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.Will you recall for me exactly what you consider the mostessential thing that I did which changed you?" Your client will then tellyou really great things to do! A lot of the techniques that we teachpeople in workshops have come from doing pseudo-orientation intime.It takes either a fairly good hypnotic subject or rigorous hypnotictraining to be able to do this.It's a complicated trance phenomenon.Of193course, once you've become used to doing it, it's not complicatedanymore.Another thing I do is to set up a signal for the different states.I try todetect where the polarities lie.If they are temporal, then I set up signalsfor the different time zones.Some of them are contextual: some peoplehave sequential polarities depending upon whether they are at work orat home, for example.Some people switch between vacation andeveryday life.If it has to do with a drug substance, then of course I setup an anchor that induces the substance state.When I have good anchors for both parts, I can literally carry onconversations with each one sequentially.With the manic-depressivewoman I talked about earlier, I had anchors for a July visit, and for aDecember visit.I set up anchors not only covertly, but also directlyhypnotically: "When I touch you on the knee, it will be July" so that Icould literally go back and forth between the two parts and work withboth of them.So when I did reframing, I'd induce one state and I'd say"Now, you go and ask the part." and then I'd induce the other stateand do the same thing.It was like doing reframing with two people atthe same time.I used to run groups where I would bring in ten or fifteen people andjust start going around the room, using the six-step reframing model.The first week I would always do it with content, and then the nextweek when they came back, I could do it purely formally.I would havethem pick something that they could talk about the first few times tomake sure they could tell the difference between an intention and abehavior and that sort of thing, and I would go around the room andtroubleshoot as they all went through the steps at the same time.Man: But the two parts of the manic-depressive woman are in thesame person.How do you reframe them to the same conclusion?If you have sequential incongruity somebody diets like crazy andthen gains weight like crazy that's actually only an incongruity at thelevel of content.At the formal level, the two parts are the same.Bothare obsessions, and both of them show a loss of control.One is saying"I'll starve myself; the other is saying "I'm going to eat everything insight." At the content level, they are opposite, but at the formal level,they are exactly the same.Those people don't diet intelligently.Theydon't build up to a maintenance program slowly.It's always eithercrash diets or "pigging out." If you offered them anorexia, they'd takeit! The solution has to take the part that overeats and give it some otherway of getting what it wants so that it goes back to eating in modera-194tion.And the part that diets like crazy also has to be reframed, becauseotherwise when you reframe the eating part, the diet part will go"Ahhhh! Now is my chance!" and go crazy, and then you will get abacklash in the other direction.After I've worked with the two states in someone with a sequentialincongruity, I usually build a part whose job is to integrate these twostates, or I set up some kind of unconscious program to lapse togetherthe times when they operate.With the secretary, the times were sixmonths, so I didn't want to do it that way because it would have takenyears to get anywhere.I decided to do time distortion: I went into thepast and set up a program for integration to begin five years earlier andhave the date of integration be the date she was in my office.It didn't take me long to do this, because anybody who is thatdissociated is a great hypnotic subject.She would have to be, or shecouldn't be so dissociated in the first place.I did a hypnotic inductionand arrived in her past as someone else, some shrink she had seen fiveyears ago.As that shrink I installed the integration program in herunconscious, and then had her create all the necessary alterations inher history so that she could conclude the integration spontaneously inmy office, five years later.Sometimes in order to be able to work thesethings out, you have to create a lot of personal history.Woman: I have a client who became amnesic for everything preced-ing an incident in which he "came to" and found himself lookingdown the barrel of a shotgun, with a stick on the trigger to fire it.Nowhe's totally amnesic for his whole life prior to that time.As you mightexpect, he comes from a really awful family situation.He also has a lotof experience at dissociation, having been an alcoholic for a long time.Now he's a sober AA person.I think you're talking about the same formal situation.What has herequested from therapy?Woman: Well, his stated goal is to get his memory back.That kind of goal reminds me of a kind of fairy tale from mychildhood.When I was a little kid, my folks used to read me fairy talesat bedtime.I was the oldest of nine kids, and we used to have these bigfamily storytimes that were really fun.It was a nice ritual.One class of stories that my parents told used to drive me crazy.Some character would be walking along through the forest one dayand suddenly he would meet a magical creature whose beard hadgotten caught in a fallen tree.I could never figure out what kind of amagical creature would be stupid enough to get his beard caught in a195fallen tree! The main character would save the magical creature, andthe magical creature would say "You now have three wishes." Theperson would always blow it.He'd immediately say "I want to beimmensely wealthy." Then the entire countryside would be destroyedand in ruins, and his family would be wiped out, because everythingwould be covered with gold [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]