Neil French, the Hypnotherapy Teacher, at one time served in the British Armed Forces in the Royal Military Police, and his time in Kenya, during it's struggle for independence, led to his later interest in 'matters psychological'. Then Neil joined the civil Police where he served for seven years; three/four of which were as a Detective Officer on the Wirral and Merseyside. Not, in his words, "a job for orphans or widows". He attended a University Course on "Forensic Criminology" where, again to quote Neil, he 'learnt very little', except for the fact that the professor teaching the Course was 'ape' on the subject of Hypnosis, and convinced most police students (especially Neil French) that witness interviewing under hypnosis would yield far more detailed results. A few years later and it all gelled together as Neil undertook a local authority course in psychology, and then further training with the National Council of Psychotherapists. Add that to a mountain of reading on the subject and a Hypnotherapist was born in circa 1974. One memory he retained from Kenya, of a tribal initiation ceremony, led him to later create "the blow-away technique" for the treatment of juveniles. From his later Training, Neil French realised that the chanting, the smoking, the dancing, within the ceremony, had all created 'hypnosis' and it was not necessary to verbalise in order to release "devils of the mind". In a juvenile approaching puberty, merely to bring the repressed emotion to mind, and then to "expel" without verbalising, on the suggestion of the therapist, would suffice. Neil French had the awesome experience of meeting some twenty years later, at the University of Leicester where he was lecturing, the very first person he had used the technique upon, only to find that his onetime subject (now a SRN) was also lecturing on ...... you guessed it !Neil French, the Hypnotherapy Teacher, at one time served in the British Armed Forces in the Royal Military Police, and his time in Kenya, during it's struggle for independence, led to his later interest in 'matters psychological'. Then Neil joined the civil Police where he served for seven years; three/four of which were as a Detective Officer on the Wirral and Merseyside. Not, in his words, "a job for orphans or widows". He attended a University Course on "Forensic Criminology" where, again to quote Neil, he 'learnt very little', except for the fact that the professor teaching the Course was 'ape' on the subject of Hypnosis, and convinced most police students (especially Neil French) that witness interviewing under hypnosis would yield far more detailed results. A few years later and it all gelled together as Neil undertook a local authority course in psychology, and then further training with the National Council of Psychotherapists. Add that to a mountain of reading on the subject and a Hypnotherapist was born in circa 1974. One memory he retained from Kenya, of a tribal initiation ceremony, led him to later create "the blow-away technique" for the treatment of juveniles. From his later Training, Neil French realised that the chanting, the smoking, the dancing, within the ceremony, had all created 'hypnosis' and it was not necessary to verbalise in order to release "devils of the mind", in a juvenile approaching puberty. Merely to bring the repressed emotion to mind, and then to "expel" without verbalising, on the suggestion of the therapist, would suffice. Neil French had the awesome experience of meeting some twenty years later, at the University of Leicester where he was lecturing, the very first person he had used the technique upon, only to find that his onetime subject (now a SRN) was also lecturing on ...... you guessed it ! the Blow-away technique for adolescents the Blow-away technique for adolescents
