USING TRANCE STATES OR HYPNOSIS
IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELING
TRANCE SEMINAR 1

A Thirty-Hour Practical Seminar For Therapists and Counselors

  
 
 
 
    This seminar, geared to practising psychotherapists and counselors, deals with these areas:

  • Investigating the essential nature of trance states
  • Understanding and practising trance inductions
  • Elements of a comfortable technique for the practitioner
  • Gearing inductions to the client
  • Susceptibility to trance
  • Increasing depth of trance states
  • Using trance to deal with fears and phobias, creative blocks, conflict situations.
  • Trance for memory recovery
  • Trance and ego states (identity states, part selves, etc.)
  • Trance in the treatment of dissociative disorders
  • Trance and anomalous phenomena (unusual or paranormal experiences)
  • Finger signals and other ideomotor signals as aids to psychotherapy
  • The nature of suggestion. Direct and indirect suggestion. Use of suggestion for stress states, emotional growth, removal of unwanted conditioning.
  • Physical phenomena arising from trance, control of pain, physical conversion symptoms, effects on physiological functioning.
  • Trance and culture. Trance and groups. Group inductions.
  
 
Facilitator: Adam Crabtree

  
  Adam Crabtree, Ph.D., has been in private psychotherapy practice for more than twenty-five years. His professional and academic specialities include dissociative disorders and dissociative phenomena, the history of hypnotism, and the history of psychotherapy. His study of multiple personality and the possession syndrome, Multiple Man, appeared in l985 (republished by Somerville House Books in 1997). Since then he has published an annotated bibliography titled Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research (Kraus, 1988), journal articles on dissociation, and book chapters on the history of hypnotism and psychotherapy. His most recent books are From Mesmer to Freud (Yale University Press, 1993), an examination of the evolution of the alternate consciousness paradigm in psychotherapy, and Trance Zero (Somerville House Books, 1997), on trance in everyday life..

Companion reading: Adam Crabtree's Trance Zero

"In Trance Zero Adam Crabtree offers a masterful exploration of the varieties of trance experience. Under his expert guidance we discover how extraordinary are ordinary states of consciousness as well as how to rise out of toxic trance and awaken to the Ultimate Self that lies within. Written with clarity and compassion, this book offers the state of the art in understanding one of the least understood of all human phenomena."
--Jean Houston, author of A Mythic Life and A Passion for the Possible

"Adam Crabtree seems to me to be one of the most interesting minds in the field of modern psychology....In some ways this is his most challenging book so far. What makes it so stimulating is that he takes a basic and simple idea--that we all spend more time in "trance" than we realize-and then develops it in wholly unexpected ways....Crabtree suggests that our culture induces a trance state--in fact, many kinds of "micortrances"--and that we have to awaken from this trance before we can enter the condition he calls Trance Zero, a state of being in touch with our "inner guidance."...It seems to me that Adam is a new kind of psychologist--one who intuitively understands that the mind is far vaster and stranger than anyone suspected--and at the same time, stronger and more full of creative possibilities."
--From the Introduction by Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, The Occult, Mysteries, and Afterlife.

COURSE STARTS SEPTEMBER, 2003

The seminar will be held in three and four hour sessions at times to be determined by the participants, completing by the end of December 2003


SEMINAR FEE: $ 650.00

LOCATION: 316 DUPONT STREET (DUPONT SUBWAY STOP)


  
     
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