Established in 1978
Syllabus
for Certificate qualification
- Hypnosis
- What it is
- How it can be induced
- It’s various uses, abuses and limitations
- Various scales/ gauges of depth of hypnosis
- Susceptibility / Suggestibility tests - how necessary or useful they might be
- Contra-indications / when hypnosis is not advisable
- The subconscious
- The human subconscious as a computer - the basic idea
- How and why the subconscious reacts
- How and why it causes mental problems
- How and why it causes physical problems
- The difference between hypnosis, hypnotherapy and Lesserian™ Curative Hypnotherapy
- The importance of finding the true cause of a problem
- Making the distinction between trigger and cause
- Hypnotic induction
- How to induce hypnosis
- Five basic induction methods
- How to gauge when an induction is suitable
- How to manage the state of hypnosis
- How to adapt and enhance other induction techniques
- When to use which technique - and why
- Direct suggestion
- Its place in treatment
- The need for caution in its use
- When and why it can be safely used in treatment
- Visualisation
- Minimum of five different techniques
- The four main purposes of using Visualisation
- When to use which technique - and why
- Ideo-motor response
- What it is and how it works
- The five main uses in treatment
- Why it is so valuable to a Curative Hypnotherapist
- Hypnotic deepening procedures
- Six different methods
- When, why and how they can be used
- How to adapt and enhance other deepening techniques
- Obtaining information from the subconscious
- Five different methods, their reliability and accuracy
- How to use the information gained
- How to direct questioning and treatment towards key information
- How to tell if the information is relevant
- Emotions
- How to prevent a patient from abreacting/ experiencing uncomfortable emotions
- The relevance and in advisability of experiencing emotion in treatment
- The part emotions play in creating problems
- Physiological affects achieved by hypnosis
- Moral and ethical aspects of treatment
- Initial meeting and consultation with the patient
- What the therapist needs to know
- What the patients need to know
- Diagnosis.
- Deciding whether a particular problem can be treated - and how
- Deciding whether a particular patient can be treated
- Specific Questioning
- Pain relief
- Smoking Cessation (anti-smoking) treatment
- Business
- Laws and regulations (professional, governmental, European)
- equipment, literature, etc
- area and choice of premises
- finance
- essentials of basic office work
- advertising
- professional organisations
- insurance
- patient's personal records
- accounts
- For list of the kinds of problems this course will enable you to treat, please see Symptoms page.
- Practical Application: - From 5.15pm to 6.30pm on Saturdays during the course, time is reserved for course members to practice different methods and techniques on each other, thus ensuring not just an understanding of them but confidence in their practical application.
- Self-hypnosis is a necessary part of the course. You should experience the state of relaxation that you will be inducing in your patients, quite apart from the benefits that deep relaxation will bring to you. For those who do not already have this ability, we run a Self-Hypnosis class during the early evening of one of the Saturdays of the Practical course.