Training in clinical hypnosis, a historical perspective: the Montana experience

When Dr. D. Corydon Hammond invited me to write a paper for this symposium on hypnosis training, it was obvious that its greatest contribution could be a description of the rather intensive program developed over 2 decades at the University of Montana. However, it became apparent that the Montana program was only part of some 50 years experience developing professional education in hypnosis, psychotherapy, and graduate training in general. At the risk of being accused of immodesty I must therefore write much of this contribution in the first person.