We thank and acknowledge the co-sponsorship of the UC San Diego Medical Center, the Vice Chancellor - External and Business Affairs, the School of Medicine, as well as the Community Advocates for Disability Rights and Education (CADRE), which is an association of faculty, staff, and students that promotes full inclusion and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.

UC San Diego Accommodation Counseling and Consulting Services is pleased to announce November's educational event. This will be a presentation by Edwin K. Yager, Ph.D., who is a Clinical Professor from the department of Psychiatry at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Yager is a clinical psychologist whose research interests include treatments using suggestive and analytical hypnosis, as well as Subliminal Therapy, to resolve a wide variety of presenting problems.

Topic: Hypnosis: A Path to Better Health
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Geisel Library, The Seuss Room

Do you have presenting problems that you would like improve upon or make a behavior change for the better? For thousands of years, people have recognized the power of hypnosis to enhance learning, heal emotional scars, improve performance, change habits and speed the healing process.

Every experience in life has an effect on us. The effect may be miniscule or dramatic, but even if miniscule, if there are many and related experiences, the accumulated influence can be significant. Hypnosis in its essence consists of re-conditioning unconscious processes to achieve the consciously desired goal.

Why is change sometimes difficult? Most habits, beliefs and attitudes are maintained and stored in the unconscious mind - and most people are trying to change consciously. Hypnosis is direct unconscious communication.

In this presentation, Dr. Yager will talk about his specific blend of theory and practice within his own extensive clinical practice regarding the use of hypnosis to re-condition unconscious processes to accomplish the desired change. Since 1974, Dr. Yager has also taught courses in the clinical application of hypnosis for the UC San Diego School of Medicine and is an author of the book: "Foundations of Clinical Hypnosis, from Theory to Practice." If you would like to make an appointment with Dr. Yager, you may contact his office at (619) 299-4070. Additional information about Dr. Yager's work, may be viewed on his web page: www.docyager.com.

Please join us for what promises to be a very informative presentation. This event's seating capacity will fill up fast and we will be able to confirm reservations for only a limited number of people. Light refreshments will be served. There will be a prize drawing at 12:00 noon.

To reserve a seat, please register online at: http://qwl.ucsd.edu/acces_forums/index_acces.cfm

Call (858) 534-6744 for general information. Events are wheelchair accessible. To request American Sign Language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations necessary to enable your participation, please call (858) 534-6744 or send an e-mail request to Alane Reardon at areardon@ucsd.edu as soon as possible to ensure adequate time to arrange for accommodation.

You may view The Health and Wellness Lecture Series calendar and links to streaming videos at: http://haw.ucsd.edu