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Room:
Parallel room 1
Topic:
Clinical application - hypnosis in psychotherapy
Type of presentation:
Workshop
Duration:
60 Minutes
14:15 pm
Building bridges in couple therapy in a hypnosystemic way: the encounter of „multiple trance beings“ and how one can utilize that in a fulfilling way- or „Polygamous-monogamous“ relationships of „multiple personalities“
Dr. Gunther Schmidt | Milton-Erickson-Institut Heidelberg | Germany
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Dr. Gunther Schmidt | Milton-Erickson-Institut Heidelberg | Germany
In couples relationships very quickly there are built up interactional rituals (the longer the partners are together the more that happens) which function as hypnosis-like priming and which lead to certain routines of consciousness processes with the same quality of what Milton Erickson callesd varieties odf „common every day trance“. This is connected with the activation of certain „partial ego´s“ (sometimes also calles in a rather reifying manner as „ego states“). The partners in the couple are often so associated with these „partial ego´s“ that they think they (and also the partner) would be „just so“. Described in a metaphorical way one can say that each partner is not together with one person but with many „partial persons“ in one partner. So metaphorically each partner lives in a „polygamous“ relationship in a officially monogamous one.
If these processes end up in fullfilling and as beautifully experienced encounters that is wonderful fort he partners. But when the partners experience probelms in the relationship. But when problems in the relationship are experienced usually those „partial egos“ are encountering each other which lead to frustrating and often discounting rituals in the relationship with escalating effects. This is associated with narrowed vision and more rigid rituals of encounter which can destroy the realtionship although one can find constructive potentials in the unconscious „experiential repertoire“ for fulfilling encounters.
In the workshop it will be showed (theoratically and practically)
a) how the emerging „partial egos“ (also those which are experienced up to now as destructive, discounting etc.) can be understood and utilized and communicated as competent „messengers“ of valuable needs;
b) how one can support couples by focussing interventions (e.g. with strategically constructed questions, imaginations, metaphorical and symbolic and also with embodiment- based interventions etc.) in a way that the mutual partners can be experienced as „helpful reminders“ oft he own optimal experiences for fulfilling encounters. In this way both partners are enabled „to send the most appropriate and helpful ego“ fort he situation and for enriching encounters into the relationship.