Monthly Webinar -‘Working models of hypnosis in clinical practice’
Event Details
‘What are yours and why is it useful and important to have them?’
Members have free access to this event and will be sent the zoom link via the mailing list.
This monthly webinar takes place between 6 and 7.30pm.
The key presenter is Micheal Heap who is introduced by Grahame Smith
Aim: To help clinicians clarify which features of hypnosis they think they are utilising with their therapeutic techniques
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand what we mean by working models of hypnosis in clinical practice.
2. To be aware of “Heap’s Caveats” regarding the models and techniques and of “Heap’s Principle”
About this webinar:
Grahame Smith will introduce Mike Heap, adding some background and observations as to how he has found the models useful in clinical practice and in training colleagues. He will include some commentary about the models and how their applicability for various clinical conditions and therapeutic schools and techniques make good food for thought.
Mike will be talking about how it is useful (for the practitioner of hypnosis) and important (for the status of hypnosis) to have these models. In essence they make explicit the assumptions that inform our use of hypnosis, notably why we think what we are doing is going to help our patient or client to overcome his or her problems. It is also important, through research, to put these assumptions to the test to advance our understanding of hypnosis and provide it with a sound basis. When Mike was writing the chapter in ‘Hypnotherapy: A Handbook’ he came up with those five models because they seemed to represent what most people using clinical hypnosis implicitly assumed. But other people may come up with different models.
We will consider “Heap’s Caveats “and “Heap’s Principle” and extend the ideas in to the open discussion period. We hope it will be a lively one.
Please find here the PDF of the teaching handout that you may find useful to have available to you for the discussion
Mike Heap is a psychologist, now retired and living in Sheffield. He started out in clinical psychology in 1974. Before then, from 1970, he worked as a research psychologist in a hospital for patients with brain damage. He has also held part-time teaching and lecturing posts at universities. In 2001 he qualified in forensic psychology and worked half-time as a consultant and eventually lead psychologist for over 10 years in a medium secure hospital, combining this with private practice.
Mike’s professional interest in hypnosis began in 1977 with the establishment of the British Society of Experimental & Clinical Hypnosis. For many years he was its secretary and chairman. In 1990, he and a team of other professionals established a Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis course at the University of Sheffield, and later a MMedSci, which he directed until 2000. He has taught and lectured about hypnosis widely in this country and abroad. He has written many journal articles and book chapters and jointly authored and edited several books on hypnosis.
Mike is a member of Humanists UK and has worked as a voluntary Humanist adviser in chaplaincies in Sheffield, currently at the Multifaith Chaplaincy of Sheffield Hallam University, working mainly with bereaved students. He is also a school speaker on Humanism. He has a strong interest in modern skepticism and is the organiser of Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub, which he and others set up in 2009.