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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Lectures Seminars Texts in Spanish Texts in English PUBLISHED PAPERS Unconscious Mentation and Hypnotherapy by: D.H. Clayton Ph.d Abstract: 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. Download Treating Psychosomatic Disorders: Negotiating with the Unconscious in Trance by: D.H. Clayton Ph.d Abstract: 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. Descargar LECTURES Criteria for Selecting a Trance Subject Transcribed from “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson” Zieg and Geary, 2000. Read Misconceptions of hypnosis Gathered and taken in large part from the lectures on tape of Milton H. Erickson M.D. Read Time Distortion in Hypnosis Cited from Cooper, Lynn and Erickson, Milton. “Time Distortion in Hypnosis”, 1982 Second Edition. Read The Brain as a Functioning Organ Taken from audio tapes of Erickson’s lectures and workshops Read Deep Trance Summary of lectures on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Read Milton Erickson and Clark Hull Notes taken from “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, Zeig and Geary, 2000 Read Pain and Hypnosis Summary of lectures on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Read Relaxation and induction Taken in large part from lectures on tape given by Milton H. Erickson M.D Read Hypnosis in Dentistry cited from lectures on tapes of Milton Erickson. Read Technique for Induction of Resistant Patients ​ Summary of lectures on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Read Top-Down vs. Bottom-up and Hypnosis Summary of an article from the Science Section of the New York Times. Read SEMINARS Hypnotherapy with a lung cancer patient Case report and Presentation given by D.H.Clayton in seminar conducted in Zacatecas , Mexico. Download TORREON 2004 - HYPNOTHERAPY PROCESS The following material taken in large part from lectures given by Milton H. Erickson M.D. Download HYPNOTHERAPY WITH A LUNG CANCER PATIENT Case Study Download NEUROLOGY OF HYPNOSIS Presentation and seminar given by D.H.Clayton Ph.D in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Download MONTERREY - CONFERENCE 12/02 MEDICAL HYPNOSIS Lecture given by D.H.Clayton Ph.D. on 12 2002 in Monterrey, Mexico. Download PAPERS IN SPANISH Tratar los componentes emocionales de la niebla mental por Covid por: David H. Clayton P.hD Download El papel de la expectativa del hipnoterapeuta Independientemente de la técnica de inducción empleada, es esencial para el desarrollo de trances hipnóticos la expectativa y la creencia inquebrantable del hipnoterapéuta de que su sujeto hipnótico entrará en trance. Download El uso de la disociación en psicoterapia hipnótica Guión hipnótico, con modificaciones, parafraseado de las grabaciones de audio de las conferencias de M. H. Erickson Download Un nuevo tratamiento para el trastorno de estrés postraumático por: David H. Clayton P.hD Download 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 Download Personalidad Infravalorada Delirios de insuficiencia. Por D.H.Clayton Ph.D Download Teoría de eventos y motivación en hipnoterapia por: David H. Clayton Ph.D Download Dilema de adopción por: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Trance profundo Un resumen de las enseñanzas de Milton H. Erickson M.D Download Experiencias Ego-Sintónico y Sugestión Indirecta por: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Febrero en Guatemala por: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Tratamiento hipnótico de las convulsiones no epilépticas por: D.H.Clayton Ph.D. Download Formas indirectas de sugestión en la levitación de la mano Dr. Milton Erickson. Documento no publicado con Ernest Rossi 1976-78. Download Dolor e hipnosis Notas tomadas de M.H. Erickson MD "seminarios de enseñanza" Download El trance poshipnótico espontáneo y sus usos terapéuticos Las dificultades encontradas en el proceso ordinario de inducir un trance hipnótico adecuado para la hipnoterapia son bien conocidas por cualquier profesional experimentado en psicoterapia hipnótica. Download Fenómenos de la hipnosis Notas tomadas de M.H. Erickson MD "Seminarios de Enseñanza" Download Inducción de relajación Sujeto sentado y razonablemente cómodo en una silla (con descansa brazos). Manos descansando sobre los descansa brazos de la silla. Download Inducción Primero aprenderemos que tenemos una mente inconsciente porque, todos soñamos todas las noches y, a veces, todos recordamos un sueño, pero rara vez lo entendemos, ¿verdad? Download Orientación a la realidad y sugestiones indirectas La mejor prueba de la hipnosis es la reacción al entorno total y cómo la realidad externa afecta al individuo y cómo éste responde a ella. Download Teoría de la Mente Notas y resúmen extraídos de “Social Why our brains are wired to connect”. Matthew D. Lieberman. Departamento de psicología, psiquiatría y ciencias bioconductuales, UCLA. 2013. Broadway Books; Nueva York. Download PAPERS IN ENGLISH Hypnotherapy with a Lung Cancer Patient A case study by David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Theory of mind Summary of: Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. written by Mattew D. Lieberman Dept. of Psychology, Psychiatry and biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA, 2013 Broadway Books, New York. Download Hypnotic phenomena and dream life Summary of lecture on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Delete what is now written there. Download New Hypnotherapeutic Treatment for PTSD Paper by D.H.Clayton Ph.D. Delete what is there now. Download 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. Download Undervalued Personality Paper written by D.H.Clayton Ph.D. Download Spontaneous Post-Hypnotic Trance and its Therapeutic Uses By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Treatment of sexual Abuse in Adult Female By: David H.Clayton Ph.D. Download Multiple Hands Open Arms By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Event Theory and Motivation in Hypnotherapy By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Hypnotic Treatment of Non-epileptic Seizures By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Ego-syntonic Trance Experiences and Indirect Suggestion By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Developing Cooperation with Trust-Challenged Clients in preparation for Hypnotic Psychotherapy By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Bodywisdom By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Adoptive Dilema By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download Hypnotic use of dissociation in hypnotic psychotherapy Summary of lectures on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Delete what is now written there. Download The role of the hypnotherapists’ expectations Summary of lecture on tapes given by Milton Erickson. Delete what is now written there. Download Treating the emotional components of Covid Brain Fog By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download February in Guatemala By: David H. Clayton Ph.D. Download

MULTIMEDIA MATERIAL Podcast: Interview with Dave Clayton on Chicago Psychology Podcast ​ Episodio 24 Chicago Psychology Podcast 00:00 / 1:06:51 Interview with Milton Erikson Demonstration videos: The following videos were recorded in a classroom within the Human Development Processes Research Institute, in Durango, Mexico. Those who participated in the different sessions are students of the Master's Degree in Brief Psychotherapy and Clinical Hypnosis. Volunteers have consented to the posting of these videos on the site.

This website is designed primarily as a educational resource for psychology students interested in clinical hypnosis and mental health , as well as for those who practice in the dental area and are interested in earning about how to use clinical hypnosis to intervene in their respective fields. The intent is to encourage the development and growth of existing applications and practices in hypnosis and related interventions in all fields of patient care. What is hypnotic psychotherapy? What is trance introduction? How is hypnotic psychotherapy used? How to understand the hypnotic phenomena? Book review: "Social Why our brains are wired to connect." Matthew D. Lieberman. The "theory of mind" refers to the ability to understand that other people have their own thoughts that affect and determine their behavior. This theory allows us to make sense of the minds of others and take others into account to make sense of our mind and behavior. It is a fundamental concept that allows us to respond in an orderly manner based on a set of rules. More importantly, it is a human achievement that allows us to coordinate our thoughts, which would otherwise be isolated, with the thoughts of others to promote cooperation and shared goals. English Spanish David H. Clayton Ph.D. Psychotherapist and Hypnotherapist, with 46 years of experience About the site manager: Dave Clayton has been studying and employing hypnotherapy in his practice of psychotherapy since 1973. Dave spent his first eight years out of graduate school training at a community mental health center on the near north side of Chicago. In 1978, after starting his own private practice, Dave began a student relationship with Dr. Milton Erickson MD until Dr. Erickson's death two years later. Dave has taught and lectured internationally for the last 27 years. He has been published twice in Europe. Dave has been married 50 years to his wife Nancy. They have raised two daughters and are now grandparents to three grandchildren. Both Dave and Nancy are now retired and have lived and worked in Wood Dale Illinois for the last 48 years. Download curriculum: Short CV - Academic version Long CV - academic version CV - Business Version We hope that this site can contribute to new and effective treatments. The site moderators are looking for new authors, if you are interested in participating , send us your document for review and publication. File upload ​ACADEMIC LINKS Institute of postgraduate studies and continuing education, located in the north of Mexico. Areas of study: human development, humanistic psychology and brief psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis

Introduction to Trance Using Hypnotic Psychotherapy Hypnotic phenomena HYPNOTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY According to Milton Erickson MD, hypnosis is an altered psychological state of consciousness characterized by greater receptivity and responsiveness to ideas and suggestions, as well as greater access to unconscious sensations, ideas and memories, without the usual biases and other mental sets limiting factors that normally characterize the everyday consciousness of any person. The trance state is also characterized by certain physiological attributes, such as relaxation, changes in muscle tone, reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and slowing of breathing. Hypnotic psychotherapy, unlike consciously oriented psychotherapy, uses the altered state of consciousness that the hypnotic trance provides, to allow the subject to respond and reorganize their own life experiences, separate and apart from consciously acquired response patterns. By accessing unfiltered unconscious memories, emotions and learnings, a person can be guided to reorder and reorganize their understandings and behavior. Conducted in this way, the therapeutic outcome can be more nearly tailored to each person’s own unique personality needs. Central to this therapeutic process is the unique opportunity that the hypnotic trance provides to work separately and independently, or in collaboration with different aspects of the personality. In the hypnotic trance, the subject can be guided to access and re-associate important aspects of their past experiential life before integrating them into his everyday conscious life. The integration process can be accomplished in steps and stages, and at a pace that the subject can best handle. Participation of the subject in the therapy is the main requirement for effective results. In the trance state, the subject can recognize and re-associate their internal psychological complexities and experiential life. They can learn a great deal about themselves and how to express themselves more effectively and appropriately. It is the subject's own experience of re-association and reorganization of their own experiential life that leads to a good therapeutic outcome and not merely the subject's response to the therapist's ideas and suggestions. The job of the hypnotherapist is to guide and the job of the subject is to learn through their own efforts to understand their own experiential life in a way that allows them to make more effective use of their personality and thus make more effective adjustments to their life circumstances. Erickson emphasized that hypnosis should not be viewed as a general phenomenon but as a phenomenon that governs specific types of physiological behavior, physical behavior, and psychological behavior. Understanding hypnosis in this way allows the therapist to direct his subject's attention towards special processes within himself; be it physiological processes or psychological processes -from altering capillary hemorrhage, to creating numbness, or looking at one’s self at various stages of development. ​ It is important to understand that hypnosis is not a form of sleep. The subject is aware of their world, but in a very special way. Understanding the subject's special type of awareness enables the hypnotherapist to better direct his subject's attention to achieve the therapy he needs. The subject's entry into the trance begins with a withdrawal from his external reality to an internal reality where he is reoriented exclusively to the reality of his own body. To better understand this, consider how we automatically orient ourselves to our external reality. For example, each time we enter a new environment, we do an assessment of that environment and continually update that assessment. This is an automatic process that we learned from childhood and it is part of the biological survival process: an evolutionary learning. Then, as the subject withdraws from his external reality, he maintains awareness of the "map" that he made when he was last in his every day consciousness. He respects his assessment and does nothing more about it until his external reality changes significantly. The hypnotic subject, in trance, doesn’t feel the need to keep updating his map of the surrounding reality and doesn’t feel the need to get back in control of his environment, unless some major change occurs in his environment that affects him. The hypnotized subject can sit in a chair and give no particular response to the surrounding reality because there is nothing in the surrounding reality to alter his behavior. When the subject has withdrawn from attending to his external reality, towards the reality of his body (internal reality), the subject becomes more and more attentive and receptive and particularly open to the ideas and suggestions provided by the therapist. In a trance state, the subject tends to examine and evaluate the ideas and suggestions the hypnotist provides in terms of his own memories, learnings, conditioning, and in terms of all the experiential learnings that he has acquired while living his life. In particular, he listens carefully to ideas being presented by the hypnotist and carefully examines those ideas in terms of their intrinsic value to him. He then responds to those ideas and suggestions in accordance with, and in terms of, his own memories, learnings (including bodily learnings), and conditioning, as well as all his various experiential learnings. He takes the ideas and suggestions the therapist offers and then translates them into his own unique learnings and body behaviors. ​ In other words, the therapist offers the subject various stimuli (in the form of ideas and suggestions) and then the subject translates these stimuli into his own personalized, effective and adaptive behavior through the use of his own experiential learnings. This fairly rapid conversion of ideas and suggestions into therapeutic results occurs in a way that would otherwise be impossible, except for prolonged practice and therapy. INTRODUCTION AL TRANCE Not all people have the same ability to enter hypnotic trances. The ability to be hypnotized can be inherited, according to some studies (Morgan, 1973; Duke, 1969). Others, like Milton Erickson suggest that there is no difference in hypnotic ability (Erickson, 1967 and Barber, 1956) and emphasize training and experience to achieve different levels of trance. Research by Dr. Murray-Jobsis (1991) suggests that both performance on the hypnotizability scales and the manifestation of hypnotic phenomena are "in a dependent relationship." In other words, she suggests that the better the relationship between the hypnotic subject and the hypnotic operator, the better results will be obtained. Drs. Herbert and David Spiegel (Spiegel and Spiegel, 1978) suggest that less than 15% of the population is highly hypnotizable. According to them, this group of individuals has the ability to easily and deeply abstract themselves in activities such as reading a novel or watching a movie. They developed a hypnotic induction profile (HIP) that can be administered in the clinical setting in a short period of time to measure a subject's hypnotizability on a scale of 1 to 5. In order for an individual to "enter" a trance, the hypnotist initiates a transition process called "induction." For a person to enter a hypnotic trance, one or more hypnotic phenomena must be elicited from within the subject. The basic material of hypnotic phenomena consists of unconsciously acquired response patterns (latent learning) and excessively learned behavior patterns that, over time, have become automatic and more or less autonomous in their functioning: they have become part of the ordinary psychological experience of the subject. It is also made up of a lifetime of bodily learnings, underdeveloped resources, past experiences, feelings, and forgotten skills. In general, hypnotic phenomena arise from a repertoire of experiential learning collected and stored throughout the life of the subject. Hypnotic phenomena can be understood as normal aspects of human behavior that occur autonomously and spontaneously when detached from their usual associative (conscious) context. In the trance state, these phenomena can be extended, redirected, and then used to facilitate therapeutic change. In the words of Milton Erickson MD: "... the hypnotist's suggestions are the impetus for behavior, the course and development must be within the subject." It is important to note that most hypnotic subjects do not learn to enter suitable trances for therapeutic work the first, second, or even third time they attempt it. Most subjects require a period of training to learn to remain in trances and to experience various hypnotic phenomena used in their therapy. At first, most subjects try to learn hypnosis with their conscious minds. With training and experience, they can learn to stay in trances with less and less conscious participation and, with proper practice, learn to respond only with their unconscious thoughts and understandings. In other words, the deeply hypnotized subject is thinking and understanding with his unconscious learnings, learning that he is free from the neurotic patterns that constitute his waking conscious life. Thus, you can think and feel more openly, clearly, and consequently more easily accept and practice new ways of thinking and behaving, which may eventually correct your problem (s). USING THE HYPNOTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY The main advantage of using hypnosis in psychotherapy is related to the ability of the hypnotic subject to be psychologically oriented in quite significant different ways. As mentioned above, the hypnotic subject can listen more objectively to the ideas presented and easily respond to those ideas. They can also be reoriented to a different time (either past or future) and place (past or future), as well as experiencing themselves in different degrees of "self" (I). For example, they may reorient themselves to a much earlier time and place, while, at the same time, still thinking and understanding as an adult, that is, being in two states of mind simultaneously. Therefore, the deeply hypnotized subject can be directed to be only an "intellect" without a body, an identity or a history; just a pure intellect separated from your habitual, often neurotic and highly biased conscious thinking and behavior. For example, the individual who is highly phobic, for example to bridges, elevators or airplanes, can be oriented in a trance state to see someone "over there" fighting a phobia who is not them. They can be emotionally withdrawn but intellectually active and supportive. They can observe that other individual and speculate on the origins of the other phobic person's problem and on the correction of their problem, often with an excellent understanding of it. All of this can be accomplished without the emotional burden that phobia constitutes and that avoids objective thinking. In general, the hypnotic subject is related much more from the healthy core of his personality and can think, respond and behave in a psychologically healthy way. PHENOMENA HYPNOTICS Hypnosis is made up of a set of phenomena that can be individualized and used in various therapeutic ways. The phenomena included are: dissociation; time distortion (elongated or condensed perception of it); amnesia; post-hypnotic suggestions; automatic writing; anesthesia and analgesia; hypermnesia; positive and negative hallucinations; age regression and progression; and ideodynamic behavior such as ideomotor indications and catalepsy. Although subjects vary in their ability to manifest these different phenomena, hypnotic interventions can be designed using those phenomena for which the subject shows the ability to develop them. (Edgette and Edgette, 1995). After sufficient training to experience and use various hypnotic phenomena, they can be introduced into therapeutic interventions, using, for example, the hypnotic phenomenon of time warp in which a subject can review a set or series of forgotten events in ten seconds . The memory of these events can be systematically made available to consciousness in a newly organized and more tolerable way for the subject. Barber, TX (1956) "A note on 'hypnotizability' and personality traits." Int. J. Clin.Exp. Hypno. 4: 109-114. Duke, JD (1969). "Relatedness and waking suggestibility". Int. J. Clin. Exp. Hypnosis. 17: 242-250. Erickson, MH 1967 Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy, ed. J. Haley. New York: Grune and Stratton. Edgette, John H. & Edgette, Janet Sasson Edgette. (nineteen ninety five) The Handbook of Hypnotic Phenomena in Psychotherapy. Brunner / Mazel, Inc. New York. Morgan, AH (1973) "The heritability of hypnotic susceptibility in twins." J. of Abnormal. Soc. Psychol. 82: 55-61. Murray-Jobsis, J. (1991). "An exploratory study of hypnotic capacity of schizophrenic and borderline patients in a clinical setting." American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 33 (3) 150-160. Spiegel, Herbert MD & Spiegel, David MD (1978) Trance and Treatment Clinical Uses of Hypnosis. Basic Books, Inc. New York.