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Response One
You cannot change, as you stated the memory of the abuse, you can only
re-educate the memory so that it comes to an understanding of what happened. You
can never eliminate a memory!
This is the session that can be used using (TMT) Total Mind Therapyฎ as created
by me.
1) Pretalk
2) Induction
3) Ego Strengthening
4) Past Negative Visualization (Have client visualize herself (negative
personality) and have her now eliminate this negative personality).
5) Future Positive Visualization (Have client Visualize herself in the future
(positive personality, the way she wants to be). What client can visualize can
and will be reality.
6) Regress to the first time of abuse. (Have client relive the abuse, several
time with each time removing more of the pain, desensitizing the client to the
abuse).
7) Inner child re-education (Re-educate the client (child) explaining that it
was not her fault and that the older her will never allow this to happen to her
again).
8) Chair Therapy (Have client face the abuser(s) and let her have her say to the
abuser(s), let her get it all out. Have client play both parts as the abuser and
abusee).
9) Forgiveness Therapy (Have client forgive the abuser(s) but, enforce to the
client that she is not condoning the actions of the abuser(s). Then have client
forgive herself.
10) Suggestion therapy/ ego strengthening (compounding)
11) Hypnotic Post suggestions
12) Emerge
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Response Two
I put some questions inside < > above. I realize the poster probably didn't have
the information at the time this was posted. So, I'm hoping an update by the
original poster can provide some additional info.
Here goes,
1st, the details of the client history, especially family support issues are
critical. It's not just what happened to her, but what she believes about it
that has formed how she perceives and reacts to the world today.
Her subjective childhood conclusions regarding the awareness and reactions of
family, and of real or perceived authority figures in overtly or covertly
addressing, ignoring or rationalizing the incident or series of incidents, are
powerful shapers of her adult, subconscious beliefs about herself.
For sexual trauma, the post-puberty relationship history between the client and
non-family members often reveals valuable evidence of how her subconscious
beliefs have shaped her current presumptions, automatic reactions & behaviour.
Clues to symptom areas & triggers start with her symptom description & her
perception of how the past trauma is interfering in her present life.
Unrealistic or unsupported assumptions of guilt or responsibility (if my child
self had or hadn't done xyz...),
Fatalistic beliefs or attitudes (It always...nothing makes any difference...no
matter what I do...etc.), or pre-emptive relations patterns (I always leave
1st... I knew he/she wasn't right for me but...)
and of course dis-proportionate reactions or obliviousness to ordinary
situations are all clues.
2nd, find out what are her goals for hypnotic therapy on this issue?
What are her expectations if this course of therapy is successful? Goals &
expectations don't always match...
Her answers may surprise. Knowing her therapy expectations helps to avoid
creating a client who is clinically cured yet profoundly unhappy with her
sessions because of uncommunicated or unrealistic expectations.
3rd, My usual protocol may not be much different from what you do. It consists
of:
1. Using a history-interview to look for the associations, cues and markers
scattered among the client's telling of the history of the problem. These are
often present without the client's awareness of them.
2. Using regression-to-source to verify the relevance of the associations, cues
and markers picked from the client's conscious awareness, and to find their
counterparts in the subconscious that point to the problem's origin(s). -this
includes following the causal chain thru past life episodes if they present.
3. Using the simple technique of memory-repetition to purge emotions trapped
within the traumatic memory(ies) and,
4. reframing-the-traumatic-memory(ies), after purging the emotional charge(s).
(p.s. "reframing" is done only if needed. Often it occurs spontaneously on it's
own.)
(p.p.s. my "reframing" technique does NOT erase or alter memory.)
5. Rarely, I will use one or more sessions of ego-strengthening scripts with
between session reinforcement, BEFORE starting step 2.
If I use scripts, it's usually done only AFTER finishing the last step (#3 or #4
depending on the client's needs.) After this point I will freely use scripts to
help develop whichever one of the positive Self-Value perceptions and Character
habits listed below that may be needed:
1. Non judgmental Honesty,
2. Validating Self-Respect
4. a realistic perspective on Personal Responsibility,
5. Validating Self-Tolerance
6. Bringing Internal Emotions & Decision making into conscious awareness
7. Validating Joy.
8. Validating setting/enforcing clear boundaries.
Especially for people who've experienced emotional trauma, these are the
internal personal or interpersonal social skills that were stunted or distorted
by the after-effects of the experience.
To me this is different from using hypnosis to superimpose a variety of scripts
to cover or change the trauma symptoms. I feel releasing the pain, and/or
re-framing the internal assumptions that were created by that pain, should be
done before using scripts to change behaviour or perspective. Otherwise that
pain is still a distorting influence within their subconscious.
Because of the unique access hypnosis provides, the hypnotherapist is now an
authority figure to her subconscious. One whose verbal & non-verbal
communication bypasses her conscious filters. I feel that it is important for
the hypnotherapist's communications, (to her that includes the scripts used) are
either ego-reinforcing or neutral of any value judgments.
Comments or questions are always welcome...
Response Three
Hi - sounds as if you are doing well, I think ego strengthening is important,
as is strengthening her boundaries. I have found that to work effectively the
first few sessions have to be handled correctly - start and finish on time, do
not cancel appointments, I explain during the first consultation how I work and
establish rules for contact outside consultations - I do this to establish clear
boundaries whilst reducing the client's anxiety.
Spend time on reducing anxiety and tension, build up trust and create a safe
place for her. Re-frame acting out behaviour as coping strategies. Work on the
here and now issues as much as necessary without addressing trauma based
material too early. How is the abuse affecting her life, panic attacks, eating
disorders, relationship problems? work on these first.
When she is less anxious and you have built up a trustful relationship, I would
start work on the traumatic material directly - inner child work, guided
imageries, regressions, dissociative techniques, letter writing, drawing,
diaries etc.
I then go through the different stages remembering, believing it happened,
breaking the silence, understanding it was not their fault, making contact with
the child within, trusting yourself, grieving and mourning ..... and of course
anger that is a powerful and liberating force. And whether to confront or not,
this is not necessary in my opinion. (I used The Courage to Heal Book for this
by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis) It helped me anyway.
I have found in the past that if I deal with the traumatic material too early
the client has blocked me in the next session.
I am sure there is much much more work than I have put here, if we all put in
what we know, we can build up a good strategy between us.
regards
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