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Presenter: Elgan Baker, PhD, ABPH and Eric Spiegel, PhD

Hypnotic Strategies to Manage Relationship Factors in Psychotherapy

Relationship factors have long been identified as critical variables in the process and outcome of psychotherapy. This workshop will identify and explicate three major components of the therapeutic relationship and explore what each contributes to the therapeutic process: the transference, the nontransference, and the alliance. Dimensions of these factors will be related to iatrogenic regression, defense dilation, interpretation and insight, self-awareness and mentalization, enhanced observing ego functions affect regulation, and therapeutic change. Hypnotic strategies will be presented which are useful in evoking, focusing, modulating, enhancing, titrating, and utilizing each of these factors and this interaction for specific goals and outcomes in the therapeutic process. Strategies and techniques will be demonstrated through case examples and experiential exercises. Modifications and applications needed for patients at varying levels of structural maturity will also be discussed.