Generative Trance: The experience of creative flow
Author(s): Stephen Gilligan (Author)
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Publication Date: 25 Oct. 2012
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 308 pages
ISBN-10: 1845907817
ISBN-13: 9781845907815
Book Description
The author emphasizes that reality and identity are constructed by ourselves, and explains how generative trance is crucial in creating new realities and possibilities for clients. It is a view that differs markedly from the traditional hypnosis ideas of a client losing control, as well as from Ericksonian approaches that feature a benevolent hypnotist who bypasses the conscious mind to work with a client’s unconscious mind. Instead, generative trance stresses a “disciplined flow” process in which a person’s conscious and unconscious minds cooperate to weave a higher consciousness capable of transformational change. The book offers a framework for developing this creative consciousness, including a step by step processes for creating it. Stephen Gilligan has been developing this work over the past thirty five years, first as a protege of the great hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, and then as the originator of the post-Ericksonian approaches of Self-Relations and Generative Self. William James used to say that ‘the unconscious mind is the horse and conscious mind is the rider: it’s the relationship between the two that is most important.’ This book shows you how to harness the relationship for a much more powerful and effective therapeutic intervention.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Steve Gilligan is the closest I`ve experienced to being with Milton Erickson since Erickson`s death in 1980. His new book, Generative Trance, delivers a tour-de-force of the latest thinking of third-generation hypnosis in a charming and organized way. This is the definitive overview of a new approach in psychotherapy and change work. I continue to learn from Gilligan and look forward to returning to this book, again and again, to gain even deeper insights. –BIll O’Hanlon, author of Taproots, An Uncommon Casebook, A Guide to Trance Land and Solution-Oriented Hypnosis
There is a revolution taking place in psychotherapy that sheds the limitations of naïve models of therapy and change. Stephen Gilligan is one of the most important leaders in this transformation of practice, particularly as it applies to hypnosis. His “generative trance” marks a major advance in helping us resourcefully relate to all that clients and therapists bring to a session. We enthusiastically recommend it to both your conscious and unconscious mind! –Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. & Hillary Keeney, Ph.D.
This latest book by Steve Gilligan puts into practice the Ericksonian principles he has taught brilliantly for decades. He extends his self-relations model in several important ways, especially in the memorable sections on welcoming and weaving the identity parts into generative trance in order to allow new parts of the self to be born through generative transformation. Though not a simple book, Generative Trance provides several easy-to-follow frameworks, including the four steps of generative trance and the five key generative methods presented in the book s second section. Specific scripts are offered to help the reader learn to vocalize hypnotic suggestions so that their receivers connect with positive intentions, with the five somatic dimensions of generative trance, and can explore and engage with generative fields where creative acceptance and transformation can take place. If you want to learn deeply from a true hypnotic artist, do not miss this book! –Maggie Phillips, Ph.D. Co-author of Healing the Divided Self and Finding Freedom From Pain
About the Author
Stephen Gilligan PhD, has become a leading figure in Ericksonian hypnotherapy. He is the developer of the Generative Self approach to personal growth. A licensed psychologist, Stephen maintains a private practice in Encinitas, California.
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