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1. Hypnotically Induced
Dissociation (HID) as a
Therapeutic Resource in
Hypnotic Psychotherapy
Joseph Meyerson, Clinical Psychologist
President, Israeli Society of Hypnosis
HypnoClinic ,Tel Aviv, Israel.
E-mail: meyersoj@netvision.net.il
Telephone: +972-3-604-2525 Fax: : +972-3-604-2525

2. Introduction
♦Concepts Dissociation - Association
♦Pathological Vs Normal or Positive
Dissociation
♦Dissociations in Hypnosis and in
Hypnotherapy
♦Techniques
♦Demonstrations/Cases.

3. Dissociation - Association
Pierre Janet (1889)
♦ In Dissociation one of the
subunits of mental life
becomes split off from the
rest.
♦In hypnosis behavior is
separated from awareness
and voluntary control.

4. Pathological Vs Normal or Positive
Dissociation
♦Pathological: De-realization,
Depersonalization , Amnesia , Identity
Splitting (DID,PTSD, Fugue States,
Somatizations).
“Disruption in usually integrated functions of
consciousness, memory, identity or
perception of the environment “(DSM – 4,
APA,1994).

5. Pathological Vs Normal or Positive
Dissociation
♦ Normal/Positive: Absorption (Book, Movie,
Hobby); Trances (Cultural Trances, Hypnosis );
Remoteness (Holiday, Retreat); Anomalous
Experiences (OBE, Lucid Dreaming, Hallucinatory
Experiences, Near –Death Experiences , etc).
Normal/ Positive Dissociation differ from
Pathological Dissociation by controllability and
flexibility of the borders between dissociated parts

6. Dissociations in Hypnosis
♦External Reality
♦Specific Memory
♦Past / Present
♦Conscious / Unconscious
♦Time Perception
♦Self Perception
♦Pain / Suffering
♦Mind / Body

7. Dissociations in Hypnotherapy
♦Dissociative Disorders (Control)
♦Patients who are to associated with internal or
external stimulation
♦Ego State Therapy
♦Distinction between two or more parts for
separate treatment (psychosomatics)
♦Separation between pathology and health for
new (or forgotten) experiencing.

8. Hypnotic Techniques
♦Deepening of Hypnotic Trance
♦Different levels of trance in different
parts
♦Direct Suggestions for separation and
distancing
♦Metaphors/Symbols of Dissociation
♦Indirect/Ericksonianian Suggestions

9. Demonstrations/Cases.

10. Demonstrations/Cases.
♦ Meyerson, J., & Gelkopf, M. (2004). Therapeutic
utilization of spontaneous out-of-body experiences
in hypnotherapy. American Journal of
Psychotherapy, 58(1), 90-102.
♦ Meyerson, J., & Konichezy, A. (2009). Out-of-
illness experience: hypnotically induced
dissociation as a therapeutic resource in treating
people with obstinate mental disorders. American
Journal of Psychotherapy, 63(2), 133-146.

11. Thank you for
your attention
Joseph Meyerson, Clinical Psychologist
President Israeli Society of Hypnosis
HypnoClinic ,Tel Aviv, Israel.
E-mail: meyersoj@netvision.net.il
Telephone: +972-3-604-2525 Fax: : +972-3-604-2525