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For those not in the know, Ericksonian hypnosis is one of the parents of NLP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_model). Namely, all modern "trainings" are based on the basis of NLP. personal growth and self-development".

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If it’s easier for someone to watch the video, there is a course on the torrent. But there is poor quality of sound recording, parts of the recording are simply cut out - in principle, it is clear that for 10 or how many days of classes there no one will record, upload, or, most importantly, will not watch.

The book is amazingly easy to read.

UPD: In general, after reading, I came to the conclusion that Ericksonian hypnosis is the best that psychology has to offer. There is absolutely everything. The problem, as usual, is one - to find a good specialist.

RUSSIAN Academy of Education. Moscow Psychological and Social Institute
M. R. Ginzburg, E. L. Yakovleva

ERIKSON HYPNOSIS:
SYSTEMATIC COURSE

This book is based on a systematic course in Ericksonian hypnosis conducted by the authors over the 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. Ericksonian hypnosis doesn't make you give up anything; despite the fact that it is an independent direction, it goes well with all other techniques, complementing and strengthening them.

The book is not intended for self-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 learn and consolidate his material. The book will be useful to all practicing psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as to all those who would like to get an adequate idea of ​​Ericksonian hypnosis.

Part I. Basic principles, concepts and techniques
Chapter 1 The Nature of Hypnosis
1.1. Prerequisites
1.2. Basic concepts
1.3. Basic principles
1.4. About Milton Erickson
1.5. Microdynamics of trance

Chapter 2 Basic Techniques
2.1. Indefinite words
2.2. Accompanying in a pleasant memory
2.3. Ratification of the minimum signs of trance
2.4. Dissociation
2.5. Relativization
2.6. Finger ideomotor signaling
2.7. Harmonization with the client
2.8. Features of the use of language in hypnosis
2.9. self hypnosis

Chapter 3
3.1. Nature of hover
3.2. Guidance fixing attention
3.3. escort guidance
3.4. Score Guidance
3.5. Relaxation guidance
3.6. Ideomotor guidance
3.7. Demystifying induction
3.8. imitation trance
3.9. naturalistic guidance
3.10. deepening trance
3.11. Getting out of a trance
3.12. Trans Therapist

Chapter 4
4.1. The Nature of Suggestions
4.2. Direct Suggestions
Explicit direct suggestion
Direct camouflaged suggestion
Post-hypnotic suggestion
4.3. indirect suggestions
Acceptance sequence
implication
Implied indication
Question
Negative paradoxical suggestion
double bind
Contextual suggestion
Compound suggestion
Truism (banality)
Suggestion by lack of mention
Suggestion related to time
allusion (hint)
Inverted Suggestion
Non-verbal suggestion
4.4. open suggestions
Mobilizing Suggestion
Limited open suggestion
A suggestion covering all the possibilities of the class

Chapter 5. Metaphor
5.1. The nature of metaphor
5.2. Sources of metaphors
5.3. Construction of metaphors
5.4. Metaphorical accompaniment of the process
5.5. Thematic metaphors
5.6. metaphorical tale
5.7. Early learning metaphor
5.8. Metaphor of change

Part II. Hypnotic Phenomena and Their Therapeutic Uses

Chapter 6
6.1. Hand catalepsy. Execution technique
6.2. Therapeutic use of hand catalepsy
6.3. Hand levitation. Execution technique
6.4. Therapeutic use of hand levitation
6.5. Subjective time distortion

Chapter 7
7.1. The nature of confusion
7.2. Pattern Breaking Techniques
Deliberate semantic absurdities
Syntax violations
Inhibition of motor manifestations
Interrupt access keys
Paradoxes
Handshake guidance
7.3. Overload Techniques
Repetition
sensory overload
Disorientation in time
Disorientation in space
Practical use of external coordinate shift
Antonyms
Technique for working with resistance
double pointing
7.4. Other Possibilities for Creating Confusion
The transfer of qualities from one object to another
Contradictory instruction
synesthesia

Chapter 8
8.1. The role and place of amnesia in Ericksonian hypnosis
8.2. direct suggestion
8.3. Figure-background
8.4. Motivation for forgetting
8.5. Difficulty in remembering
8.6. indirect suggestions
8.7. Switching attention
8.8. Using images
8.9. Dissociation
8.10. Confusion
8.11. Structured amnesia
8.12. Embedded metaphor

Chapter 10
10.1. Age regression continuum
10.2. Strategies for Using Age Regression
10.3. Techniques for creating age regression
10.4. Bilevel dissociated age regression
10.5. Hall of Fame
10.6. time progression
10.7. Strategies for Using Temporal Progression
10.8. Age Progression Techniques

Chapter 11
11.1. State-related memory, learning and behavior
11.2. Basic Access Question
11.3. Three-step therapeutic strategies

Application. Using Oriental Techniques in Ericksonian Hypnosis
Buddhist Peace Meditation
"Big Tree" of Chinese Qigong

Part I
BASIC PRINCIPLES, CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES

Chapter 1
The nature of hypnosis

This book is a practical guide. We do not aim 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 circle of concepts that we will operate in the text below, without claiming their scientific rigor.

This course is a course in therapeutic hypnosis, that is, hypnosis as a means of providing assistance and psychological support. The book is addressed primarily to practitioners - those who provide assistance to other people, advise, train, teach. We hope that the techniques and approaches described in this book will help make this process more productive and more enjoyable for both counselor and client.

The work of a psychologist, a consultant, a 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, 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 internal state of the client (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 is resolved as if by itself. By the way, a person does not always associate one with the other. “I went to a psychologist, wasted time, spent money, and the problem resolved itself. Why he went is unknown. The understanding that if I didn’t go and spend it, it wouldn’t “dissolve”, it comes to some immediately, to some it comes late, and to some it never comes at all.

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

Ideodynamic mechanisms

There is such 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 sways 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 with higher powers - they are swinging the pendulum.

In 1854, the French researcher Chevreuil published a work entitled “On the Magic Wand, the Inquiring Pendulum and the Turning Tables”, in which he explained this phenomenon. Since then, the magic pendulum has been called the Chevreuil pendulum.

Chevreuil explained that the so-called ideomotor movements. "Idea", image - in the head; motility, movement - in the hand. Thus, the image itself, automatically, in addition to consciousness, in addition to conscious control, is realized in motion. This - ideomotor phenomenon. Turning questions to the pendulum, a person receives an answer not from otherworldly forces and not from 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, stretch out your hand, relax it (it is 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 is swinging in one of the directions: forward-backward , or right-left, or clockwise, or counter-clockwise ... very quickly, the weight will really start to sway.

Being in a warm room, you can imagine in your imagination that you take snow and make a snowball or pick an icicle and hold it in your hand ... your hand freezes ... goes numb ... loses sensitivity ... a feeling of cold really arises in your hand. And if you imagine that you put your hand in hot water, or hold on to a hot battery, or lie in the hot sun - the blood vessels will expand, a feeling of warmth will appear.

There is a well-known experiment with a lemon: if you mentally imagine a ripe lemon... and cut off a slice from it with a sharp knife... leaking juice... and put it in your mouth... and chew it... that's right, saliva is released. Idea, image, representation automatically, in addition to conscious control, are realized in sensation. This - ideosensory phenomenon.

If you remember or just imagine something bad that happened in life - resentment, disappointment, failure - the mood will deteriorate. There will be a negative emotion. If you remember or imagine something good - achievement, joy, success - your mood will rise, a positive emotion will appear. The idea, image, representation automatically, in addition to the control of consciousness, are realized in emotions. This - ideo-emotive (ideo-affective) phenomenon.

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

So, the images and ideas that arise in a person automatically, without the participation of consciousness, are realized in movement, sensation, emotions and thoughts. Together, ideomotor, ideosensory, ideo-emotive, ideocognitive phenomena are called ideodynamic phenomena, or, even shorter, ideodynamics, that is, the dynamics of self-realization of representation, image.

This is the premise, the basis of hypnosis.

The fact is that all people have a part of their mental life that is not realized - what is called "unconscious". Consciousness and the unconscious have different languages. The language of consciousness is logic, reasoning, rationality. The language of the unconscious is images, symbols. It tries to speak to us in this language at night: we dream. These dreams mean something, they are a message from our inner mind, from our unconscious, they contain something important to us. And we try to solve them - sometimes more, sometimes less successfully.

We also talk to the unconscious in its language. Those images, pictures, ideas that arise in our heads largely determine our entire life. It can be imagined as if a person has an autopilot or a powerful computer inside. The images that arise are the course for the autopilot, the program for the internal computer. If a person thinks all the time about how poor, unhappy and sick he is, the autopilot seems to look: “What is the owner asking for? Poverty, misfortune, illness. Course south-south-west. Go". And it will lead - unmistakably. If you imagine happiness, success, good luck, the course will be different. And the result will be different. (I understand that this is just the original source, and not the tenth copy, but the idea really fucked up. I am glad that the author does not write about health so self-confidently - H.B.)

So, the image is the basis for the regulation of internal states. A person "programs" himself through the images that he creates. (Not true. 1) Those who want to program are a lot, and not always, due to age or other reasons, a person is able to resist them 2) In addition to images, there is a physical reality - H.B.)

The psychological mechanism of such “self-programming” is ideodynamic mechanisms: the image strives for self-realization in action, sensation, emotion and thought. Really, in life, this manifests itself through seeming accidents.
- Somewhere you accidentally turn right, not left,
- meet by chance right person,
- you accidentally get to an important seminar,
- accidentally read the right book ... (But this is very interesting. As a rule, all skeptics (I sometimes do it myself) always say exactly this phrase "This is an accident" and "This is self-hypnosis."

It is also interesting the behavior of people who purposefully go in search of "accidents" - they enter some educational institutions not for the sake of knowledge, but for the sake of the "environment".

In addition, there is a very recent story: http://transurfer.livejournal.com/229626.html. Briefly: a person has a classic OCS (OCD) on the basis of handles for 20 years. And then she found it. ACCIDENTALLY. “I went into the store without even thinking about pens, and in general it was a store for travelers (bags, umbrellas, suitcases). By the way, I wrote this and realized: it happened when I started going to therapy. I was walking along the same street where the store was. The store itself suddenly opened there, and then, a couple of years ago, it also suddenly disappeared. "

So I have a question: HOW could the subconscious know that these pens are being sold there? — H. B.)

Usually a person does not realize, does not understand that he himself programs, determines his life through the images that he creates. Is it possible to do this purposefully - to use ideodynamic mechanisms to improve the quality of one's life - and what is needed for this?

An important condition for the good operation of ideodynamic mechanisms is relaxation. When you hold a thread with a weight in your hand, you need to relax your hand - then the movements of the weight are more clearly visible.

There is one more condition that helps to optimize the work of ideodynamic mechanisms. It is generally accepted that the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for the work of consciousness, and the right hemisphere is responsible for the work of the unconscious. Of course, the human brain is much more complex, but in any case, it is known that the left hemisphere is responsible for consistent, logical, rational processes, while the right hemisphere is more holistic, synthetic, creative. When the activity of the left hemisphere decreases somewhat, and the activity of the right hemisphere increases, we get intermediate state, which can be called an altered state of consciousness, but can also be called a trance state - a trance, or a hypnotic state. Consciousness does not “switch off”; both work - both the conscious and the unconscious.

This state is interesting in that the work of ideodynamic mechanisms is greatly enhanced in it. That is why we do hypnosis. There is nothing magical or mystical about hypnosis. Everything that can be done in hypnosis can be done without hypnosis. But in hypnosis it turns out more powerful and faster. This - transformer, it enhances the impact of ideodynamic mechanisms.

Or you can put it another way: hypnosis allows you to increase the effect of the spirit on the body. Or: enhances the work of unconscious mechanisms. It's the same thing, just said a little differently.

Definition of hypnosis

There are many definitions of hypnosis. We will give the definition of Jean Gaudin, our first teacher. Jean Gaudin defines hypnosis as follows.

Hypnosis- this is such a special type of mental functioning in which a person, due to the influence of another person, forgets about the outside world, while maintaining a connection with the operator, and which allows for mental restructuring.

There are two points to note in this definition.

The first is the term "operator". In Ericksonian hypnosis, they do not like to use the word "hypnotist", as it causes many undesirable associations. But the word "operator" in Russian has certain associations: "operator of a nuclear power plant", for example. That's why we usually say "hypnotherapist" or just "therapist".

The second is mental restructuring.

In hypnosis, critical control is temporarily reduced and, what is very important, the limitations of consciousness are temporarily removed. Consciousness is logical, it has limitations. A person has a certain idea of ​​himself, he knows: "To here - I can, from here - I can not."

In hypnosis there are no such restrictions; here is possible what seems impossible and illogical to consciousness. It is like opening a bracket in your mental functioning, and positive changes can take place within that bracket. And then the bracket is closed (the person comes out of the trance), and the changes are saved and continue to act. At the same time, they act as if by themselves, and this is very convenient and practical.

Differences between traditional and Ericksonian hypnosis(1 after Ch. Jousselin. Modified.)

It would be more correct to speak not about two hypnosis, but about two approaches to hypnosis, which differ significantly from each other.

Traditional hypnosis is characterized by an authoritarian approach. Erickson's approach to hypnosis is permissive, that is, permissive (permission - permission).
In traditional hypnosis, the hypnotist tries his best to create the image of a domineering, authoritarian figure with the famous "hypnotic gaze". In Ericksonian hypnosis, relations of equality, partnership, and cooperation are emphasized in every possible way. The client in a session of Ericksonian hypnosis is provided with maximum freedom - he is "allowed" almost everything.

Traditional hypnosis uses direct suggestions. In the Ericksonian - for the most part indirect.

In traditional hypnosis, it is believed that hypnosis is a special state into which one “plunges” under the influence of a hypnotist. In Ericksonian it is believed that this is a special type of mental functioning, which is entered into in a dialogue. The excellent French master Jacques Kelet expressed it metaphorically as follows: in traditional hypnosis, a person is "under hypnosis", in Erickson's - "in hypnosis".

In traditional hypnosis, trance induction is believed to be the key to entering another state; this key is in the hands of the hypnotist. In the Ericksonian, it is believed that a person accepts a certain attitude and all his behavior follows from this attitude.

In traditional hypnosis, submission is cultivated. The traditional hypnotist will say, "You only hear my voice." Release is cultivated in Ericksonian hypnosis. An Ericksonian hypnotherapist will say, "You don't need to listen to what I'm saying."

In traditional hypnosis, they try to put something into a person's head - suggestions. In Ericksonian hypnosis, they try to extract something from this head - resources.

And the last. In traditional hypnosis, the hypnotist thinks he has power, that is, he himself has such an attitude that he seeks to convey to the client. In Ericksonian hypnosis, we seek to create the attitude "I will help you gain power over yourself."

Installation

In discussing the differences between traditional and Ericksonian hypnosis, the concept of "attitude" has been used twice.

An attitude is a person's internal attitude towards something. Installation is very important. We can say that hypnosis is a game played by two or more people. This game unfolds according to certain rules, and the rules are set by the settings. Let's look at a few examples of how the setup works.

The shaman of a primitive tribe is sure that he has power over the souls of his fellow tribesmen, that is, he has such an attitude. But the tribesmen also believe that he has power over their souls, that is, they also have the appropriate attitude. At the meeting of these two attitudes, everything happens: the shaman inspires his fellow tribesman that he is an otter, and the man dives into the lake and returns with a fish in his mouth.

In the 17th century, a famous doctor, Ambroise Pare, lived in France. He was a great doctor and a great diagnostician. It was known that if Ambroise Pare diagnosed a person, he would cure him. And in a Parisian hospital, a young man was dying. He was dying of an unknown disease, no one could diagnose him. His attending physicians told him: “You only have one chance. Very small, but there. Tomorrow the great Ambroise Pare will be visiting us in the hospital. If you live, if he examines you and if he diagnoses you, then you are saved.” The young man gathers his will into a fist, lives until dawn, until the round - and here is the solemn moment: the great Ambroise Pare with his retinue enters the ward. Ambroise Pare carefully examines the patient and pronounces his diagnosis. Here it must be said that the language of educated people - including doctors - was Latin, and the simple French people did not understand it. So, Ambroise Pare examines the patient and utters only one word: "muribondus" - "at death." The whole procession leaves the ward, and, starting from that moment, the young man sharply recovers and recovers - because the great Ambroise Paré diagnosed him. The installation worked (2 According to P. Vaplavik).

So, the "rules of the game" are determined by the attitudes of its participants. Therefore, it is very important what attitudes the therapist creates in his clients, that is, how he explains to them what hypnosis is. The therapist himself needs to form an attitude towards cooperation and support.

Trance

Some authors distinguish between trance and hypnosis: trance is seen as a state, and hypnosis as a process that helps to enter this state. One can adhere to this distinction; it does not affect practical work in any way. We will use the terms "trance" and "hypnosis" interchangeably.

How is trance different from the so-called ordinary state of consciousness? It differs in where attention is directed. Trance is an internal focus of attention. Attention is like a spotlight.

Outward-directed attention to the outer world is what is commonly called the ordinary state of consciousness. If this beam is turned and directed inward, then we will get a state that we call "trance". What's inside? For anything: for images, memories, sensations, dreams, fantasies - it doesn't matter.

“Inducing a trance” means helping a person turn his attention inward. Therefore, the simplest trance induction is to offer something to remember or imagine. In order to remember something or imagine something, a person plunges into himself and to some extent stops paying attention to his surroundings.

So trance is attention turned inward. And in order to turn attention inward, it must first be fixed on something. It doesn't matter what, whatever.

The traditional hypnotist fixes attention on some object. He may suggest looking at a "magic" crystal. On a dot on the carpet, on your finger, in your eyes. Until now, there is an idea that the hypnotist must have some special "magnetic" look. In fact, the features of the gaze of the hypnotist have nothing to do with the trance of the subject. In fact, the subject puts himself into a trance; The therapist only tells him how to do it correctly. The therapist acts as an "instructor".

Attention can be fixed in any modality, more on that later.

Forward:
Content:

This book is based on a systematic course in Ericksonian hypnosis conducted by the authors over the 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.

Ericksonian hypnosis doesn't make you give up anything; despite the fact that it is an independent direction, it goes well with all other techniques, complementing and strengthening them. The book is not intended for self-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 learn and consolidate his material.

The book will be useful to all practicing psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as to all those who would like to get an adequate idea of ​​Ericksonian hypnosis.

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Education:

Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University

Doctor of Psychology, 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 of Paris (French Hypnotherapy Association).
Participant and speaker of 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 the university 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.
• Zhong Yuan Qigong Instructor. Participant of international retreats (seminars) on qigong, 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 and actively practicing hypnotherapists.

Other professional activities:

• Video recordings of Mikhail Ginzburg's seminars on systematic course Ericksonian hypnosis:
  "Basic Techniques of Ericksonian Hypnosis"
  "Techniques of catalepsy and levitation of the hand"
  "Indirect Suggestions in Ericksonian Hypnosis"
  "Metaphor in Ericksonian Hypnosis"
  "Hypnotic alteration of perceptual and cognitive processes"
  "Hypnoanalysis"
  "Age Regression and Temporal Progression"
• Author of the video courses of the series "Psychotechnologies in business": "Stress management" and "I came, I saw, I convinced ..."
• Author of more than 70 works on psychology and the book "The Way 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 his classes.
He combines systematic and consistent teaching with friendly attention to each member of the group. Each participant gets the feeling that everything that happens is addressed to him personally.
In the course of his classes, originality, interest, synthesis of Eastern and Western psychotechnologies, attention to each participant are invariably manifested. All this together gives a guaranteed assimilation of the material. People who once came to Ginzburg's training acquire such interest that they complete the entire course of study.

- Why is Ginzburg dangerous?
- Yes, nothing. Just all the time
I have to increase the dose...

(a joke from one of the participants
long program)

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Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich - Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences, Leading Researcher and Member of the Academic Council of the Moscow Psychological and Social Institute, Member of the Doctoral Council of the World University for the Development of Science, Education and Society.

Psychological Navigator: Mikhail Romanovich, you are the leading expert on Ericksonian hypnosis in Russia. Please tell us a little about this amazing method of psychotherapy.
Ginzburg Mikhail 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 can not 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 - the genius of our time, allows using a special state called trance to provide a person with access to his "internal computer", to his resources.

We all know that a person has something that he is aware of at the level of consciousness, but there is also an unconscious. The unconscious is an internal computer with a huge number of useful programs. But in order to use the computer, you must, as you know, enter a password. So, trance is the password, the magic word "sim-sim", which opens the treasure cave. We enter this state - and resources can be used.
It is important to understand that trance is not a loss of consciousness and not something imposed from the outside. With the help of trance, a person's own (!) experience is used, his own possibilities, which seemed to be dormant earlier.

PN: Sometimes it seems that people are afraid of this method. Why?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: 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, woke up, gypsum, I don’t remember anything, they zombified.
Therefore, when you conduct a hypnosis session with a person, and he does not turn 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 is not turned off, a person hears everything, understands, control is maintained, and if you don’t want something, then you can not do it.
The method of Ericksonian hypnosis is built on cooperation with a person and the hypnotherapist cannot impose anything.

PN: What does such cooperation mean?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: First, the person must want (and not the therapist must want) to solve their problems. Everything should happen according to the client's own wishes.
Secondly, the reliance goes on a person's own capabilities. Another problem cannot be solved. You can only solve your own problem, but in some new way for yourself, using your capabilities, which simply have not manifested up to this point.

PN: Why do people often fail to solve their own problems?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: We often try to solve problems with the conscious mind by analyzing. We were taught this at school, at the institute, we were taught this all our lives - to use only this tool. But, in addition to consciousness, we, as I said, also have an unconscious. And we are not very good at using this tool. This is what we learn in our classes and psychotherapy sessions.

PN: Can a person learn this and then practice it on their own?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Of course, an obligatory element of Ericksonian psychotherapy is training in self-hypnosis. Everything that we do together, a person can then do on his own. Some authors even argue that there is no such thing as hypnosis. There is only self-hypnosis. Anyway, a person does everything himself, and a psychotherapist is only an instructor who just went down this path a little earlier and understands how to do it competently in order to get the desired result.

PN: Can it be that a person was plunged into a trance, but he did not come out of there?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: This is immediately a 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". Each person is in a trance 40-50 times a day.

PN: And how to understand 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 through the lines with our eyes, but we no longer know what is written there, because thoughts have flown away - this is a trance. When we sit at a meeting and portray intense attention on our faces, while we ourselves think about what to plant on a personal plot is a trance. Everything that we do automatically, without thinking, we do in a trance. I wash the dishes, vacuum the floor ... When the head is free, empty, and the hands and body do their usual work.
In addition, it is now known that our mental activity is not a straight line, but a sinusoid. We tend to go into a trance every hour and a half.

PN: So trance is liberation from thoughts?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: In general, yes. When you just want to sit, do nothing... This is the time when the collected information is put on the shelves, when the internal healing forces of the body turn on.
And what does a modern person do when he gets into this state? He kicks himself out of it...

PN: Why? Is this condition unpleasant?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Need to work. How is it to sit and do nothing? A cup of coffee, a cigarette and 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.

PN: So trance is a state of complete rest?
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 drive a car for a long time and well 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.

PN: What does it look like? Some kind of inner concentration, when thoughts are concentrated on the performance of some action?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: It is similar to what is happening to you now - concentration, fixing attention on something. Only in 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 relax, or you need to solve some kind of psychological problem, then a passive trance is more suitable. If you need to accomplish a sporting feat - then an active trance.

PN: Does a person learn to use active or passive trance depending on the needs of the moment?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Yes, sure. If we are talking about an athlete who needs to improve his performance, then the therapist will teach him an active trance. With an ordinary client who comes with his own problems, we are talking about a passive client trance. A person sits, rests, as if doing nothing.

PN: Can a person learn to vary these trance states in everyday life?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich A: Maybe, but it's better to have someone teach you, as in any business. Kostya Tszyu does not call it a trance, but judging by his interview, the state into which he introduces himself before the fight is, of course, a trance. Preparing himself for a fight, he also creates an image corresponding to himself: “When I am in the ring, I am a machine for destruction.”

PN: Can one come to a hypnotherapist in any life situation?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Practically in any. Moreover, when you look at the biographies of people who have achieved something in life, in any field of activity, from this point of view, you see that they use it, they just call it differently for themselves. Someone calls it inspiration, someone says “the muse has come”, that is, they describe the state of connecting internal resources.

PN: Is a hypnotherapist a person who helps to connect them more effectively?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Helps to connect and start using them, depending on the tasks. You can do nothing in a state of trance and just relax, or you can use this state productively to achieve something, solve a problem or task.

PN: Is this a long-term therapy?
Ginzburg 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.

PN: Are there cases when such therapy is not indicated?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Psychoses. That is, you can work with psychotics, but this should 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.

PN: In addition to revealing one's own resources, what else can Ericksonian hypnosis help with?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: In teaching effective communication. With the help of Ericksonian hypnosis, a person can reach a different level of interaction with people.

PN: It turns out that a person comes to solve his own problem, for example, a family drama, but there are some side positive aspects along with the solution of the main problem - for example, communication improves ...
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: So it is 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 it can be used in all life situations.

PN: If a psychologist wants to master this method, how long does the training take?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich A: My training course is 6 cycles of 3 days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 10 to 18 is one cycle. This does not mean that people will learn everything about hypnosis. But they get a certain base on which practice can already be applied.

PN: Please, tell us about some typical case when Ericksonian hypnosis was used?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: I was approached by a very anxious young man. When I asked him to rate his anxiety level on a scale of 100, where 100 is “the most intense thing a person can bear,” he rated his anxiety level at 90. He couldn't get a job because it requires dealing with people, and for him it was an extremely disturbing situation. He even went out for a walk 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 for the second time, but he did not come to the third meeting. I called and said: “You, of course, excuse me, but I got a job, I have no time to go to you.” Q.E.D.

PN: Is there a concept of a “good client”?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: This is a collaborating client. There is the concept of a “resisting client”, who came to change something in him, but resists these changes.

PN: This is illogical.
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Do you think that man is a logical being?

PN: Why does the person resist?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Because he wants the problem or situation to be resolved, but for this some internal changes must occur. And any changes are fraught with surprises. That is, you will change, and it is not known what will happen.

PN: Are people afraid of change?
Ginzburg Mikhail Romanovich: Yes. They seem to say 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, a person does not resist me, not hypnosis, but changes within himself. But, unfortunately, those who do not want to change doom themselves to problems. After all, life is changing 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, it is for this that any psychotherapy is needed.