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Association of Stress Management and Institute of Hypnosis and Parapsychology

IHP and ASM were founded by a Peter Goodwin. Goodwin was a post RAF coach, a Jewish analyst and hypnotist, and unfortunately a disaster in terms of business both in the USA and the UK. Ending in the late 90's, the ASM and IHP associations trained therapists in Analysis, Stress Management Counselling, Clinical Hypnotherapy and health education, something we would now see as lifestyle coaching. Training included health education training which would now be seen as Life Style Coaching.

Technique

ASM graduates are trained in psychoanalysis and integrative analysis techniques. Analysis is based around Freud, Jung, Klein and business models.

In 1993 ASM claimed a better than 80% success rate in clients eyes rate for over 120,000 cases according to ASM 1993. This is based on the use of post therapy feedback, something way before it's time.

The Association of Stress Management, and the associated Institute of Hypnosis and Parapsychology have since disbanded since the lead of ASM has died.

Post the Association of Stress Management

Many therapists have continued since the death of ASM. It should be noted that ASM was the first UK organisation to submit to NVQ assessment and thus external assessment. From ASM came a number of bodies including the Society of Stress Managers, Tri-Energetics, The Association of Post Graduate Therapists in Stress Education.

Now Associations now contributing include the Society of Stress managers, the Society of Holistic Therapists and Coaches, and the fact that now we are all subject to AVR standards.

AVR Accredited voluntary registers are maintained by the Professional Standards Authority and are for healthcare workers not subject to statutory regulation.