Learning Objectives:
- To describe recent neuropsychological findings showing the complementary nature of the two brain/minds of the right and left hemispheres.
- To identify how dissociation between these two intelligences is a common underpinning of sustained suffering.
- To identify at least three ways generative hypnosis can be used to restore interconnectedness and thereby increase mental health, at both individual and collective levels.