Martin Wall

President Elect of ESH, qualified at University College Hospital London as a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1972 and is also Chair of the Committee on Educational Programs in Europe. Martin is Past President: Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, and presently Chair of Training Committee and a Council member. He currently teaches at The Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry.

European Hypnosis - The State we are in

As I take on the role of President of ESH this is a view on where we are, and some thoughts on where we might wish to go.

My title plays on the multiplicity of meanings that the word ‘state’ has in English, a multiplicity that reflects in many ways the diversity of the usage and perception of hypnosis that operates throughout Europe. And it is this wide diaspora that I feel is both our strength and our challenge.

Within this lecture I will reflect on our past, informed by my experience of chairing the Committee for Educational programmes in Europe for the last six years, and I will then present a three-year manifesto for the future. A future that will I hope engage and enthuse all of our fourteen thousand member clinicians, some of whom I suspect are not even aware of their membership of this our precious community.