Advanced Workshop with Devin Terhune, PhD

Devin Terhune, PhD

Please join the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis in welcoming Devin Terhune, PhD for our 2025 Advanced Workshop via Zoom on Saturday June 21, 2025, as he presents “Hypnosis: State of the Science (with Clinical Implications)”

This event is being recorded, and will be available for 4 weeks to those who register.

June 21, 2025

9 AM – 4:30 PM CST

Hypnosis: State of the Science

(with clinical implications)

The following program offered by the Minnesota Society of Clinical Hypnosis has been submitted for 6 CEUs towards ASCH membership and/or certification

Description

This workshop aims to introduce attendees to the science of hypnosis, with a focus on state-of-the-art research. The workshop will comprise four subsections on distinct topics, including contemporary research on hypnotic responding and the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis; the relations between hypnosis, suggestion and psychopathology; current state of the evidence regarding the clinical efficacy of hypnosis; and the relevance of hypnosis and suggestion for scientific research on, and clinical applications of, psychedelics. Each subsection will conclude with a brief consideration of the implications for therapeutic applications of hypnosis. Upon completing the module, attendees will have a good understanding of contemporary developments in the field and be positioned to critically evaluate this work.

Date	Saturday June 21, 2025
Time	9 AM – 4:30 PM CST
CEUs (ASCH CEUs applied for)	6
Location	ZOOM
MSCH Member Cost	$85
ASCH Member Cost	$100
Non-Member Cost	$125
Registration	Register for Workshop

Agenda – All Times CST

AGENDA – All Times CST

9:00 – 9:05 AM	Welcome and Introduction
9:05 – 10:25 AM	State of the Art Research on Clinical Hypnosis
10:25 – 10:40 AM	Break
10:40 – 12:00 AM	Hypnosis, Symptom Perception & Psychopathology
12:00 – 12:10 PM	Clinical/Therapeutic Implications
12:10 – 1:10 PM	Lunch
1:10 – 2:30 PM	Hypnosis Treatment Efficacy: State of the Science
2:30 – 2:40 PM	Clinical/Therapeutic Implications
2:40 – 2:55 PM	Break
2:55 – 4:15 PM	Hypnosis, Suggestion & Psychedelics: Current Research & Future Applications
4:15 – 4:25 PM	Clinical/Therapeutic Implications
4:25 – 4:30 PM	Wrap Up

Objectives

Workshop Objectives

Upon attending the workshop, attendees will be able to:

Describe recent developments in the measurement of hypnotic responding.
Explain the principal features of predictive processing accounts of hypnosis.
Summarize current knowledge regarding the link between hypnosis and psychopathology.
Evaluate research papers describing clinical interventions involving hypnosis.
Describe the clinical efficacy of hypnosis for different symptoms and conditions.
Assess the role of suggestion effects (hypnosis, placebo, and nocebo) in response to psychedelics.
Identify ways by which hypnosis and psychedelics can be integrated in experimental research and clinical practice.

Biography

Devin B. Terhune, PhD, is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychology in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience at King’s College London. He completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and psychiatry with an aim to characterize different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states, and how they can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents.

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2025 MSCH Advanced Workshop with Devin Terhune

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