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The Principles of Hypnosis:CONTENTS
 
Dylan Morgan
  THE BOOK is arranged in three parts: A, B and C.Part A, like the root system of a plant, is a foundation. It brings into mindsome of the materials that will be needed for the remainder of the book. These chapters are only loosely connected to each other.Part B, like the stem of a plant, develops the central theme of the book,which is the key processes involved in Hypnotherapy. These chapters arestrongly connected and should be read in order.Part C, like the leaves or fruit of a plant, spreads out again. These chaptersare all developments from the ideas of Part B, but are not otherwiseconnected strongly. They can be read in almost any order, and areintended to stimulate thought in a variety of new directions.PART AIntroduction.  This describes the kind of book you are reading. It is a book which isdevoted to presenting a unified theoretical view of the subject. In this wayit is new and unique. It does not present any new facts, but ratherarranges the facts in a new light. It presents a new paradigm for Hypnosis.Chapter 1: Clearing the Ground.Here we make sure that we know what certain key words will mean in thisbook. The word Hypnosis will refer ONLY to the subject and not to somehypothetical state or condition.Chapter 2: Hypnotic Phenomena.Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are particular fields of human knowledge. Wemay delimit such fields of knowledge by their subject matter: thephenomena they deal with. A brief overview of some of the standardphenomena of Hypnosis is given to remind the reader of what the subjectsinvolve.Chapter 3: Introducing Systems. 
 
A very important idea which is central to future development is that of 
systems
, and particularly organic systems. This chapter introduces someof the basic properties of systems which will recur throughout the book,primarily their level of activity, and the most basic ways in which theymight affect each other. An important shorthand notation is alsopresented.Chapter 4: Other Theoretical Approaches. It is useful then to examine various other theoretical approaches whichhave been taken to the subject. This overview will deepen theunderstanding of the newcomer. The range of theories is classified with aneye on the way in which they can be related to particular organic systems.It will be seen that the systems approach gives a way of unifyingdiscussion and analysis of the whole field. The primary conclusion is thatprevious theoretical models have been based on noticing that Hypnotictechniques change the functioning of one particular system of the mind orbody and then extrapolating to the idea that this particular system orchange is the key or definitive feature of Hypnosis. Each theory thereforehas some truth to teach, but none provides a complete picture.Chapter 5: Interlude - Analogous Processes. In this chapter the reader is reminded of many other organic systems withwhich he or she is familiar, such as organisations, ecosystems, economiesand families. The purpose is to activate in the mind certain patterns of organised thought; certain dynamic images; a certain organic approach toa subject which is a useful one when we develop the "Morganic" approachto Hypnotherapy.Chapter 6: A First Order Classification of Subsystems useful inHypnotherapy.In this chapter we take a rather closer look at the central systems withwhich we deal in Hypnosis, in order to perform a rough classification. There are those subsystems which interface with the externalenvironment, which can be classified into active, e.g. muscular, vocal; andresponsive, e.g. vision, hearing. Then there are those subsystems whichdeal with the internal environment, e.g. emotions, internalised speech,visualisation and a variety of maintenance and defence systems.Important among this last class is the "flight or fight" process. Thiselementary classification is then used to illustrate the principles alongwhich Hypnotherapy can proceed.Chapter 7: Processes.  This brief chapter takes a closer look at the matter of distinguishing
 processes
as opposed to distinguishing structures. It also considers yetanother complex system as an example of an organic system: anorchestra. The particular virtue of this example is that it provides us with a
 
concrete image of what we mean by a process of a system: it is akin to thescore of an orchestral work. Another very important point made, which isneatly illustrated by this example, is the distinction between the
kinematics
of a process -
how
a thing proceeds - and the
dynamics
-
why 
itproceeds as it does. No amount of analysis of subsystems will in principleenable us fully to understand an organic process by merely analysing itssubprocesses: we must also always be aware of the influence of largersystems and processes of which it is in turn a subprocess.Chapter 8: Tests. Anyone familiar with Hypnosis will know many "tests" of Hypnoticresponsiveness. These are used in an attempt to determine how readily apotential subject will respond. The purpose of this chapter is to re-evaluatesuch tests within a systems framework as follows. The tests remain tests,but tests not of Hypnotic responsiveness but of how readily one system of the brain or body activates another in a given individual.Chapter 9: Inductions. "Hypnotic inductions" are traditionally thought of as processes that theHypnotist goes through in order to "Hypnotise" the Subject. But they aremostly presented with little or no explanation of how they work, or of whatis the purpose of their various parts. From a systems point of view itbecomes much easier to see what the purpose of an induction is, andexamples are given to illustrate this way of thinking. The result is a moreprecise, flexible and accurate approach to this area within the field of Hypnotherapy.PART B This central part of the book takes a very close look at the process of Hypnotherapy, in more or less the order that it arises in real life, startingwith the initial diagnosis. In doing this the value of the systems approachand the notation we have outlined in Part A become more apparent anddevelop real strength, throwing further light on how a variety of Hypnoticphenomena are produced.Chapter 10: The Process of Hypnotherapy. Stage 1: Elements of Diagnosis.  This chapter starts to look at the process of diagnosis by looking at thepresented symptom. It then describes the first step in a process of diagnosis which involves looking at precursors and resultants of thepresented symptom. A precursor is a system, a change in the activity of which produces the symptom. A resultant is a system whose activitychanges as a direct result of the symptom. In this way we build up a clearpicture of the dynamics of the problem. The typical picture is a chain of systems each affecting the next, with the problem symptom somewhere inthe middle. A situation of considerable importance arises if the chain formsa loop, colloquially termed a vicious circle.
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