The Neuroscience of Utilization: The interplay between brains of client and therapist

1. The Neuroscience of Utilization: The interplay between brains of client and therapist Richard Hill MA, MEd, Dip. C www.richardhill.com.au

2. BecomingHuman

3. The Interplay

4. Meaning MakingMeaning Responsive

5. What Is Utilization • “Whatever a client presents, including negative experiences, can be positively used for therapeutic change” - Stephen Gilligan

6. C.O.A.T… Curiosity Oriented Approach To…

7. That’s Interesting • INTERVIEWER: You don't feel that exploring the past is particularly relevant? I'm always trying to get clear in my mind how much of the past I need to consider when doing brief therapy.ERICKSON: You know, I had one patient this last July who had four or five years of psychoanalysis and got nowhere with it. And someone who knows her said, "How much attention did you give to the past?" I said, "You know, I completely forgot about that." That patient is, I think, a reasonably cured person. It was a severe washing compulsion, as much as twenty hours a day. I didn't go in to the cause or the etiology; the only searching question I asked was "When you get in the shower to scrub yourself for hours, tell me, do you start at the top of your head, or the soles of your feet, or in the middle? Do you wash from the neck down, or do you start with your feet and wash up? Or do you start with your head and wash down?"INTERVIEWER: Why did you ask that?ERICKSON: So that she knew I was really interested.INTERVIEWER: So that you could join her in this?ERICKSON: No, so that she knew I was really interested.

8. The Problem Is a Message • Problems into solutions – Gilligan • The Symptom Is the Solution – Dilts • The Symptom Path to Enlightenment – Rossi • Constructive Method - Jung

9. What Can I Create With That? • Erickson: • Confusion • Amplification • Encourage resistance • Metaphor • Double Bind

10. The Neuroscience

11. Mindsight Daniel Siegel (2010) Mindsight - Norton Theory of Mind: Saxe and Kanwisher (2003), "People thinking about thinking people: The role of the temporo-parietal junction in 'theory of mind', Neuroimage 19, 1835-1842

12. Resonant Rhythm

13. Mirror Neurons&Empathy Sinigaglia C, Rizzolatti G. (2011) Through the looking glass: self and others. Conscious Cognition 20(1):64-74. (Motor Possibilities) Carl Rogers: To perceive the internal frame of reference of another Simon Baron-Cohen -Understanding the others feelings + an appropriate emotional response

14. Neural Association Associative cortex Earl Miller, MIT mPFC

15. 4-stage Creative Process Ernest Rossi - Nathaniel Kleitman – Basic rest and Activity cycle Graham Wallas - 1926

17. How We Remember

18. Implicit Expression

19. Activity

20. 9 Voices

21. EMBODY the UNTRUE TRUTH (Jerome Kagan) 6-8 y/o accepting socio-cultural environment as belonging to self

22. ARGUE the UNTRUE TRUTH

23. Creating Beneficial change

24. The Interplay

25. The Interplay MIND Brain Autonomic System Immune system Endocrine System Neuropeptides peptides CNS (spinal) Vagus nerve BODY

26. C.O.A.T… Curiosity Oriented Approach To…

27. A Theory of Utilization In the context of a psycho-neuro-biological Interplay • Utilisation promotes the likelihood of enacting an intervention that will have a beneficial effect on the patient’s living system.

28. A Theory of Utilization In the context of a psycho-neuro-biological Interplay • Utilisation is an integrated and relational response to the implicit/explicit (intuitive) information that is provided by the client regarding their unconscious needs and the pathway to reach them..

29. A Theory of Utilization In the context of a psycho-neuro-biological Interplay • We hear/see/feel/sense what is emerging from the client and participate in the experience toward beneficial change.

30. The Purpose of Life To creatively participate in the experience

31. www.richardhill.com.au richhill@iinet.net.au