Psychotherapy Services - Seminars for the Helping Professions - Clinical Issues in Psychotherapy and Counseling


	IDEODYNAMIC THERAPY/TRAINING GROUP TRANCE SEMINAR 2 A Six-Month, 18-Hour Training Course in the Use of Finger Signals

	This is a new concept in group/training experience geared to therapists and therapists in training. It involves the following elements: 1. Ideodynamic Psychotherapy Work. This entails the use of finger signals (or other ideodynamic movements) to access the inner or unconscious mind. Starting with a symptom or problematic condition whose source is not known to the conscious mind, automatic movements of the fingers are employed to reveal the source of the condition and the means of resolution. This work will be experienced by the individual members of the group and will be conducted by Adam Crabtree. 2. Group Witnessing. As ideodynamic therapeutic work is done with an individual group member, the other group members will witness the work. This is not an interaction group, and the work done is not based on interaction between members. However, the individual work naturally serves as a therapeutic experience that also affects those who witness it. 3. Training in Ideodynamic Work. An important part of the experience is learning about using ideodynamic signaling in psychotherapeutic practice. There will be explanations and demonstration of how the signals are established and used in the first group meetings, and at the end of each group there will be time to respond to the work and learn about the principles involved in its use.
	Conducted by 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.. STARTING DATE: Late January 2004 FREQUENCY: One three-hour meeting per month, January-June 2003 FEE: $450.00 GROUP SIZE: Limited to 8 persons PREREQUISITE: Trance Seminar 1 ( Using Trance States or Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Counseling)

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