Fundamental Hypnosis Workshop Utilization With Lili Lilian an Borg Borges es Zei Zeig g
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“Utilization is the readiness of the therapist to respond strategically to any and all aspects of the patient or the environment.” (Zeig, 1992)
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“The therapist/hypnotist uses the person’s usual mental habits, resistance, symptoms, behavior, delusions, or any other aspect of the person’s internal or external behavior in service of treatment or trance induction.” (O’Hanlon and Hexum, 1990)
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The therapist gets into a “state” of responding positively to every stimulus that comes to him. It is a way of not letting the circumstances guiding him/her, but guiding the circumstances him/herself, using whatever happens to achieve his goals for the therapy or the trance induction. It is also a way of seeing the good side of the situation or the virtue of our faults” as Jeffrey Zeig says.
Definition “We view hypnotherapy as a process whereby we help people utilize their own mental associations, memories, and life potencials to achive their own therapeutic goals. Hypnotic suggestion can facilitate the utilization of abilities and potencials that already exist within a person but that remain unused or underdeveloped because of a lack of training or understanding. The hypnotherapist carefully explores a patient’s individuality to ascertain what life learnings, experience, and mental skills are available to deal with the problem. The therapist then facilitates an approach to trance experience wherein the patient may utilize these uniquely personal internal responses to achieve therapeutic goals.” (Erickson & Rossi, 1979, pg.1)
Utilization in a trance induction • Incorporation • Ratification • Positive attribution
Utilization of Resistance “If they bring in resistance, be grateful for that resistance. Heap it up in whatever fashion they want you to-really pile it up. But never get disgusted with the amount of resistance…whatever the patient presents to you in the office, you really ought to use” (Erickson in Erickson & Rossi, 1981, p.16)
Utilization in psychotherapy: • Patient’s language and metaphors • Interests and motivation • Beliefs • Behavior • Symptom • Resistance • Strength • Hypnotic Phenomena
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De Shazer, Steve. Utilization: The Foundation of Solutions. In Zeig, Jeffrey(Ed), Developing Ericksonian Therapy – State of the Art. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1988. Erickson,M & Rossi, E. Hypnotherapy. New York: Irvington, 1979 Erickson,M. & Rossi,E. Experiencing Hypnosis. New York: Irvington, 1981 O’Hanlon, William H. An Uncommon Casebook-The Complete Clinical Work of Milton H. Erickson, MD. New York: Norton, 1990. O’Hanlon, William H. Solution-Oriented Hypnosis-An Ericksonian Approach. New York: Norton, 1992. Zeig, Jeffrey. Experiencing Erickson-An Introduction to the Man and His Work. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1985. Zeig, Jeffrey. A Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson. New York: Brunner/ Mazel, 1980. Zeig, Jeffrey. Ericksonian Methods-the Essence of the Story. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1994. Zeig, Jeffrey. An Ericksonian Phenomenological Approach to Therapeutic Hypnotic Induction and Symptom Utilization. In Zeig, Jeffrey(Ed) Developing Ericksonian Therapy-State of the Art. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1988
