IC11 Dialogue 11 – Anecdotes – Sonja Benson, PhD and George Gafner, MSW
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- Topic Areas:
- Dialogues | Storytelling | Hypnosis | Metaphors
- Categories:
- Erickson Congress | Erickson Congress 2011
- Faculty:
- Sonja Benson, PhD | George Gafner, LCSW
- Duration:
- 53:34
- Format:
- Audio Only
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 10, 2011
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
Description: How can brief stories create meaningful therapeutic shifts? In this dialogue, Benson and Gafner demonstrate how anecdotes function as powerful clinical tools—whether for ego strengthening, instigating unconscious problem solving, or creating distance through personal experience stories. Through live demonstration and discussion, they show how short, well-placed narratives can build resilience, unlock stuck patterns, and deepen hypnotic work without lengthy scripts.
Credits
Faculty
Sonja Benson, PhD Related Seminars and Products
Sonja Benson, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the U of MN. She has worked as a medical psychologist at the VAMC, in EAP programs for two Fortune 500 companies and in private practice. Sonja is a member of the APA and ASCH. She has published two books on hypnosis with George Gafner.
George Gafner, LCSW Related Seminars and Products
George Gafner, MSW, LCSW, recently retired as director of family therapy and hypnosis training at the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Tucson, Arizona, and continues to work there in a hypnosis study in the gastroenterology department. He is the author of four previous books on clinical hypnosis as well as 35 journal articles.