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Unconscious Mentation and Hypnotherapy
by: D.H. Clayton Ph.d
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For nearly a hundred years the Freudian concept of the nature and function of the unconscious mind has dominated psychological thought. The governing premise of psychoanalytic theory, though scientifically unfounded (Erickson,M.,1993), none-the-less, has greatly influenced the ways in which psychotherapy has traditionally been practiced in both Europe and North America for the last ninety years. The Freudian unconscious most Westerners were weaned on was hiess und nass; incestuous and taboo. Mostly, however, it was primitive and irrational. Consequently, for the better part of this century, western man has learned to mistrust, as well as attribute all unacceptable beliefs and fears to his unconscious mind. In effect, he has made a part of himself “bad” and in need of redemption via various psychotherapies all designed in some way to make the unconscious conscious. The idea that the our unconscious minds process information separately from our conscious minds and use that information in ways we don’t consciously understand, seems to have frightened many during the last age of rationalism. Yet, the idea of a non-conscious mental life, with its own information processing abilities, began long before Freud and Breuer (1893-1895) published “Studies in Hysteria”. Hemholtz was first to receive notice for his idea that unconscious inferences determine conscious perception. Janet, a contemporary of Freud, observed the dissociative abilities manifested in human behavior and believed he had delineated the etiology of conversion reactions. (Ellenberger, 1970; Macmillan, 1990) Janet’s ideas, in turn, appear to have influenced William James (Taylor, 1983); leading us up to Hilgard’s(1986;1992) neo-dissociative theory of divided consciousness.
Treating Psychosomatic Disorders: Negotiating with the Unconscious in Trance
by: D.H. Clayton Ph.d
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A hypnotherapeutic approach using ideomotor signaling is presented as a way of treating psychosomatic disorders. The approach underscores respect for the integrity and autonomy of unconscious processes and takes into account the degree to which the symptomotology is acceptable and/or considered necessary by an individual’s total personality. The assumption is that if there is a willingness on the part of the personality to have the symptoms, there can also be a willingness to control the symptoms in order to avoid handicapping the personality. The reader is provided with a conceptual orientation which emphasizes rapport building with the unconscious, leading to strategies for symptom reduction and/or resolution via ideomotor signaling.
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La Biología del Trauma
Las de a continuación: son notas compiladas de: Sapolsky, R. M. (2017). Behave: The Biology of
Humans at Our Best and Worst. Penguin. También, notas compilados de: Kolk, Bessel Van Der,
(2015). The Body Keeps the Score. Brain, Mind, and Body in the healing of Trauma. New York, NY:
Penguin Books
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Research on Neurobiology of Trance
Summary of notes taken from the following authors and Sources: (1) Sapolsky, R.M (2007) Behave: The Biology of Humans at our best and worst. , Penguin books. (2) Kolk, Bessel van Der, (2015) The Body Keeps the Score. Brain, mind and body in the healing of Trauma. New York, NY. Penguin Books. (3) Pollan, M. (2018) How to Change your mind. Penguin Books.
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