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REAL REBT ALIVE AND KICKING IN KORTRIJK WITH DR DEBBIE JOFFE ELLIS

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:54:00 +0000

DEBBIE LEADS US WITH RATIONAL HUMEROUS SONGS

Since the death of Dr Albert Ellis on July the 24th 2007, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and its younger sibling Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, have continued to flourish.

The last time I saw Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis was on a hot April day in 2007 in a rehabilitation and nursing home in New York City. She was almost singlehandedly nursing her sick and ailing husband, the legendary Dr Albert Ellis, creator of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. To the end he practiced what he taught; he unconditionally accepted self, others and the world and then worked to change what he disliked. He remained free from anxiety, anger and depression, even although he was deeply saddened when he was denied control of his Institute in the final years of his life. Al was voted one of the most influential therapists of the last 100 years and was a true heavyweight in psychology, author of over 80 books, 800 academic papers and Fellow of over 12 divisions of the American Psychological Association. He told me that REBT differed from CBT inasmuch it was more philosophical. He also defined rational as self-helping; “In REBT theory, rational mainly means self-helping, but because people practically always live in social groups or communities, it also means socially helpful and socially interested”.

I arrived in the small Belgian town of Kortrijk on the 13th of May 2009, where the weather conditions were not dissimilar to that day in New York and the people were as friendly. Kortrijk is about 30 kilometres North East of the 4th major city in France, Lille. Debbie was there as a guest of Belgian Psychologist, Dr Hilde Van Rossen, who had invited her to do a keynote speech and workshop on REBT at Katho University on the 14th.

Hilde has in the past taken over groups of students to New York to learn from Dr Ellis. On one occasion, he was very ill before such a meeting but refused to cancel; he felt that it was important for the students to learn more about REBT in order to help themselves and others. He was 93 at the time and the doctors later identified he had had a heart attack before the meeting. On another occasion, he had arranged to see a group of students in the nursing home that day but was rushed to hospital as his blood sugars were erratic. He then insisted on teaching REBT to the students in the Emergency Room of the hospital. Albert Ellis practised what he taught, “nothing is awful.” Since there are 8 billion human beings on planet earth, with billions and billions of brain cells each, bad things inherently happen, only we can take a true statement i.e. that something, person or situation is bad, then catastrophise and globally rate self, others and the world into awfulness, thus creating anxiety, anger and depression. We always have a choice how we react, it might not be a good one but we do have the choice. As I said in my e-book, when the Jewish Psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl was interned in a concentration camp and he sang Zip-e-doo-dah into the face of the Commandant who said to Frankl “How can you be happy in a place like this?” Frankl said “you can do what you want to me, but I choose to be happy”.

In many ways, Al Ellis wanted to empower the client to live their life more effectively and not get bogged down with spurious hypotheses. In short, REBT is beautiful common sense. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president” said Albert

REAL REBT IN ACTION

Inside the modern lecture theatre on the outskirts of Kortrijk, Dr Hilde Van Rossen gave a historical perspective of REBT in Flemish. The 300 psychologists, psychotherapists, therapists, academics and students applauded warmly when Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis was introduced to speak. Debbie was devoted to her husband and cared for him around the clock for years. When he was hospitalized or in the nursing home, she would always sleep in the same room with him. I witnessed her love, care and loyalty to Al and in the REBT tradition, she stood up to speak with clarity, elegance, structure, intelligence and humour, despite jet lag from a staggering trip from New York to Melbourne back to New York then on to Belgium. She told the packed auditorium that she knew of no other therapy as efficient as REBT for helping motivated people to get better and enhance their personal and working lives. Time is finite and we suffer needlessly when we could exercise choice. “Al taught us that we have the power to create our emotional destiny.” Albert Ellis experienced illness as a child and learnt at an early age not to make himself anxious, angry or depressed. His first experience using what was to become part of REBT was at age 6 when in hospital and was rarely visited by his family. Even at this young age he did not depress himself about his loneliness.

So REBT was really pioneered in 1919, when Al realised that at age 6 if he kept thinking badly he would feel bad! This was what Professor of Psychiatry Aaron Beck of the University of Pennsylvania proved many years later, i.e. lying in a darkened room recalling early traumatic memories made self feel worse.

We enjoyed watching exclusive video clips of Al speaking about REBT and in front of a huge screen with a picture of him, Debbie spoke of her time when she worked in India helping the under privileged. She discussed how the people learned from their village elders that by accepting discomfort, they would achieve greater comfort by realising that despite some very difficult conditions, it could always be worse. Debbie is too modest to say this, but I learned that she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Indian Board of Alternative Medicines; the other honourees were Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the physician to the Dalai Lama.

Al would say that only humans could think about our thinking and through work and practice, modelling, goal setting and shame attacking exercises, we could achieve greater happiness. As a teenager, he was shy around women to overcome his shyness he forced himself to sit on a park bench outside the Bronx Botanical Gardens and had a hundred pleasant conversations with women. He made one date and the woman didn’t even turn up, but it was a valuable lesson he carried into psychology that by putting himself into situations he would rather avoid, he realised that cognitively and philosophically, nothing bad actually happened, and he overcame his shyness and fears.

Debbie did a demonstration on stage with a person suffering from personal problems. She diligently and precisely highlighted that what the person was going through emotionally was normal. (It is amazing from my own clinical experience how many people pursue a goal of nirvana that does not exist and then depress themselves.) It was terrific to see Debbie, a licensed Australian psychologist, licensed New York mental health counsellor, Doctor of Alternative Therapies, wife and partner to Dr Albert Ellis for many years, so vibrantly breathe, teach and help that person with Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. This alone was worth my somewhat less arduous journey from Edinburgh. Debbie spoke of Unconditional self acceptance (USA) unconditional other acceptance (UOA) and unconditional life acceptance (ULA). This amazing keynote speech was closed with us all singing rational humorous songs. Al used these songs to show people to take themselves and others less seriously and to engage the creative part of the brain; today we may call it enhancing psychoneuroimmunology.

In the afternoon, Debbie held a workshop where she answered many questions on REBT and in-depth, described how we as humans disturb ourselves with non-self helping beliefs and rigid demands. She took the time to explain to the members of the workshop and spoke with them afterwards about the problem solving prowess of REBT. During the workshop, she significantly helped a participant with a phobia. She kept the session very much in the present and went with what the client said, no pre-suppositions or guessing at alleged unconscious motivations. She closed this demonstration using Rational Emotive Imagery (REI). This involves the person actively bringing on the symptoms that he/she dislikes by imaging the situation that is problematic, allowing the symptoms to be there for one minute, then changing his/her thinking so that a better outcome emerges. Again Al Ellis was well ahead of the rest of science; it was not until February 2003 when an article appeared in the New Scientist magazine entitled “Not so Total Re-call” that two neuro-scientists discovered that memory is most vulnerable to change at he very time that we dislike it.

After REI, Debbie’s client felt a lot better and realised that nothing awful was actually happening. REBT has been described as superficial, prescriptive by the Freudians. Within my practice of 16 years, I have seen it help a person when many, many other forms of therapeutic approaches that look good on paper have failed and that includes Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. To me, Al is the pioneer of the greatest psychotherapeutic approach in existence and Debbie is continuing his legacy, as he entrusted her to do. It was a pleasure to attend such an authentic, substantial and exciting workshop lead by a charismatic and enlightening psychotherapist. The Ellis legend lives on!

I spoke at length with Debbie back at my Hotel and was privileged to see a clip of the forthcoming documentary on Al and to hear about his auto-biography that will be out later this year.

Debbie has given me permission to organise conferences in the UK next year 2010 at which she will be presenting and there are additional exciting projects yet to be announced.

Please contact me through my website www.exclusivehypnotherapy.com for information on these exciting upcoming events.

Robin W. Thorburn ADHP (NC) MNRHP UKCP (H)

HYPNOTHERAPY-WHAT IT REALLY IS

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:34:00 +0000

Hypnotherapy-what it really is

BY ROBIN W. THORBURN ADHP (NC) MNRHP UKCP (H)

Hypnotism is a subject which often intrigues, mainly due to a general lack of knowledge and understanding, but also because of the perceived ‘magical powers’ associated with it.

I think it relevant to first of all make a distinction between hypnotism and hypnotherapy. My initial reaction is to define hypnotism within the realm of stage hypnosis as hypnotism does not really mean anything. Hypnosis on its own is a futile aspiration if you then do nothing with it. Stage hypnotism involves the practice of engendering humour from the audience whilst subjects indulge in ridiculous behaviours. Hypnotherapy on the other hand involves utilising hypnosis and then doing therapy or healing within the hypnotic framework.

Stage hypnotists, like some hypnotherapists, have hidden behind mysticism and “magic” for many years and the general public has been deceived or put off by these practitioners.

First of all let us de-mystify hypnosis. Hypnosis is derived from the Greek word to sleep. However, if the person was asleep or unconscious they would hear nothing of the therapist’s words. A more accurate definition would be comfortable self-awareness. Many people are surprised on entering a hypnoidal state that they do not fall asleep, go unconscious or emerge with a personality transplant! The reason for this expectation comes from the stage hypnotist. In the phenomenon known as somnambulism, 18% of the general population can enter a hypnotic state rapidly. The stage hypnotist, by conducting a series of suggestibility tests, finds those highly suggestible people. He will ask all the audience to imagine their hands sticking together with superglue and those whose hands “stick” together rapidly are the somnambulists and those are the people he wants to work with. Often the remainder of the audience simply believe that they cannot be hypnotised and the people he has just found have been planted by the stage hypnotist. Well the reality is that if they wish to enter a hypnotic state they can. Let us therefore move away from the stage hypnotist to hypnotherapy.

The medical profession has been using hypnosis to assist in surgical procedures, both dental and medical, where anaesthesia was not available or contra-indicated. Sigmund Freud, the father of Freudian psychoanalysis also used it, but later described it as “too capricious”. There are in my view three reasons for that statement; 1. Freud apparently was not very good at inducing hypnotic states, this seems to be a pattern amongst some medical Doctors, as they tend to be too prescriptive or direct whilst having accessed their patient’s creativity, thereby speaking in the wrong manner to the wrong part of the mind. There is really only one form of hypnosis and that is self-hypnosis. It therefore becomes all the more relevant to speak to the client about their hobby, their interest as it is the therapist’s job to guide the client towards his/her own comfortable self-awareness. 2. There is an element of truth in what Freud said as in my view hypnotherapy alone is not often enough to resolve a person’s difficulties longer term. Many, many people require and deserve conscious understanding. 3. Freud was using free association within hypnosis, this means that the person was recalling and associating events in their life (mainly sexual) in a bid to free themselves from neuroses by way of a cathartic release. Freud’s psychoanalysis has been largely proved to be unscientific and ineffectual in helping the person get better.

Good hypnotherapy involves the therapist utilising what the client presents, their hobbies, interests and even the presenting problem e.g. obsession with washing hands can be used; they are already fixated or in a trance state with their pre-occupation as it is so why not get them to focus their attention on it again but this time to bring about a better outcome for the client. By lowering the tone of his voice and thus compelling attention, using pauses, inflections and metaphors, drawing his words and asking the client to recall all the sights, the sounds and feelings that go with being more and more relaxed, this can create comfortable self-awareness. The therapist can guide and simultaneously during the induction of hypnosis create a therapeutic outcome by directing the client towards a more flexible viewpoint regarding hand washing. “Remember as a child when you were sure things were one way but turned out to be something else entirely” provokes a recall of a different attitude, “I would not want you to give up your repetitive hand washing now… but maybe next week you can choose a time when it will be right for you to significantly reduce the intensity and feel it melting like a stalactite of ice in a heat wave” This wish that he will not change it immediately potentiates a wish to change within the client, then a pre-supposition that the client can change allows a preparation towards a more successful outcome. This is done by asking the client to see themselves in a past problematic situation, initially experiencing the emotion that they dislike and then feeling it for one minute, (since this is accessing a past memory which is composed of our five senses, including feeling, which has been created by an irrational non-self helping demand, and since the memory at this point is most vulnerable to change) by philosophically observing the memory thus pairing neutrality to it instead of fighting or avoiding it (thus reinforcing it) and then allowing self concern, the person will see a better outcome spontaneously appear. This is called Rational Emotive Imagery. This is martial arts for the mind, utilising the initial force of the problem then changing it into concern from i.e. anxiety, concern is overcome able and normal anxiety debilitates. “You can always yield and come out on top” believed Milton Erickson, a prolific researcher into hypnotherapy.

A hypnotherapy session lasts about 30 minutes, during which the person may experience rapid eye movement (REM), limb catalepsy (shoulders arms legs become heavy) and a time distortion, where 30 minutes may seem like 5 minutes as the person becomes so inwardly comfortably focused on resolution of the problem that they lose track of time. In fact, the good sessions are when the therapist loses track of time as he enters into a trance thus utilising his own creativity and experiences. Throughout the therapist will use potent key words at the moment when the client is engaged in making an inventory of his/her problem solving skills.

I personally have learnt a very great deal from Dr Albert Ellis the founder of Cognitive/Rational Emotive Behaviour therapy. I have found this therapy to be an extremely useful adjunct with hypnotherapy, to increase longer term results and give the client far better insight into their problem. Taking them into the past without giving them the road map can often confuse and make things worse. Some inexperienced therapists still look for past life events that once happened to a person but overlook the irrational non-self-helping demand they are telling themselves NOW!

Many people before coming to see me are metaphorically using a road map of Beirut; they desperately need the road map of Edinburgh. In fact it would be very good idea for REBT to be used in schools to develop a rational self and other helping attitude; this would probably save the NHS millions of pounds, cut crime and improve mental and physical health.

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (R.E.B.T.) takes the view that while we can influence external events occurring in the world, we cannot stop them. Problems arise when we demand that events/people Should, Ought or Must be a specific way and if not I, you or the world must be awful, but since the world is populated by 8 billion human beings each with billions and billions of brain cells, bad things are likely to happen! Humans are not perfect; it is our inaccurate definition that bad things Should, Ought or Must not happen that creates and maintains anxiety, anger, depression, then a dependency on fictive treatments. If we could put these three detrimental emotions under one title it would be awful, but since bad things happen, nothing is awful. “We are and probably always will be mistake making animals as human beings, but in order to ignore that fact, we create fiction, myths, heroes and heroines” Maintains Dr Ellis. Uniquely, Dr Ellis gave the world of therapy a definite model to work from that allowed the therapist to accurately diagnose and treat psychological symptoms.

R.E.B.T. and hypnotherapy combined treat the client’s symptoms on both levels and allow a client to be freed from troubling past events and to be able to manage future challenges; the client takes the cure with them. Hypnotherapy, a much misunderstood phenomenon, is an extremely effective therapeutic tool which merits much deeper understanding and far wider use.

Hypnotherapy can treat a range of conditions, including anxiety, panic attacks, sporting performance, public speaking, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, pain control, smoking, weight loss, exam nerves, business performance and blushing. It can also be utilised in Life Coaching.

ROBIN TO HOLD SEMINARS "PHYSIO FOR YOUR BRAIN" DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:30:00 +0000

Robin has been asked by a number of his clients and colleagues who are eager to learn in greater detail his combining of hypnotherapy and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy -REBT is a more philisophical form of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, CBT- please click on the Seminars page for details The Seminars will be open to the public and therapists alike, it will be a one day event and he will speak about each of those methods individually then demonstrate them combined, it will be educational, therapeutic and enlightening as he takes the mysticism out of therapy and shows you how it works so that you can take long term peace of mind with you and "flex your rational self-helping muscle" and become your own coach/counsellor and to keep this rational philosophy for the rest of your life.

Robin has conducted over 7000 therapy sessions ( and he's still only 46 years of age) and has learned so much from Dr Albert Ellis, Al Ellis is a Fellow of over 15 Divisions of The American Psychological Association, author of over 75 books, over 600 research Papers and voted one of the most influential Psychotherapists of all time. REBT/hypnotherapy is substantial, no smoke and mirrors, no playing on the fact 18% of the population can enter a deep trance state rapidly and making it look miraculous, no mental gymnastics, no buzz words no $1000 Dollar suits, no exorbitant fees, no "Master" Certificates, just the most trialled psychotherapy (with effective hypnotherapy) in the world whch consistently yields LONG TERM RESULTS.

Dates to be announced.

Please contact me for more details;
robin@exclusivehypnotherapy.com or 0131 445 2485
or click on the Seminars page to book.

In the meantime go to www.pnosis.com and click on The Eye, scroll down and you will see an interview Robin gave with the American hypnotherapy website which profiled his unique approach.

ROBIN AND DR ALBERT ELLIS MEET IN NEW YORK

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:10:00 +0000

Above; Robin and Dr Ellis

Right; Robin and his partner Myra

Below: Robin, Dr Ellis and his wife Debbie

I had the honour of being invited to visit Dr Albert Ellis on the 20th April 2007 in New
York City.
He is a member of The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the Board of Scientific and Professional Advisors, has practised individual and group Psychotherapy with more than 15,000 clients, given workshops around the world, published over 600 papers and over 75 books. He is a fellow of over 12 divisions of The American Psychological Association, a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of The American Board of The American Board of Professional Psychology, a Diplomate of The American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, a Diplomate of The American Board of Psychotherapy, and of course created Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, the most widely used therapies in the world that consistently produce excellent long term results.

I first contacted Al in 2003 with a manuscript I had written called
Breaking The Vicious Circle of Psychological Misery. He gave it a favourable
review and I sell it as an e-book on my website http://www.exclusivehypnotherapy.com/

Since 2003 I have since kept in touch with Al and his lovely wife Dr Debbie
Joffe Ellis. They have been a priceless source of knowledge in broadening
my understanding of people and gaining deeper insight into Rational Emotive
Behaviour Therapy.

As some of you may know, Al is going through very difficult times with "his"
Institute and his health. .Back in the 1950's Al set up The Albert Ellis
Institute and donated his Townhouse (now valued at over $30 million) and the
royalties from all his books. The Institute was an Internationally
recognised seat of learning. The other trustees recently decided to remove
him from the Trust that still bears his name, this has left Al out on a
limb because he relied on a very meagre income from AEI, and his health
expenses have since rocketed. With the backdrop of Litigation in mind, I
will not go into great detail on my thoughts other than to say Al needs help
from lawyers and help with his medical bills as he has many illnesses to
contend with.

He is very brave and true to REBT Philosophy is accepting of, and working
to overcome adversity. Recently he lectured a group of Belgian students in
the afternoon, despite feeling very unwell (it later transpired that he had
had a heart attack!) Debbie aware of him being unwell wanted the questions
kept to a minimum, when asked by Debbie just how many he would continue to
answer he said " a hundred"!

My partner and I made the journey to New York after being invited there by
Debbie. I was honoured, as Al is recovering from his second bout of
pneumonia and the heart attack, all at age 93.
I have had many in-depth communications with him and telephone
conversations with Debbie in relation to REBT and the trouble with Albert
Ellis Institute. Debbie herself has been on the receiving end of it's
attacks, yet there is no one I have met who is more committed to the welfare
and recovery of Albert Ellis and the continuation of true REBT than her. She
really is a beacon of hope in a murky pool. She sleeps in the same small
room as Al on a recliner every night in the rehab centre, and given Al's
multiple medical difficulties and severe hearing impairment, she is
constantly disturbed throughout the night to oversee and communicate with
him. There is no financial remuneration in it for Debbie. She really is a
fantastic person whose genuine love for Al is breathtaking. Those who have
maligned her should be ashamed of themselves and I use the word Should
advisedly!

We met with Debbie in the foyer of the rehab centre at 3.00pm on a hot
steamy Friday afternoon. We had flown in from Edinburgh earlier that day and
were acclimatizing ourselves with the general friendliness of the New
Yorkers and the constant sound of car horns.

Debbie appeared looking lively and sprite, yet I know that the lady is
weary, sad and concerned about the pain her husband endures.

We arrived at the small room with the great man lying in bed facing a
window, Al waved and acknowledged our presence, his hands shaking with the
erratic blood sugar levels in his body. He still has a good head of hair,
strong arms and that incredible half smile. I exchanged gifts with him. I
was given a beautiful photograph of him and Debbie taken three months ago. I
enclose it here.

We sat and talked about Al's health and his hope for REBT, he hoped it would
"forage ahead". I asked him a number of questions, I wanted to know how he
defined the difference between CBT and REBT. He replied REBT is more
philosophical. I asked him what he thought about NLP, as I hold the belief
that if the therapy was as good as it's marketing it would be brilliant,
(also he is a Diplomate in Clinical Hypnosis from The American Board of
Psychological Hypnosis) he described it as "crap". He had visited Scotland
once. Was there anything I could do for him? "Send a copy of the photos" we
were taking.

The visit lasted two hours with interruptions from Doctors and nurses. I
asked him why despite rationally showing people and disputing their
irrational beliefs did they still hold onto their problems? "They are
addicted to them" he said in gruff voice. Al is still mentally sharp and
answers question instantly, but with few words, he lies quietly a lot of the
time but his face lights up when asked a question on Psychology. He endures
pain and given how sore and sensitive his skin is for a 93 year old accepts,
but intensely dislikes the constant blood sugar checks done with needles.

I thanked him for giving therapists the world over a recognisable, common
sense model that we and our patients can follow. He nodded. I shook his hand
and thanked him for reviewing my book.

In Canada, Al was voted the most influential Psychologist of the last 100
years, second in America.

To me he is the essence of care and common sense. He would be a worthy
winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. as he is one of the most outstanding
humanists of our time. He has done more for psychotherapy to move it out of
the Freudian, unscientific magical dark ages and into a treatment that works
effectively. He says what people do not want to hear but probably know to
be the truth and does not bamboozle them with mental gymnastics. He
challenges nutty magical, mystical, childlike thinking. He gets you to think
about your thinking and realise the inaccurate definitions you have made
about yourself and highlights our rigid, inflexible demands from self and
others.These, he states, are the "the essence of psychological disturbance".
He describes self-esteem as "the biggest sickness known to mankind as it is
conditional", arguing that self-esteem is dependent on what we should do in
order to satisfy others into thinking we are worthy human beings and that
"shouldhood equals shithood, therefore self-esteem is no more than perfume
for shithood". Unconditionally accepting yourself and others if for no other
reason that we are mistake making animals.

Al Ellis is the real thing and I hope to see him again soon.

He has helped thousands of people world wide, yet now when he needs help, he
is being ignored.

Please help the Grandfather of modern Psychotherapy by visiting his website

http://www.rebtnetwork.org/ and help in anyway you can.

Sadly Dr Ellis died on the 24/7/07 age 93.

A Memorial Service took place at Lerner Hall Auditorium, in New York City to which I was invited by Al's wife Debbie.

Speakers were: Dr Aaron Beck, Institute for Cognitive Therapy, Dr Alan Kadzin, incoming President of American Psychology Association, Dr Jeff Zeig, Founder and Director of Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Dr Paul Kurtz, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Dr Jon Carlson, Distinguished Professor of Psychology/Counseling, Dr Frank Farley, Past President of American Psychological Association, Dr Bill Knaus, Past Director of Training at The Albert Ellis Institute.

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend due to other committments, however, had I been there I would have spoken about the unswerving committment and loyalty from Debbie to Al in the months and years I knew them both. Debbie was a constant source of comfort and care during Al's illness's and I was fortunate enough to witness first hand the immense love and rapport there was between them. Al's face would light up just hearing Debbie's voice, and a smile would appear that said "I adore you".

Debbie was magnificent and true to Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy was unconditionally accepting of people.

I spoke with Debbie the day after the Memorial Service and she was glad so many people had appeared, yet sad because of the memories it brought back.

It was Al's wish that The Institute that he created and financed would "forage ahead" with true REBT and for it to be administered by the Board he has named. Sadly that is not the case at this time.

Robin W. Thorburn ADHP (NC) MNRHP UKCP(H)

COGNITIVE & RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY WITH HYPNOTHERAPY ACHEIVE LONG LASTING RESULTS

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:42:00 +0000

For too long the public has been fed "miraculous results" of hypnotherapy, NLP and past life regression therapy by therapists determined to indulge in mysticism. This child like and irrational thinking is the essence of many problems.
After 16 years clinical practice, I have found that hypnotherapy allied to Cognitive Therapy (the most trialled therapy in the world that consistently yields good results) brings longer term peace of mind to the client, rather than a short term "fix". CBT quickly and effectivley highlights the conscious thoughts the person is telling their unconscious mind or memory and it is these conscious thoughts that lead to illness or ineffective behaviour. CBT then works to create more effective rational thoughts. "Your unconscious won't cure a damned thing, you cure the unconscious thoughts and feelings by making them conscious". Dr Albert Ellis originator of CBT/REBT.

You can feed a person for the day or teach them how to hunt for the rest of their lives.

"The public remains largely unaware of the research supporting the efficacy of CT...but numerous studies show Cognitive Therapy is as effective as medication in treating depression, and often better than drugs for conditions like anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder" Washington Post Sept 3rd 2002...at 15 months CT was superior to both imipramine and relaxation" (Shear et al (1994).

6 April 2005 Study: Cognitive Therapy as effective as drugs in treating depression. In a study of 240 patients, researchers found that Cognitive Therapy, a type of treatment that teaches patients to think more realistically, worked as well as a popular anti-depressant for moderate to severe depression...if people quit taking Paxil (Paroxitine) after 4 months, their relapse rate was twice that of therapy patients..."it establishes, I think, once and for all that Cognitive Therapy does as well as pharmacotherapy, and what's even more important is that it has a much lower relapse rate," Professor Aaron Beck, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Director of the Center of The Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia

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WHAT IS HYPNOTHERAPY AND WHY MODERN APPROACHES WORK-YOU WILL NOT BE ASKED TO SPEAK

noreply@blogger.com (Exclusive Hypnotherapy) — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:34:00 +0000

The answer comes from Dr Milton H. Erickson, regarded as the finest researcher and pioneer of healing in hypnosis.

Erickson had little patience with the claims of Parapsychology, with religious beleifs in miracles, or with the popular fads about "psychic energy." Hypnosis for Erickson was a natural phenomenon that utilized ordinary psychological processes...it usually required a great deal of training, intelligence and work on the part of the therapist to acheive those seemingly miraculous results...
Healing in Hypnosis Milton H. Erickson

There is still a view that getting to the childhood root of a problem will resolve it using hypno-analysis, this means looking for an original childhood cause. Thankfully, modern well trained therapists have moved away from this medieval beleif. Professor Aaron Beck, a psychiatrist from Pennsylvania University and prolific researcher originally trained in Freudian Psychoanalysis proved that lying in a darkened room recalling early traumatic childhood experiences actually made the person worse! "I set out to prove that the people who were critical psychoanalysis were wrong, but actually I proved them right". Dr Albert Ellis, founder of Cognitive /Rational Emotive BehaviourTherapy, also originally trained in Psychoanalysis, later dismissed it as "Freudian horshit".
I, myself volunteered for 15 sessions of hypno-analysis and the only thing I learned is how False Memory Syndrome and mental fatigue are created, I also used it in my early career but discovered that it did not help people, the root of the problem is the persons beleif NOW to look for an excuse from childhood as to why you hold an irrational beleif in the present will only keep the person ill, this is not Therapy. The unconscious mind is a depository for many bad memories, best not exhume what is better left in peace. "It is interesting that having cured many, many people worldwide from nervous suffering that I have never once had the need to conduct an indepth psychological profile...they are in a Fear-Bewilderment-Fear cycle and understanding whatever may have contributed to that is not going to help the patient get better now... many therapists pick on complications."Dr Claire Weekes M.B.E., M.B., D.Sc., F.R.A.C.P

With my hypnotherapy, you will not be asked to speak, creative up to date methods are used to reactivate good programmes of behaviour that already exist within you and transfer them into the problem area, thus dilluting the problem.
This combination of REBT/Ericksonian hypnotherapy which has been acknowledged by my peers to be extremley effective www.pnosis.com (click on The Eye and scroll down)