Tutorial: Kinaesthetic Confusion

The following content is a chapter from our book, The Hypnotic Handshakes.

Kinaesthetic Confusion

In his exceptional volume, Therapeutic Trances, Stephen Gilligan rightly notes that Confusion – when used as a hypnotic technique – predominantly relies upon the practices of interruption and overload.1 Erickson’s ‘Ambiguous touch’ handshake perfectly utilises both.

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Footnotes

  1. See Gilligan, Stephen, Therapeutic Trances, p. 235.