Martin Shirran
| Martin Shirran | |
|---|---|
 Martin_Shirran.jpg | |
| Born | April 21, 1952 Kensal Green, London |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | Psychotherapist, author |
| Known for | Developing Gastric Mind Band therapy |
| Notable work | Pause Button Therapy (2012), Gastric Mind Band (2013) |
| Twitter= | |
Martin Shirran (born 21 April 1952, in Kensal Green, London) is a British psychotherapist and author, best known for development of Gastric Mind Band (GMB) therapy for weight loss.
Education and career[edit]
Shirran attended Bennett's End School in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, followed by Great Yarmouth College of Further Education, where he undertook a City and Guilds course in Radio, Television and Electromechanics.
He first entered the workforce as an electrical engineer, but soon moved into sales and marketing, where a training about psychology in sales fascinated him. Shirran became an avid reader on the subject. After a close friend visited a hypnotherapist in order to quit smoking, he was intrigued and the following week he undertook the treatment himself. While it was not successful, hypnotherapy became a lifetime interest.
Shirran and his wife Marion moved to Southern Spain in 2001. In 2004 Shirran completed a diploma course in hypnotherapy with the Robert Shields College; he was subsequently admitted to the register of both the British Institute of Hypnotherapy and the American Board of Hypnotherapy.[1]
After completing his hypnotherapy course he and his wife established the Elite Clinic in Marbella, Spain,[2] also in 2004. After a client Martin helped quit smoking asked him whether it would be possible to convince him he had a gastric band fitted,[2] Shirran began developing a psychological approach to treating obesity, which he named Gastric Mind Band therapy (GMB).[3][2] They initially experimented with hypnotherapy as a sole treatment protocol but, like others, found its effects both limiting and short-lived. After many trials, they developed an approach that used multiple therapies simultaneously,[3] focusing on the empirically validated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as the core approach whilst also employing other therapies that reinforced each other. "An intense four-day program...culminates in the gastric-band hypnosis session. 'We create smells in the room and have background noises, because the more senses that are involved in the whole process, the stronger the suggestion is,'" Marion Shirran told ABC News in an interview. "It's got to come from the person themselves.'"[4] Patients undergoing GMB report they visualize their stomach to be approximately the size of a golf ball, dramatically curbing their appetite, causing them to eat less and shed excess weight over time.[5][6] Once patients hit their target weight they undergo more therapy to have their virtual gastric band "removed," and will be given a maintenance programme that will allow them to eat without regaining the weight.[6]
In 2006, after attending a course at the School of Psychology at Birmingham University,[7] Shirran was awarded a primary certificate in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy from the Albert Ellis Institute in New York.
Although Martin Shirran reported treating over 400 patients with CMB therapy between 2006 and 2010, with a success rate over 74 percent[4][7] the Shirrans believed that an additional intervention was required to deliver the permanent results the clients desired. They developed a new approach again based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; dubbed Pause Button Therapy (PBT), it seeks to empower people, "allowing them to press pause, freeze time and consider the consequences of the actions they are about to take before making a more informed choice."[8] The technique can be learned and employed from reading materials; psychotherapy is not the only way one can learn it.[9] PBT was developed for weight loss, but was later trialled in UK schools to help children overcome behavior problems. Later Pause Button Therapy was incorporated into another treatment protocol called TactileCBT, developed with assistance from clinical psychologist Sarah Clarke. TactileCBT was an outgrowth of PBT developed to address a wider range of maladaptive behaviors and thinking patterns not addressed by PBT. At their clinic the Shirrans continue to employ TactileCBT in the treatment of depression, anxiety and general addictions.
Shirran became a member of the International Hypnosis Research Institute in 2010 and was registered with the UK's Complementary Natural Healthcare Council when it was officially established the following year. In 2011 Shirran signed an International two-book publishing contract with Hay House;[1] Pause Button Therapy was published in November 2012[9] and Gastric Mind Band in 2013.[1]
After reading The Time Paradox by psychologist and Stanford University professor emeritus Philip Zimbardo, Shirran believed there was a similarity between Pause Button Therapy and Zimbardo's Time Perspective theory, and corresponded with him. Shirran then produced a paper co-authored with health psychologist Theano Kalavana on the GMB weight loss approach, which they presented at Zimbardo's 1st International Time Perspective Conference at Coimbra University, Portugal in 2012. It was at this conference that Shirran shared his Pause Button Therapy book with Zimbardo, who wrote the foreword to the second edition.
Martin Shirran, Marion Shirran, and Sarah Clarke co-presented an updated symposium on TactileCBT at the 2nd International Time Perspective Conference at Warsaw University, Poland in 2014.[10]
In 2015 Martin Shirran, Marion Shirran, and Fiona Graham co-authored and self-published the self-help weight loss book Cruise Yourself Slim.
In addition to undertaking the training of interested therapists in their approach, the Shirrans continue to treat a small number of private clients each month at their clinic in Spain.
Works[edit]
- Shirrans’ Solution: The Gastric Mind Band – ISBN 978 1 4520 5251 9 – AuthorHouse, 2010
- Pause Button Therapy – ISBN 9781781800485 - Hay House, 2012
- Gastric Mind Band – ISBN 978 1 78180 053 9 – Hay House, 2013
- Cruise Yourself Slim – Shirran, 2016
Personal life[edit]
Following his love of flying and sailing Shirran gained his Private Pilots licence at Sywell School of Flying Northampton in 1988. He completed the training for his RYA Yacht Masters licence in 1997.
Shirran married his wife Marion on March 8, 2001 in Gibraltar; they now live in Mijas Costa in Southern Spain.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Us". eliteclinics.com. Elite Clinics. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Glover, Eleanor & Salkeld, Luke (21 May 2009). "I'm on the hypno-diet: Wife loses four stone after therapist convinces her she's got a gastric band". www.dailymail.co.uk. DailyMailOnline. Retrieved 8 July 2016.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hypno-sized". Hello Magazine. 15 Nov 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Trachtenberg, Thea & Bodow, Brandon (23 September 2010). 'Gastric Mind Band': Hypnotic Weight Loss (Television production). ABC News.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ↑ Trent, Les (30 September 2010). "Woman Claims Hypnotic Gastric Bypass Works". www.insideedition.com. Inside Edition. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Connell, Claudia (3 July 2009). "Weight off my mind: I was hypnotised into thinking I'd had a gastric band fitted... and was astonished by the results". www.dailymail.co.uk. DailyMailOnline. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Vine, Sarah (12 February 2011). "Is the gastric mind band the answer to losing weight?". London. The Times.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "Pause Button Therapy". pausebuttontherapy.com. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lewis, Perri (November 2012). "Press pause!". Psychologies: 84–85.
- ↑ "Book of Abstracts". 2nd International Conference on Time Perspective. 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
This article "Martin Shirran" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
