This workshop will demonstrate through lecture, videotapes case examples and practice exercises how a working knowledge of "language games" can allow therapists to appropriately, respectfully and effectively address emotions in the context of psychotherapy and conversely, how misuse of language could potentially lead to a variety of negative consequences including client disenfranchisement, disempowerment, reification of problems and iatrogenic symptoms.
This workshop explores the use of hypnosis to create mystical or transcendental states of consciousness. As Maslow noted many years ago, even a brief or faint taste of such experiences seems to change people in dramatically positive ways. One momentary immersion can change a person's psychological and emotional condition forever, perhaps even altering basic hormonal, neurological and biochemical states.
Traditional hypnosis is defined as a state of 1) heightened suggestibility, 2) changed relationship with the hypnotist, and 3) altered state of awareness. Hypnotic susceptibility is supposed to be a personality trait. The traditional approach will be demonstrated and its contribution for understanding hypnosis will be discussed and compared to the Ericksonian one.
More than 1,000 judicial cases have discussed the relationship between hypnosis and the law. In order to protect the rights of patients, and to assist clinicians in providing competent and ethical therapy utilizing hypnosis, an understanding of the legal rules and professional guidelines for conducting clinical and hypnosis sessions will be presented.
This is an experiential "dream shop." Since most people spend between 1/4 and 1/3 of each 24 hours in sleep state, learning to make use of dreams can often facilitate and speed up therapy. This workshop offers a unique approach to using dreams therapeutically and will include small group practice in dream retelling and decoding. Come prepared to explore your dreams.
Change is a result of what patients experience not merely what they understand. We will study sculpting, role-playing, utilization strategies and concrete metaphors. Experiential methods can be used in every part of the therapy including assessment, treatment and homework. Lecture and demonstration.
Cloe Madanes will present new conceptual models for understanding the most difficult problems presented to therapy and step-by-step procedures for resolving them. The workshop will include the presentation of videotapes of real therapy sessions with individuals, couples and families. There will be opportunity for discussion.