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This podcast is the narrated version of my article Are You Accidentally Hypnotizing Your Clients?.
Why I encourage all therapists to learn about hypnosis, even if they aren’t planning on delivering hypnotherapy.
In this episode I talk about:
- 3 typical examples of accidental hypnosis in therapy
- What is hypnosis?
- Example 1: When a word triggers a flashback or abreaction
- Example 2: When a client can’t stop crying
- Example 3: When a client is locked in the past
- Physical indicators of natural trance states
- 5 key hypnosis facts to understand
Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:
References/Notes:
- For more information about the connection between dream sleep, the REM state, and hypnosis, see: Hypnosis, Dreaming, and REM.
- Spiegel, D, Detrick, D, and Frischholz, E.J. (1982). Hypnotizability and psychopathology. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 139, 431-437.
- Dr Noreen Tehrani, an occupational health and counselling psychologist specializing in posttraumatic stress, explains it like this: “If a trauma victim is debriefed in a state of high emotion, the process can increase the arousal to the point of overload, trapping the sensory impressions in the amygdala.”
- See: Can trauma really make you repress memories?
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