Re: Confusion Technique

Kaveh,

I do not have information on LTM / Confusion.

However, there are three books I know of which you may find useful for your other questions:

Therapeutic Trances by Stephen Gilligan

He describes the Confusion Technique as "...essentially communications that disrupt a person's conscious processing strategies, thereby enabling the development of experiential trance processes."

Stephen has written a very useful chapter on Confusion Techniques and I highly recommend reading it (and the whole book....)

TranceWorks by Michael Yapko, also gives clear examples of its use in hypnosis as well as intentional ways of creating confusion for therapeutic purposes.

I have seen the Confusion Technique used in hypnosis in at least three ways:
Confusion to occupy the attention of the conscious mind so that communication with the unconscious could occur more effectively.
Confusion to encourage the listener to search for his or her own meaning within the message.
Confusion to increase the state of readiness in the listener as they look to the speaker for additional information to make sense of what is being said.

You'll want to remember, Kaveh, what Jeffrey Zeig and W. Michael Munion have written in "Milton H. Erickson" (a series on Key Figures in Counseling and Psychotherapy from Sage Publications) that "...techniques no more constitute Ericksonian therapy than do paints in tubes constitute art."

Best wishes for your experiment,

Joe

Replies:

Re: Confusion Technique, by Kaveh Samani, 3/15/00 Re: Confusion Technique, by george gafner, 3/15/00

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