IC07 Workshop 05 - Confusional Inductions and Story Techniques - Sonja Benson, PhD and George Gafner, MSW
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- Topic Areas:
- Workshops | Storytelling | Confusion Technique | Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2007
- Faculty:
- Sonja Benson, PhD | George Gafner, LCSW
- Duration:
- 1:49:51
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 07, 2007
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: When clients overanalyze, resist trance, or get stuck in rigid patterns, confusion can become a powerful clinical tool. This workshop demonstrates confusional inductions, alternating stories, amnesia techniques, and subtle vocal shifts that help therapists bypass conscious interference and engage the unconscious directly. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, participants learn how to use storytelling, ego strengthening, and strategic distraction to deepen trance and open space for change.
Syllabus Description: This faculty will discuss and demonstrate two confusional inductions along with a range of story applications for common clinical problems including anxiety and mood disorders, anger management, insomnia, ego-strengthening and unconscious problem-solving. Unconsciously-directed techniques will also be addressed. There will be discussion of the applications of story techniques in both hypnosis and standard psychotherapy.
Educational Objectives:
- To describe misspeak as an indirect technique.
- To describe when to use a two-operator induction.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Credits
Faculty
Sonja Benson, PhD Related Seminars and Products
Sonja Benson, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the U of MN. She has worked as a medical psychologist at the VAMC, in EAP programs for two Fortune 500 companies and in private practice. Sonja is a member of the APA and ASCH. She has published two books on hypnosis with George Gafner.
George Gafner, LCSW Related Seminars and Products
George Gafner, MSW, LCSW, recently retired as director of family therapy and hypnosis training at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Tucson, Arizona, and continues to work there in a hypnosis study in the gastroenterology department. He is the author of four previous books on clinical hypnosis as well as 35 journal articles.