Chapter 11 - Conditions for Trancework - For Discussion

Q1. What kind of physical environment for doing trancework would you create if cost were no barrier?

A1. The answer to this is simple, the environment needs to be comfortable with the possibility of few distractions. The reality is that the environment is not important, just that it is accepted and utilized is vital.



Q2. What is you opinion of the "computerized hypnosis" approach? Why do you feel that way?

A2. It is a gimmick, it is standardised and does not work to the assumption that each client is different. I don't fee it would be a sustainable experience as it would become boring due to being impersonal.



Q3. How might ignoring an intrusion cause a client to pay even more attention to it?

A3. Ignoring the intrusion pressures the client indirectly to pay even more attention to it. The intrusion presents itself and has the potential to become the focal point of attention and break trance, the accept and utilisation principle allows the clinician to bring the new intrusion 'in' as part of the experience, the new incorporation places a new frame around the intrusion, accepted as part of the experience ion a way the clinician specifies.



Q4. Can suggestions from a computer or cassette tape be as effective as those from a live person. Why or why not?

A4. The cassette tape or computer program can always be interrupted by an intrusion, which the machine cannot accept and utilise. The program is unchangeable and depends on the absolute suggestibility and obeying selfless accepting of the client, with no resistance.