The first generation of trance work, that is, traditional hypnosis that
still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the
unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work
involves first knocking out the conscious mind and then talking to the
unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton
Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the
unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique.
Thus, rather than trying to program the unconscious with new instructions,
Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person s own
creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time
Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind.
Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect
suggestions and dissociation and de-potentiate it with confusion techniques.
Stephen Gilligan's third generation of trance work sees this negative
attitude toward the conscious mind as unnecessary and ultimately unhelpful.
Creative action requires a skillful conscious mind to realize the potential of
the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is needed to set and maintain
intention, to sense and evaluate multiple pathways of possibility, to properly
name and represent experience, and to organize actions in a sequential and
linear way.
http://www.amazon.com/Generative-Trance-Third-Generation-Work/dp/1845907817
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