Title: The Seven Psychodynamics of a Symptom - A Roadmap for Choosing Therapeutic Techniques
Presenter: Gregory Kuiper

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Clients often fail to respond to positive suggestions but don’t make it obvious as to why. There may be one or more basic reasons for the subconscious to block the client’s desire to change. Charles Tebbetts categorized these basic reasons into what he called “The Seven Psychodynamics of a Symptom”.

Tebbetts believed that a client under hypnosis is more likely to disclose the real cause of their problem than a hypnotist speculating on a real or imagined cause intellectually. Tebbetts believed that even when a client held an opinion at a cognitive level, the best answer was still inside the inner mind, buried deep inside the subconscious.

By asking a series of seven specific questions, a hypnotist is able to to uncover the source of the client's subconscious resistance to change and thus the hypnotist is relieved of the task of having to look for the problem on a cognitive level. These questions can be answered by the client using ideo-motor signalling with finger responses. We will examine this technique and learn a simple way to implement it.