Author Biography
Dr. Donald W. Ebrahim LRCP (Eng.) MRCS (Lond.) After qualifying from Sheffield University Medical School in 1952, he held hospital posts in Paediatrics and Orthopaedics. A brief spell of service in the Royal Army Medical Corps was followed by general practice in Coventry. As a single handed G.P. for twenty five years, he used hypnosis for a wide variety of problems. He was also in charge of a school for emotionally disturbed children during this time, developing innovatory techniques in group hypnosis settings. Since 1971 he has lectured for the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis. In 1976 the Swedish Society for Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis invited him to demonstrate his techniques with children. Ever since, his workshops and lectures have formed part of their three-year training programme in hypnosis for psychiatrists and psychologists. In 1981 the BBC. invited him to take part in their television documentary Hypnosis and Healing and again in 1984 in Alternative Medicine . In June 1982 he completed 350 hours training in short-term Psychoanalytic psychotherapy under the personal supervision of Prof. Lewis Wolberg M.D. and Prof. Arlene Wolberg Ph. D. of the Postgraduate Centre for Mental Health, University of New York. Since then he has been in full-time private practice in psychotherapy. He was co-chairperson with Gordon Ambrose, Gail Gardner and Karen Olness in the Paediatric workshop at the 9th International Congress in Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine held in Glasgow in 1983, and was workshop chairperson at the 2nd, 3rd, and the 6th European congresses in subsequent years. In 1986 he was invited to be the keynote speaker on hypnosis at the Canada West Medical Congress, and in the same year he obtained a Master Practitioner's Certificate in Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Since then he has been conducting NLP seminars in Scandinavia and the U.K. with particular emphasis on its application in psychotherapy and education. He has published several articles on hypnosis, its neurological aspects and clinical applications; and NLP. In 1988 he evolved a new model of Personality Disorder - Traumatic Separation Theory and has been teaching its application in short-term dynamic psychotherapy, in Sweden, Denmark and South Africa. On 23 September 1994 in Gotenburg Sweden, he was awarded The Annie Fasth Foundation Prize for his development of Traumatic Separation Theory and researching its clinical applications. He is a member of the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis; and has been awarded honorary memberships of the Swedish Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis, and the Danish Society of Medical Hypnosis in recognition of his teaching. And the South African Society of Clinical Hypnosis has presented him with their Certificate of Tribute.
