In April we started with a look at what to do when your patient does not get hypnotised at the first sign of a rapid induction. During the explanation, I got side-tracked by a question and spent a while explaining my theory of hypnosis and the role of 40 Hz oscillations in the thalamus in the process of binding and, thus, hypnotic interventions. And that led to a (perhaps more useful) look at the importance of 'intent' in the practice of clinical hypnotism.

Then we moved on to a couple of new toys I've been developing lately; a context-free guided visualisation designed to enable patients to move from their present reality to their preferred reality, and a control for moving patients out of emotional straitjackets. The latter prompted a discussion about the nature of human emotion.

Somewhere in there I demonstrated a couple of rapid inductions on a new attendee who I'd not met previously, and then we went on to talk about a new framework for working with adult victims of childhood sexual abuse.

And in the lift on the way out I explained how to do hypnotism with the profoundly deaf.

I didn't get around to talking about hypnotherapy with private medical insurers. Another time, perhaps.

The November '07 session was filmed and a DVD is available.

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