Hoarding and Grief. Steve Andreas demonstrates using the “compulsion blowout” method developed by Richard Bandler to resolve a woman’s long-term compulsion to hoard things. This demonstration is particularly interesting because the stimulus for hoarding was tactile, rather than visual. Since the compulsion to hoard is often a consequence of significant personal losses, Steve follows this by guiding the client through the Resolving Grief process developed by Steve and Connirae.
Recorded at the Milton Erickson Brief Therapy Conference in 1996. (The compulsion blowout method is taught in detail in Change Your Mind—and Keep the Change ch. 5, and the Resolving Grief process is taught in Heart of the Mind, ch.11.)
57-minute DVD
"I just finished doing the compulsion blowout, swish, and state management (teaching him how to assemble a group of pleasant, self-affirming experiences, and how to access this at will) with a guy at a drug treatment center. When we were done, he just sat there with a fresh smile every minute or two, interspersed with expressions of delight and amazement. Nothing unique about this; it's just that it came to mind because it happened just now."
—Stu Baxter, an 82-year-young pastor in the midwest.
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