Ginsburg hypnosis training. Mikhail Ginzburg - Ericksonian hypnosis: a systematic course. N. Malofeev

Ginzburg MikhailRomanovich, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, leading researcher at the Moscow Psychological and Social Institute, leading researcher at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.
Born 1949 Graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, graduate school at the Institute of General and Educational Psychology. 1976 - Candidate of Psychological Sciences, 1996 - Doctor of Psychological Sciences ("Psychology of Personal Self-Determination"). M.R. Ginzburg carries out extensive teaching activities. He teaches courses on personality psychology, psychology of motivation, psychology family relations, psychodiagnostics. In 1978-1980 M.R. Ginzburg taught psychology at Dong Doc University (Vientiane, Laos); in 1989 he was a summer teacher psychological school in Europe (Leipzig).
M. R. Ginzburg has a certificate from the Milton Erickson Institute of Paris, the French Association of Hypnotherapy, and studied Ericksonian hypnosis at seminars by Jean Gaudin, Betty Ellis Erickson, Ernest Rossi, John Edgett, Norman Wooton, and Peter Hawkins. Participant and speaker at international congresses on hypnosis in Budapest (1996), Munich (2000) and Rome (2002). Practicing hypnotherapist.
M.R. Ginzburg actively promotes the spread of Ericksonian hypnosis as one of the most effective types of modern psychotherapy. He developed a training program on Ericksonian hypnosis - 8 years of teaching, more than 2,000 students. Conducted training seminars on Ericksonian hypnosis in Lausanne, Sofia, Riga, Moscow, Astana, Alma-Ata, Barnaul, Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Ufa.
Instructor of the I, II and III levels of Zhong Yuan Qigong. Personal student of the Chairman of the All-China Zhong-Yuan Qigong Association, master Xuyi Ming Tan (Beijing). Participant of international retreats on Zhong Yuan Qigong at the Shaolin Monastery in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Systematically conducts training seminars on Zhong-Yuan Qigong. Currently, M.R. Ginzburg is working on creating a unified psychotherapeutic model that combines Eastern and Western approaches. The main components of this model are Ericksonian hypnosis and Chinese qigong.
Speaks French, English and Polish.

Specialization:
Training in Ericksonian hypnosis at the Milton Erickson Institute in Paris (French Association of Hypnotherapy).
Participant and speaker at International Congresses on Hypnosis: in Budapest (1996), Munich (2000), Rome (2002).

Job:

Trainer at the Institute of Group and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy, Personnel Training Center "Class", leading researcher at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.

Professor of the Moscow Psychological and Social Institute. She has been teaching psychology at universities for the past 15 years.

For 2 years he taught psychology abroad (Laos).

Practicing hypnotherapist.

Instructor of Zhong Yuan Qigong. Participant of international Qigong retreats (seminars) in Shaolin (China) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.

Conducted training seminars on Ericksonian hypnosis in France (Paris), Switzerland (Lausanne), Bulgaria (Sofia), Latvia (Riga), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Astana), Russia (Moscow, Ufa, Barnaul, Vladivostok, Krasnodar). He has trained hundreds of highly qualified, actively practicing hypnotherapists.

Systematic course of Ericksonian hypnosis

Compact course on Ericksonian hypnosis

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M. R. Ginzburg, E. L. Yakovleva Ericksonian hypnosis: a systematic course. – M.: Moscow Psychological and Social Institute, 2008. – 312 p.

This book is based on a systematic course of Ericksonian hypnosis conducted by the authors over many years. It is addressed primarily to practitioners - psychologists, psychotherapists, consultants and all those who provide help and support to other people and want to make their techniques even more flexible and effective. Ericksonope hypnosis does not force you to give up anything; despite the fact that it represents an independent direction, it combines perfectly with all other techniques, complementing and strengthening them.

The book is not intended for independent study of Ericksonian hypnosis and does not replace the passage of a systematic cycle under the guidance of an experienced trainer; it allows you to better assimilate and consolidate the material. The book will be useful to all practicing psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as to all those who would like to form an adequate idea of ​​Ericksonian hypnosis.

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Part I. BASIC PRINCIPLES, CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES

Chapter 1. The nature of hypnosis

1.1. Prerequisites

This book is a practical guide. It is not our purpose to discuss the theoretical problems of hypnosis or the numerous experimental studies in the field of hypnosis. Therefore, in this chapter we will consider those prerequisites, the understanding of which is necessary for the practical use of hypnosis, and the range of concepts with which we will operate in the subsequent text, without claiming their scientific rigor. This course is a course of therapeutic hypnosis, that is, hypnosis as a means of providing assistance and psychological support. The book is addressed primarily to practitioners - those who help other people, advise, coach, teach. We hope that the techniques and approaches described in this book will help make this process more productive and more enjoyable for both the consultant and the client.

The work of a psychologist, consultant, psychotherapist is inherently paradoxical. When a person comes to a psychotherapist for help, he comes because he has difficulties in his life. These are objective difficulties - with a husband, with a wife, with a child, with money, with bosses, with studies, with housing, with work, etc. All these difficulties are in the outside world. But the therapist cannot influence the husband, wife, child, boss, and cannot provide the client with housing, work or a place of study.

These two people - the therapist and the client - have the only common subject for work - the client’s internal state (we use the term “state” here in a broad sense, including emotional states, attitudes, attitudes towards oneself and the world, etc. ). A psychologist is a professional working with internal states. He works with the internal state and tries to help bring about some change in it. And when this happens, a “miracle” happens: the problem resolves itself, as it were. By the way, a person does not always connect one with the other. “I went to a psychologist, spent time, spent money, but the problem resolved itself. Why I went is unknown.” The understanding that if I had not gone and spent, it would not have “dissolved” comes to some immediately, to some - belatedly, and to some it never comes at all.

How and by what means is it possible to change and regulate internal states? This needs to be understood, because this is the basis on which therapeutic hypnosis is based.

Ideodynamic mechanisms

There is a type of fortune telling - hang a ring (or other weight) on a thread and ask questions. If the pendulum starts to swing back and forth, the answer is yes. If it swings left and right, the answer is no.

Who answers the questions? Who swings the pendulum?

For a long time it was believed that this is really a magical pendulum and that we are dealing with spirits or higher powers - they are the ones who swing the pendulum.

In 1854, the French researcher Chevreuil published a paper entitled “On the Magic Wand, the Questioning Pendulum and Turning Tables,” in which he explained this phenomenon. Since then, the magic pendulum began to be called the Chevreuil pendulum. Chevreuil explained that it is based on the so-called ideomotor movements. “Idea”, image – in the head; motor skills, movement - in the hand. Thus, the image itself, automatically, in addition to consciousness, in addition to conscious control, is realized in movement. This is an ideomotor phenomenon. When asking questions to a pendulum, a person receives an answer not from otherworldly forces or spirits, but from his own unconscious, that is, he turns to his own unconscious experience.

Everyone can experiment with the ideomotor phenomenon. You need to take a thread with a weight, take it with two fingers, extend your hand, relax it (it’s better to do this with your eyes closed, but there is no need to keep them closed) and create a mental image - imagine how the weight swings in one of the directions: back and forth , or right-left, or clockwise, or counterclockwise... very quickly the weight will really start to swing.

Being in a warm room, you can imagine in your imagination that you are taking snow and making a snowball or plucking an icicle and holding it in your hand... your hand freezes... goes numb... loses sensitivity... a feeling of cold actually arises in your hand. And if you imagine that you put your hand in hot water, or hold on to a hot radiator, or lie in the hot sun, the blood vessels will dilate, and a feeling of warmth will appear. The experiment with lemon is well known: if you mentally imagine a ripe lemon... and with a sharp knife, cut off a slice from it... dripping with juice... and put it in your mouth... and chew... quite right, saliva comes out. An idea, an image, a representation is automatically, in addition to conscious control, realized in sensation. This - ideosensory phenomenon.

If you remember or simply imagine something bad that happened in life - resentment, disappointment, failure - your mood will deteriorate. A negative emotion will arise. If you remember or imagine something good - achievement, joy, success - your mood will improve and a positive emotion will appear. An idea, an image, a representation is automatically, in addition to the control of consciousness, realized in emotions. This - ideo-emotive (ideo-affective) phenomenon.

Depending on the images and ideas a person has, thoughts flow in one direction or another. This - ideocognitive phenomenon.

Question: Mikhail Romanovich, you are a leading specialist in Ericksonian hypnosis in Russia. Please tell us a little about this amazing method of psychotherapy.

GINZBURG MICHAIL ROMANOVICH: Each of us has a huge amount of resources. We are all capable of winning, achieving success, creating, creating. All this is inherent in us, but we cannot always use what we already have. From this point of view, when a person has a situation that he cannot solve, this means that there is no access to his internal resource or for some reason he cannot use it. Ericksonian hypnosis, named after Milton Erickson, a genius of our time, allows, using a special state called trance, to provide a person with access to his “internal computer” and to its resources. We all know that a person has what he is aware of at the level of consciousness, but there is also the unconscious. The unconscious is an internal computer with a huge number of useful programs. But in order to use the computer, you need to enter a password, as you know. So, trance is the password, the magic word “sim-sim”, which opens a cave with treasures. We are entering this state - and resources can be used. It is important to understand that trance is not a loss of consciousness or something imposed from the outside. With the help of trance, a person’s own (!) experience is used, his own capabilities, which previously seemed to be dormant.

Question: Sometimes it seems that people are afraid of this method. Why?

Mikhail Romanovich Ginzburg: People have a strange idea of ​​hypnosis, although it is clear where it comes from - from the yellow press, tabloid literature. The everyday idea of ​​hypnosis is this: I fell, I woke up, I’m in a cast, I don’t remember anything, I’m zombied. Therefore, when you conduct a hypnosis session with a person, and he does not switch off, then he is very surprised and says that this is not hypnosis at all. It is important to understand that even in the deepest hypnosis, consciousness does not turn off, a person hears and understands everything, control is maintained, and if you don’t want something, you don’t have to do it. The Ericksonian hypnosis method is based on cooperation with a person and the hypnotherapist cannot impose anything.

Question: What does such cooperation mean?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Firstly, the person himself must want (and not the therapist must want) to solve his problems. Everything should happen at the client’s own request. Secondly, reliance is placed on a person’s own capabilities. It is impossible to solve someone else's problem. You can only solve your own problem, but in some new way, using your capabilities, which simply did not manifest themselves until this moment.

Question: Why do people often fail to solve their own problems?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: We often try to solve problems with the help of the conscious mind, by analyzing. We were taught this at school, at college, we were taught this all our lives - to use only this instrument. But, in addition to consciousness, we, as I already said, also have the unconscious. And we don’t know how to use this tool very well. This is what we learn in our classes and psychotherapy sessions.

Question: Can a person learn this and then practice it on his own?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Of course, an obligatory element of Ericksonian psychotherapy is training in self-hypnosis. Everything that we do together can then be done independently. Some authors even argue that there is no such thing as hypnosis. There is only self-hypnosis. All the same, a person does everything himself, and a psychotherapist is only an instructor who has just walked this path a little earlier and understands how to do it competently in order to get the desired result.

Question: Is it possible that a person was put into a trance, but he did not come out?

Mikhail Romanovich Ginzburg: This is an immediate Nobel Prize. So far, such a case has not been recorded in the history of mankind. But I want to repeat once again that trance was not invented by hypnotists. This is a psychologically and physiologically normal state. There is a so-called "everyday trance". Every person is in a trance 40-50 times a day.

Question: How can you tell whether a person is in a trance or not?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: When we wake up, we go through a trance. When we fall asleep we go through a trance. When we read a book and catch ourselves running our eyes along the lines, but we no longer know what is written there, because... thoughts have flown far away - it's a trance. When we sit at a meeting and depict intense attention on our faces, and we ourselves think about what to plant in our garden plot - this is a trance. Everything that we do automatically, without thinking, we do in a trance. We wash the dishes, vacuum the floor... When your head is free, empty, and your hands and body are doing their usual thing. In addition, it is now known that our mental activity is not a straight line, but a sine wave. Every hour and a half we tend to go into a trance.

Question: So trance is liberation from thoughts?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: In general, yes. When you just want to sit and do nothing... This is the time when the collected information is put into place, when the internal healing powers of the body are activated. What does he do? modern man when does it get into this state? He kicks himself out of it...

Question: Why? Is this condition unpleasant?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: We need to work. What is it like to sit and do nothing? A cup of coffee, a cigarette and off you go. Therefore, there is a shortage of everyday trances. Then you have to go to a psychotherapist, and for your money he arranges for you what, in principle, should happen naturally, by itself.

Question: So trance is a state of complete peace?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Not only. There is also active trance. In a trance, you can relax and restore your strength, or you can act actively. You can react instantly and adequately only while in a trance. In fact, those who have been driving cars well for a long time do it in a trance. Martial artists fight in a combat trance. Active trance is practiced with athletes, because they need to act in this state and get results. This is a very productive state.

Question: What does it look like? Some kind of internal concentration, when thoughts are concentrated on performing some action?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: This is similar to what is happening to you now - concentration, fixation of attention on something. Only during an active trance is it fixed on something outside, and in a passive trance - on something inside: mental images, memories, experiences. If you need to rest, or need to solve some psychological problem, then passive trance is more suitable. If you need to perform a sporting feat, then active trance.

Question: Does a person learn to use active or passive trance depending on the needs of a given moment?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Yes, of course. If we are talking about an athlete who needs to improve his results, then the psychotherapist will teach him active trance. With an ordinary client who comes with his problems, we are talking about a passive client trance. A man sits, rests, as if doing nothing.

Question: Can a person learn to vary these trance states in everyday life?

Mikhail Romanovich: Maybe, but it’s better for someone to teach you, as in any business. Kostya Tszyu does not call it a trance, but judging by his interview, the state into which he puts himself before a fight is, of course, a trance. Preparing himself for battle, he also creates an image corresponding to himself: “When I’m in the ring, I’m a machine for destruction.”

Question: Can you come to a hypnotherapist in any life situation?

Mikhail Romanovich: Almost any. Moreover, when from this point of view you look at the biographies of people who have achieved something in life, in any field of activity, you see that they use it, they just call it differently for themselves. Some call it inspiration, others say “the muse has arrived,” that is, they describe the state of connecting internal resources.

Question: Is a hypnotherapist a person who helps connect them more effectively?

Mikhail Romanovich: Helps to connect and start using them depending on the tasks. You can do nothing in a trance state and just relax, or you can use this state productively, to achieve something, solve a problem or task.

Question: Is this long-term therapy?

Mikhail Romanovich: Ericksonian hypnosis refers to the so-called short-term therapies. In the West, short-term therapy is up to 20 sessions. Ours is around 10.

Question: Are there cases when such therapy is not indicated?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Psychoses. That is, you can work with psychotics, but this must be done by a psychiatrist who can use this as one of the methods. The basic rule of safety is that everyone must remain within the bounds of their profession. A doctor remains a doctor, a psychologist remains a psychologist.

Question: Besides unlocking your own resources, what else can Ericksonian hypnosis help with?

Mikhail Romanovich: In teaching effective communication. With the help of Ericksonian hypnosis, a person can reach a different level of interaction with people.

Question: It turns out that a person comes to solve his problem, for example, family drama, but there are some side positive aspects along with solving the main problem - for example, communication improves...

Mikhail Romanovich: It’s well known that when positive changes occur in one area, they affect others. If a person has learned this method, and if he uses it, he will very quickly discover that this can be used in all life situations.

Question: If a psychologist wants to master this method, how long does the training last?

Mikhail Romanovich: My training course is 6 cycles of 3 days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 to 18 - this is one cycle. This does not mean that people will learn everything about hypnosis. But they receive a certain base on which they can already apply practice.

Question: Please tell us about a typical case in which Ericksonian hypnosis was used?

Mikhail Romanovich Ginzburg: A very anxious young man approached me. When I asked him to rate his anxiety level on a scale of 100, where 100 is “the most a person can bear,” he rated his anxiety level at 90. He couldn't get a job because it requires communicating with people, and for him it was an extremely alarming situation. He even went out for walks at night so as not to meet or communicate with anyone. He and I performed a technique aimed at reducing anxiety and achieving inner peace; after the session, on the same scale, he indicated an anxiety level of 30 points. I explained to him how to perform this technique in self-hypnosis, a week later we met with him for the second time, but he did not come to the third meeting. He called and said: “Of course, I’m sorry, but I got a job, I don’t have time to come to you.” Q.E.D.

Question: Is there such a thing as a “good client”?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: This is a cooperating client. There is a concept of a “resistant client” who has come for something to change in him, but resists these changes.

Question: This is illogical.

Mikhail Romanovich Ginzburg: In your opinion, is man a logical being?

Question: Why does a person resist?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Because he wants the problem or situation to be resolved, but for this to happen some internal changes must occur. And all changes are fraught with surprises. That is, you will change, and no one knows what will happen.

Question: Are people afraid of change?

Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Yes. They seem to be saying to the therapist: “Help me change, but in such a way that nothing changes.” The side that calls for change is what we call “collaboration.” And the one that “so that nothing changes” we call “resistance.” At the same time, the person is not resisting me, not hypnosis, but the changes within himself. But, unfortunately, those who do not want to change doom themselves to problems. After all, life changes all the time, and in order to be adequate in this life all the time, we must also change all the time. Of course, we are not talking about changing an apartment, a wife, a job... We are talking about internal changes that allow us to adapt normally in a constantly changing world. And this is very important and, in fact, this is precisely what all psychotherapy is for.
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We provide access to resources by helping a person enter a trance. Trance is a “state of access.” The activity of the left hemisphere (consciousness) decreases slightly, the activity of the right hemisphere (unconscious) increases, and access to this magical Aladdin’s cave opens. You can go and take what you need.

Why is a person often unable to use a resource? Because people imagine their life like a submarine - divided into impenetrable compartments. This is good for a submarine; when one compartment floods, the others remain afloat. For ideas about human life - not very much. What does the fact that a person now needs to find a new good job have to do with the fact that he once learned to walk and talk? It seems that there is none - on a superficial level. But there is a deeper level where all the events of his life are interconnected because they have a common center. This center is his “I”, these are the events of his life. At a deeper level, there is something like an internal Internet network, and you can go into this network, take a resource in one place and take it to another. How to transfer? We turn to a part of ourselves - to our inner mind, to the unconscious - with a request to find the optimal ways to use this resource in relation to some specific events in our lives and to put it into action.

1.3. Basic principles

“When working with patients, your goal is to ensure their attention, to ensure their cooperation, and to make sure that they respond as well as they can.” Milton Erickson

Cooperation

Erickson's approach to hypnosis is based on collaboration: therapist and client are equal partners. They are not trying to impose anything on a person, and certainly not trying to “subordinate him to their will” (one of the common ideas about hypnosis). The main task is to help him take full advantage of his own capabilities and resources to achieve his own goals. Erickson put it this way: “The goal of psychotherapy is to help the patient to live as effectively as possible in accordance with his own ideas.”

For most people, the word “hypnosis” evokes very specific ideas: possessing certain mystical qualities (“hypnotic” abilities, strong will, “magnetic” gaze, etc.), the hypnotist uses mysterious techniques to plunge a person into a deep sleep, in which he unconditionally performs any his orders. We often hear people proudly say, “I can’t be hypnotized.” Behind such words lies the idea of ​​hypnosis as a struggle in which the one with the stronger will wins. Next to the word “hypnosis” the formidable word “zombie” often appears. This terrible picture has nothing in common with real hypnosis.

In traditional, classical hypnosis - the kind that came to us from the 19th century, when hypnosis was identified with sleep, the hypnotist really strives to put a person into a “hypnotic sleep” and gives him direct suggestions and commands. However, these commands are not necessarily executed; It has long been shown that in any, even the deepest, hypnosis it is impossible to force a person to do something that he does not want to do, which contradicts his moral principles and beliefs. Modern hypnosis is so different from this traditional procedure that, having seen a session of modern hypnosis, many would probably say: “Yes, this is not hypnosis at all.”

It must be well understood that hypnosis does not give power over another person. It's an illusion. The illusion of power is skillfully created by the hypnotist. Let's look at an example. The stage hypnotist does not show the “miracles of hypnosis” on everyone. First, he selects people through certain tests. In fact, he looks at how ideomotor skills work and selects people with good ideomotor skills. There are several classic samples.

For example, an ideomotor test can be carried out like this: “Stretch your arms out in front of you, palms up. Imagine that there is a weight weighing five kilograms on your right hand. If you create good image, you will be able to feel that under the weight of this imaginary load your hand begins to sink.” Then you can ask to increase the imaginary weight: “Now imagine that the weight has increased, that you have added another five kilograms. And the hand goes down even faster.” It is absolutely clear that you do this yourself, these are your own ideomotor processes.

What does a stage hypnotist do? The beginning is almost the same: “Stretch your arms out in front of you, palms up. Imagine that there is a weight weighing five kilograms on your right hand. Under the weight of this load, your hand sinks.” But the continuation is radically different: “I add another five kilograms! And under the weight of this load, your hand falls, falls, falls!”

It's clear? This is what he puts in. And when the hand drops - as a result of his own ideomotor processes - the person believes that this is the result of the “influence” of the hypnotist. After all, it was he who “put down the weight.” Witch!

A piece of power passed from the man to the hypnotist - but only because he himself gave it away. Then, with the help of the next hypnotic phenomenon, another piece of power is taken away, then another... the hypnotist has over the person only the power that he himself gave him.

One of the main tasks of the Ericksonian hypnotherapist is to train a person so that he can then do what they do together, to teach him self-hypnosis. Therefore, Ericksonian hypnosis is always cooperation, voluntary interaction between two people. The “hypnotherapist,” or “operator,” has a specific set of techniques that allow a person to enter a trance state and use it for their own purposes. He teaches these techniques to his “client” (or perhaps it would be more correct to say “partner”). The “client” is in complete control of the situation; here there can be no talk of orders, of thoughtless obedience to them. Trance is not sleep or loss of consciousness, trance is “immersion into oneself”: into one’s thoughts, memories, sensations, experiences. At the same time, the person does not for a minute cease to be aware of where he is and what is happening to him, and at any moment he can interrupt the session if he does not like something.

A special art that a person learns during Ericksonian hypnosis sessions is the art of “detachment.” Throughout his life, a person learns to master his conscious mechanisms; we know that when we want to achieve something, we need to tense up, concentrate, gather our will into a fist... However, this does not work with unconscious mechanisms - they are structured differently. They cannot be “forced” to work: the more we strain and “gather our will into a fist,” the less we will succeed. In order for unconscious mechanisms to work, you need to “release the brakes”, “step back” - and let them work. This is the main art that a person masters during sessions of Ericksonian hypnosis, and then uses in self-hypnosis. The main character in Rickson hypnosis is the client; he performs a certain internal work, and the therapist “accompanies” him, creating optimal conditions for this work. One of the axioms of psychotherapy says: “A person brings with him not only a problem, but also its solution - only he does not know about it yet.” Ericksonian hypnosis is one of the fastest and effective ways let the person know about this decision.

Ericksonian hypnosis is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used depending on the needs of the person using it. For some, it is enough that the problem with which he addressed has been resolved. Many people, having become familiar with Ericksonian hypnosis, use it later as self-hypnosis even after the problem has been resolved: in order to quickly restore strength, put themselves in a good mood, and get rid of unpleasant experiences. Someone goes even further and, thanks to systematic training, gains control over pain, learns to change the passage of time and masters other hypnotic phenomena that allow a person to use his hidden abilities, many of which he was not aware of. Ericksonian hypnosis is about self-knowledge, learning how to become more successful and effective.

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Education:

Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University

Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, Ph.D., Gr.Ph.D., Full Professor

Specialization:

Training in Ericksonian hypnosis at the Milton Erickson Institute in Paris (French Association of Hypnotherapy).
Participant and speaker at International Congresses on Hypnosis: in Budapest (1996), Munich (2000), Rome (2002, 2009), Acapulco (2006), Nantes (2009), Phoenix (2011), Bremen (2012), St. Petersburg ( 2013).

Job:

• Trainer at the Institute of Group and Family Psychology and Psychotherapy, leading researcher at the Psychological Institute of the Russian Academy of Education.
• Professor of the Moscow Psychological and Social Institute. She has been teaching psychology at universities for the past 15 years.
• For 2 years he taught psychology abroad (Laos).
• Author of the training program on Ericksonian hypnosis - 12 years of teaching, more than 2000 students.
• Practicing hypnotherapist.
• Instructor of Zhong Yuan Qigong. Participant of international Qigong retreats (seminars) in Shaolin (China) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005.
• Conducted training seminars on Ericksonian hypnosis in France (Paris), Switzerland (Lausanne), Bulgaria (Sofia), Latvia (Riga), Kazakhstan (Almaty, Astana), Ukraine (Kiev), Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul , Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Samara, Ufa). He has trained hundreds of highly qualified, actively practicing hypnotherapists.

Other types of professional activities:

• Video recordings of Mikhail Ginzburg’s seminars on the systematic course of Ericksonian hypnosis:
  "Basic techniques of Ericksonian hypnosis"
  "Techniques for catalepsy and levitation of the hand"
  "Indirect suggestions in Ericksonian hypnosis"
  "Metaphor in Ericksonian hypnosis"
  "Hypnotic modification of perceptual and cognitive processes"
  "Hypnoanalysis"
  "Age regression and time progression"
• Author of video courses in the “Psychotechnologies in Business” series: “Stress Management” and “I Came, I Saw, I Convinced...”
• Author of more than 70 works on psychology and the book “The Path to Yourself” (M., 1991).
• Translator, editor and author of prefaces to a number of books on Ericksonian hypnosis in the “Libraries of Psychology and Psychotherapy” series of the Klass publishing house.

Mikhail Romanovich Ginzburg believes that Ericksonian hypnosis is a fun activity, so humor is an invariable attribute of the classes he conducts.
He combines systematic and consistent teaching with friendly attention to each group member. Each participant has the feeling that everything that happens is addressed to him personally.
During his classes, originality, interest, synthesis of Eastern and Western psychotechnologies, and attention to each participant are invariably demonstrated. All this together provides guaranteed learning of the material. People who once come to Ginzburg’s training become so interested that they complete the entire training course.

– Why is Ginzburg dangerous?
- Nothing. Just all the time
I have to increase the dose...

(a joke from one of the participants
long program)

Clients about the trainer:

BASF Company

Media Service Video International

Participant of the open training “Stress management”

Participant of the open training “Stress management”