Weekend-1: Jay Haley’s Strategic Hypnotherapy &
Family Hypnotherapy
Review of Stage-2
Certificate Course
Introduction to Jay Haley’s
Strategic Therapy Model
Milton Erickson and Jay
Haley
Encouraging resistance
Providing a worse
alternative
Causing change by
communicating in metaphor
Encouraging a relapse
Encouraging a response by
frustrating it
The use of space and
position
Emphasizing the positive
Seeding ideas
Amplifying a deviation
Amnesia and the control of
information
Awakening and disengagement
Avoiding self-exploration
The family life-cycle
Adolescent transition and
young adulthood
Character revision
Marriage and relationships
Childbirth
Family dilemmas
Weaning parents from
children
Ageing
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-2
Weekend-2: Introduction to Rossi’s
Psycho-biological Hypnosis
Review of weekend-1
Models of Scientific
Holistic Medicine (George Engel & Laurence Foss)
Hypnosis as a 'Systems
approach' to mind-body therapy
Clinical assessment
protocols in scientific holistic medicine
Dr Ernest Rossi and Milton
Erickson
Ultradian and Circadian
Rhythms in hypnotherapy
State Dependent Memory,
Learning & Behaviour (SDMLB)
The concept of ‘information
transduction’
Relating Rossi’s work to
scientific systems-based (holistic) medicine
Mind-modulation of the
endocrine system (psycho-neuro-endocrinology)
Mind-modulation of the
immune system (psycho-neuro-immunology)
The neuro-peptide system
Ideo-motor signalling,
calibration and confirmation in psychobiological hypnotherapy
Organ (visceral)
‘behaviour’.
Transductions across Jung’s
‘psychoid’ boundary
The placebo response.
Practical skills and
experiential training in psychobiological hypnosis
Recommended readings
Home study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-3
Weekend-3: Medical Anatomy & Physiology for
Hypnotherapy
Human surface anatomy
Essentials of physiology and
physiological regulation
Surface anatomy and medical
conditions (including symptom profiles)
Differential diagnosis
between surface anatomy symptoms and psycho-genic substitution
Generating and removing
surface anatomy symptoms using hypnosis
Medical referrals
Hyperventilation, trance
states and suggestion (introduction to somaticization through
respiratory dysfunction)
Practical skills training
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-4
Weekend-4: Rossi’s Ideo-Dynamic Approach to
Mind-Body Healing
Motivation, stress and
mind-body healing
The mind-molecule connection
Women’s consciousness and
psycho-biological clock regulation
Ideo-dynamic therapy in
gynecology and obstretrics
Sexual development and
dysfunction
Target organ vulnerability
Ideo-dynamics with critical
emergencies
Practical skills training
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-5
Weekend-5: Medical and surgical conditions for
hypnotherapy
Cardiac conditions in
hypnotherapy – presentation and differential diagnosis, medical
referrals
Hypertension and
hypnotherapy
The Charing-Cross Hospital
model of cardiac rehabilitation
Silent cardiac ischemia and
emotional release (death by abreation)
Chronic fatigue and
effort-syndrome
Hypnosis and
hyperventilation syndrome
Hypnosis with irritable
bowel and GI tract spasm disorders
Hypnosis and neuro-endocrine
conditions
Hypnosis and neurological
conditions
Skeletal-muscular conditions
and hypnotherapy
Asthma and hypnotherapy
Hypnosis in trauma and
post-operative healing
Hypnosis and trichology
(hair disorders)
Hypnosis for eczema and
psoriasis
Hypnosis for speech
disorders
Hypnosis in cancer therapy
Practical skills training
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-6
Weekend-6: Hypnosis in respiratory
psychophysiology
Review of weekend-5
Introducing the pH
regulation of the body
State-changes in the
mind-body through pH dis-regulation
pH as a ‘state-encoder’ in
state-dependent, memory learning and behaviour
Use of the clinical
capnograh (mass spectrometer) with hypnotherapy
Investigating and measuring
Freudian defence mechanisms (repression) using real-time measurements of
carbon-dioxide regulation.
Use of clinical capnography
in differential diagnosis
pH dis-regulation and acute
psychotic symptoms
pH regulation and the
removal of physical symptoms
The role of respiratory
psychophysiology in psycho-somatic medicine
Respiratory psychophysiology
and cardiac healthcare
Respiratory psychophysiology
and Rossi’s psychobiological hypnosis
ISARP: The International
Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology
Practical skills training
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-7
Weekend-7: Hypnosis and Clinical
psychophysiology
Review of weekend 6
Rossi’s model of hypnosis
and Clinical Psychophysiology
Rossi’s psycho-biology of
gene expression in hypnosis
Rossi’s systems model
(complex adaptive system of gene expression)
Relating Rossi’s work to
General Systems Theory and the New Paradigm Medicine
Rossi’s ideo-dynamic
healing, hypnosis, and Carl Jung’s theory of complexes
Hypnosis, dreams and healing
The evolutionary psyche and
hypnosis (psychoanthropology) how the ancient human mind affects
physical, psychological and social health today.
Post-traumatic stress
disorder and hypnosis (SDMLB)
Forensic hypnotherapy
Practical skills training
Recommended readings
Home-study components and
assessment
Preparation for weekend-8
Weekend-8: Stage-3 integration and synthesis
Review of all weekends (1-7)
Integrative practice of
hypnosis with clinical psychophysiology
Stage-3 (Medipsych Full
Professional Member) final assessment
Dissertation preparation
Stage-3 Assessment
Students will be continuously assessed on a
skills basis. A final examination will be held that addresses the
integrative practice of hypnotherapy as an applied clinical
psychophysiology. The exam is in a short-answer and multiple-choice
format. There is also a dissertation requirement, the topic to be agreed
between the student and Renaissance. The essays, final examination and
dissertation are externally marked. Students are required to pass all
components of the course.
Successful completion of Stage-3 confers the use
of the initials Dip.Clin.Hyp (Memb.RA) designating a Full Practitioners
Diploma Qualification in Clinical Hypnotherapy, with Full Professional
Membership of the Renaissance Academy. A Practitioners Diploma and Full
Professional Membership Certificate are issued by Renaissance.
Registration
Graduates may then apply for Professional
Registration with the British Society for Clinical Psychophysiology (BSCP)
- a Skills for Health (SfH) Stakeholder in the Department of Health (DoH)
National Occupational Standards (NOS) Consultations for Psychological
Therapies, and, with the British Complementary Medicine Association (BCMA)
the UK's foremost complementary medicine representative body.
