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Mike Bulgakov

Mike Bulgakov

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4. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

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stringertom

stringertom

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Mike Bulgakov said:
4. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

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Have you seen the ubiquitous trailers on Showtime for their upcoming series that fits in with your theme here? It’s got a Lord Of The Flies plot line parallel but it’s contemporary teenage girls marooned from a plane crash. Melanie Lynskey (Rose on 2.5 Men) , Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis are three of the cast. Premiere is next Sunday.

5. Sorbonne beret (in any color but green!)
 
Mike Bulgakov

Mike Bulgakov

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stringertom said:
3. Mortimer Hartman
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4. Milton Erickson

Another reason to avoid handshakes:

Handshake Technique Procedure
Therapy involves communication within a change-oriented context in which the therapist engages the client in conversation, forming interactions, which can start with a simple handshake. This handshake can be utilized to facilitate the hypnotic elements in these therapeutic conversations.

Erickson and Rossi & Rossi (1976) describe the handshake technique by starting with a firm hand grasp, then slightly adjusting the operator’s fingers, creating momentary confusion by refocusing the subject’s attention with the different sensations felt, as the operator withdraws their hand. As the operator withdraws their hand, the subject’s habitual framework is interrupted, thus creating a hypnotic touch.

This procedure can be detailed into the following steps:
  1. Engage with client or subject.
  2. Gaze into the client’s or subject’s eyes (as part of the initial exchange via eye contact).
  3. Slowly reach out to shake or grasp the hand.
  4. Grasp the client’s hand in a normal handshake.
  5. Slow the handshake down by pacing and leading the client’s hand during the clasp.
  6. Shift the touch and pressure, slowly releasing the handshake.
  7. Slowly release the hand from the handshake; slide hand away.
  8. Meanwhile, if/or when speaking, use a slow, smooth, monotone relaxing voice.
  9. Maintain a gaze, looking into the client’s or subject’s eyes, leaving the client’s hand buoyant, as in arm levitation.
  10. Direct the client therapeutically, thus utilizing the outcome.
  11. If necessary, for reorientation, provide suggestions.
A similar process naturally occurs when taking vitals. Carich and Junge (1990) noticed pantomime hypnotic experiences when taking vitals, particularly pulses. By taking a pulse, for longer than required, the subject’s arm can be suspended in mid-air, forming a cataleptic response. This experience is similar to the handshake technique in developing cataleptic responses.

Key Elements
There are several key hypnotic elements involved in the technique
  1. Fixation of attention or refocusing the client’s attention by:
    1. Eye gazes.
    2. Touch and Pressure.
  2. Inducing behavioral suspension or buoyant response (creating a dissociative response).
  3. Developing a rhythmic pattern during the process, which includes a reduced respiratory rate.
  4. Interrupting the subject’s habitual framework, by refocusing one’s attention on different sensations of the handshake.
A key point while engaging the subject/client, is that the individual’s internal focus is fixated on some selected stimuli involving the level of pressure of the grip. Slowing down the movement and touch during the clasp can initiate this. Also, during the initial engagement, eye gazes create another source of client fixation. By slowing down the shaking of the subject’s/client’s hand, an arm levitation response is induced or created, thus leaving the hand/arm buoyant and totally immobilized. In some cases, the subject or client may be totally immobilized. Finally, the process entails a rhythmic pattern or integration between the therapist and client. The depth depends upon several factors or conditions:
  1. Context of the interaction.
  2. Skill and rhythmic pattern of the operator.
  3. Level of receptivity and responsiveness of the client.
This is a form of an informal, indirect technique, in which the hypnotic suggestion or induction is delivered through the interaction manifested in the handshake.

The authors further recommend discovering nonverbal touch situations in everyday life, whereby one can utilize and help the subject fix and focus attention inwardly.

Conclusion
Milton H. Erickson was a brilliant therapist and hypnotist who provided different ways, including the handshake technique, to induce and create trance-like therapeutic experiences. In his handshake technique, he utilized the client’s responses and behavior to further enhance hypnotic responses and therapeutic experiences. He used his ability to notice minimal cues or define moments of responses and receptivity, and he learned to access these movements to facilitate the hypnotic handshake technique.

There are a number of applications of the handshake technique, ranging from enhancing rapport to inducing calming responses to relaxation. Upon inducing hypnotic responses, several paths can be taken. Therapeutic messages can be interspersed in the moment. Other ways include bypassing “resistant” responses, or client goal inhibitory responses, creating a window of client receptivity.
https://www.erickson-foundation.org/ericksons-handshake-technique/
 
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stringertom

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happyandbob said:
Hmm, that's a surprise I would've gone with You're The One That I Want

3. The Sound of Music - Do-Re-Mi
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That’s a surprise. I would have gone with the eponymous tune accompanying Maria in the mountain meadow. That overhead shot of Maria with that unmatched landscape behind her must have booked many a vacation tour of the Alps in the 1960s!

Both are good, as is the less spotlighted but very solid Maria (How do you handle a problem like Maria?, sung by the Mother Abbess). Hell, the whole soundtrack is bulletproof.

From one Maria to another:

4. West Side Story and Maria (with a close second Everything’s Good In America)
 
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stringertom said:
That’s a surprise. I would have gone with the eponymous tune accompanying Maria in the mountain meadow. That overhead shot of Maria with that unmatched landscape behind her must have booked many a vacation tour of the Alps in the 1960s!
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I agree, what an amazing intro song to a musical. I don't think Do-Re-Mi is the best song in that musical by a longshot, but I do think if you asked anyone to name a song from The Sound of Music that's the one everyone could name.

6. The Little Mermaid - Part of Your World
 
SystemicAnomaly

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stringertom said:
From one Maria to another:

4. West Side Story and Maria (with a close second Everything’s Good In America)
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Ya beat me to it. I would have picked Maria & Somewhere as my top choices from West Side Story -- Leonard Bernstein's tribute to the Tritone. He used the the Devil's Interval, the Tritone, in no less that 4 songs in WSS.

There are at least half a dozen iconic songs in WSS. Here are 4 of them -- but only 1 or 2 of these use the tritone. Any guesses which one(s)?




 
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5. Into the Woods (2014)

Features Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt & Meryl Streep in starring roles. It is an adaptation & a rather interesting take on various fairy tales -- combining the stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, & Jack and the Beanstalk
 
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