Hynosis assignment

[dulcie]

Hi there

I have to write an assignment on hypnosis, I have to write about its suggested theoretical underpinnings, write a critiqu of its strengths and shortcomings of the techniques and strategies and thn write some recommendations as to future avenues of investigation to strengthen the interventions.

Can anyone suggest somethings I can write about as I literally cannot find any information about it

Thanks

[Don]

Hi, Dulcie.

I'm sure people here can suggest many sources. Let me ask this: what grade level are you at? Resources for someone in the 6th grade may not work for a junior in college and a text for a junior in college might not be appropriate for a 6th grader!

[dulcie]

Hi thanks for your response, I am in my final year of my sports science university degree - Really should have put that in before.

I should also say that I have no idea what theoretical underpinnings mean. I am so stuck on this assignment it is untrue, so any help will be so greatly received.

Thanks again

H

[Terry (existing)]

Hi thanks for your response, I am in my final year of my sports science university degree - Really should have put that in before.

I should also say that I have no idea what theoretical underpinnings mean. I am so stuck on this assignment it is untrue, so any help will be so greatly received.

Thanks again

HDulcie, have you any idea what I would say to one of my two grandaughters who are in their first year at University, if they came up with such a question? First, I would ask them why they didn't confirm the intent of the excercise, and secondly, why they were asking me instead of consulting a dictionary! See, I don;t believe in encouraging sloth, and it is just too easy for someone like you to come online and ask that we spoonfeed you information which you will then pass off as your own research, which it is not, and secondly, will immediately forget because you went to no trouble to get it except type on a keyboard....
The information you want is available in many books, all of which can be got from a library at no cost or little cost to you, but requiring some effort on your part which will help transfix such information in your head for some time to come. A dictionary will tell you the meanings of the words you don;t understand with those same results. In your thesis, to whom would you give credit for such information as you get online? Without such credits, your paper will have no value to your prof:
If you don;t know the meanings of "theoretical", or of "underpinnings", there is little hope that you will be of much value to those you expect to serve in the future. Communication is important in all aspects of life, and knowing the meaning of words is essential. Those two words are not words that are infrequently used, and you should know them if you have been educated to University level.
My guess, and I bet I am right, is that you left this assignment until too late to do the research properly, and now want us to dig you out. Sorry, it is time to learn what is important to you, and what is not. I promise you, my own grand kids would get that same reply since I want the best for them, and know it must be earned... Last night, I took another grandaughter of mine to gymnastics, and watched her and several others, all Olympic material doing their stuff, I would hate any of them to need the services of someone in your intended field, only to get one who was too lazy to bother learning properly. They work hard, I suggest you do the same.

[Poodle]

I'll be nice for a change -- definitely out of character for my persona here. Go to ngh@ngh.com Ask your questions (make them enumerated and VERY specific). It's the National Guild of Hypnotists and has about 10,000 members. If you want the truth, you need to get it from the source. I could write your paper easily but you would not learn anything.

Since it is very difficult to write about something you know nothing about, how 'bout a little visit to a local hypnotist just to find out how wonderful it feels.

[dulcie]

Actually Terry, you should not form your opinions too quickly, I don't want to be a pyschologist, in fact I would rather this module wasn't part of my course in the first place, but you we can't alter things like that. My assignment not due in for six weeks actually and I do not want someone to write it for me, I wanted some suggestions, so that I could look the research and write it myself, seeing as you do not know me at all, you woudln't understand that I pride myself on working hard and getting the results I deserve.

I have been sat at this computer for three days solid, trying to find research specifically on the areas that I have asked for advice on and to be honest, I have found only rubbish.

I would hope that you would acutally be quite ashamed of your post, as not single word you wasted your time writting was even remotely true but your obviously not that type of person.

[Connie]

I have been sat at this computer for three days solid, trying to find research specifically on the areas that I have asked for advice on and to be honest, I have found only rubbish.

I find that claim extremely unlikely. Three days solid? That's 72 hours of doing research on the internet, and finding nothing of value???? Maybe you can't tell "rubbish" from "nonrubbish" if you're still at the point where you don't even understand the assignment. Go back and talk to your teacher for clarification of the assignment. He gave you no leeway in topic selection?? Then, once you understand the assignment, you should take Terry's advice to find a nice local library and helpful librarian to point you to some good books to read.

[Poodle]

If you "need techniques and strategies" you had better enroll in a class like a few weeks ago. That is not put on the net as children could play with them and not end up with a positive outcome. I certainly would question: What exactly do you mean by stating "techniques and strategies?" Very specifically what do those words equate to in your teacher's mind. If your teacher has any questions as to the reason for our statements, please have your teacher join us on-line while scanning a copy of teaching certifications. Reads to me like your instructor needs an education as s/he does not understand the complexity of our work. I'm sure Dr. Matt James that owns this Forum would be very happy to educate your teacher for a price.

I have no idea of what under pinnings could relate to so you better ask on that too. Specifically for which class is this and how does hypnosis relate to this class? Have you talked with other members of your class. If so, what is their "take" on the matter?

[skip]

dulcie,

Ive been in this for longer than you have been in school, and I suspect doing full justice to the topic would be daunting to me.

But let me see if I can offer you a bit of direction, and let you find the resource material to back it up.

"I have to write about its suggested theoretical underpinnings."

Here I think you could contrast the basic thinking behind the 'medical model' (that people are broken and need outside intervention to heal. Surgery, medicine, etc) which the psychological model is also based on, you have a problem stemming from your past and must go back and resolve that problem in order to heal (psychoanalytic method); with a newer paradigm, that people arent broken and have all the resources they need to heal themselves if they are able or taught how to access those resources.

'write a critiqu of its strengths and shortcomings of the techniques and strategies'

The strengths are that hypnosis is very powerful and virtually all manifesting problems can be either solved or improved using it. The weaknes' are that skill levels arent uniform, that people are individuals and respond differently, so this isnt ameanable to double blind studies like drug testing or such. Each person/problem has to be approached differently. Standardized test results indicated only 10% of people are hypnotizable, when in fact 100% are.

Good hypnotists dont rely on 'techniques'. That is like shooting a shotgun and hoping a pellet or two hits. They hypnotize each client differently. There are protocol strategies that they use, but I have found them elucidated in very few places.

Poor hypnotists will read a script at you, try some canned 'patterns' and oddly enough people want what they want badly enough that it works suffucently well to keep them in business.

'and thn write some recommendations as to future avenues of investigation to strengthen the interventions.'

Here I would look into how to get new hypnotists to a minimum level of proficency. Higher minimum standards, with a period of residency perhaps. Hypnotism greatest strength is that anyone can do it. Its greatest weakness is that anyone can do it.

hope that helps,

skip

[Poodle]

discussed here before. We had better come up for some real rules for ourselves before the government does it for us.

ACHE think they are the ONLY
NGH - no one can agree (it's like a power struggle with each Instructor teaching what THEY BELIEVE)
ABH - probably like NGH (have not read all the rules)

We just may wake up some day with a very large problem.

I think you may be adding a little NLP into your thoughts too. Some think they are "broken" and can only be fixed by regressed to cause and to let the cause heal -- a current book I am reading. Also uses my favorite word "under".

[Terry (existing)]

Dulcie, please do not attempt to obfuscate here, your post says it all, and you confessed to being ignorant of the words used to start you on your asignment, so no I am not ashamed, my English is excellent, and my understanding of persons your age is very good.
If you truly wish us to believe that you have sat at your computer for three days, and haven't even found out the meaning of two words, never mind anything about hypnosis, you are asking us to consider you to be a complete idiot, is that your intent? If so, you have indeed succeeded, but I suspect that we can no longer accept that you are who you claim to be. Nineteen, and in your final year at University? No idea how to study for a paper? Now that I find interesting. Haven't bothered to find out the intent of that paper, since you don;t understand the meaning of the wording, yet you have sat for three days at your computer? Come on Dulcie, you insult us with such garbage, and then suggest it is we how should be ashamed of ourselves. I can;t speak for others, but my reading says it all, you are a fake. At least, that is the nicest conotation I can put on your post.