Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Introduction to Solution-Oriented or Ericksonian Hypnosis xi
Elements of Solution-Oriented Induction
1 Permission 1
1.1 Accept, Normalize, Reassure, and Validate Whatever the Person Presents 3
1.2 Give Permission To 4
1.3 Give Permission Not to Have To 5
1.4 Note and Include Any Distractions, Difficulties, Negativity, or Resistance 6
1.5 Use Possibility Words and Phrases (Rather Than Mind Reading or Prediction Language) 7
1.6 Give Multiple Possibilities for Responding 8
2 Presupposition 10
2.1 Before 12
2.2 After 12
2.3 Rate 13
2.4 Timing 14
2.5 Depth 14
2.6 Means, Pathways, or Method 15
2.7 Awareness 15
2.8 Verb Tenses 16
3 Splitting 18
3.1 Make Distinctions 18
3.2 Split Something Previously Considered One Thing into Two or More Parts 19
3.3 Make the Split Nonverbally as Well as Verbally 20
4 Linking 21
4.1 Join Things Together Verbally 21
4.2 Link Something in Your Behavior or Speaking to Something the Person is Doing 22
5 Interspersal 25
5.1 Emphasizing Through Voice Volume 26
5.2 Emphasizing Through Voice Location 27
6 Introduction to the Other Elements 28
6.1 Description 28
6.2 Truisms 30
6.3 Matching 31
6.4 Guiding Attention and Associations 34
6.5 The Confusion Technique 36
The Culture and Territory of Trance Land
7 The Language of Trance 41
7.1 Use Passive Language 41
8 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Nature of Hypnosis But Were Too Deeply in Trance to Ask 46
8.1 Common Trance Indicators 47
8.2 Four Doorways Into Altered States 48
8.3 Why Use Trance? 51
8.4 When to Use Hypnosis 52
8.5 Trance Phenomena 56
8.6 Methods for Evoking Trance Phenomena61
9 The $64,000 Question: What Do You Do Once the Person is in Trance to Get the Clinical Result? 67
9.1 Goals of Traditional Versus Solution-Oriented Hypnosis 67
9.2 Class of Problems and Class of Solutions Model 68
9.3 To Trust Your Unconscious or Not; That Is the Question 77
9.4 How to Use This Knowledge to Do Hypnotherapy 81
9.5 Stories in Trance Work 83
10 Inclusion as Intervention 87
10.1 Permission 88
10.2 Inclusion of Opposites 90
10.3 Identifying Injunctions That Could Yield to Inclusion 91
11 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Solution-Oriented Hypnosis 93
12 Bad Trance/Good Trance 96
Bad Trance/Good Trance Bibliography 98
13 The Process of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy 99
Envoi: Leaving Trance Land 101
Ericksonian Bibliography 102