Claude Virot, MD is a medical psychiatrist and trainer as well as director at the Emergences Institute. Since the beginning of his career he was interested in hypnosis and short-term therapies. In 1994 he founded the Milton H. Erickson Institute Rennes-Bretagne. Resolute to advance the international development of hypnosis, with the years he becomes president and international relations director of the French-Speaking Confederation of Hypnosis and Short-Term Therapies, member of the office team of the European Society of Hypnosis and of the International Society for Hypnosis (ISH) of which he became president in 2015. In 2009, Claude Virot receives the Jay Haley Early Career prize from ISH for having dedicated his career to the development of hypnosis. In the same year, he receives the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement award from the Milton H. Erickson Institute California.

He was involved in the organization of several congresses in France. Claude Virot was also director of the 20th World Congress of Medical & Clinical Hypnosis 2015 which took place in Paris and attracted 2500 participants

• President of ISH (International Hypnosis Society) 2015-2018
• Psychiatrist since 1988
• Director of EMERGENCES since 2001: Institute of Research and Training in Hypnosis and Therapeutic Communication: www.hypnoses.com
• Ericksonian hypnosis training in Paris in 1986 at the Milton H. Erickson Institute in Paris.
• Medical thesis: Hypnosis, Strategy and Psychotherapy (1988)
• ISH Award 2009: Jay Haley Early Career for Innovative Contributions development of hypnosis
• 2009: Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award: Milton Erickson Institute of California (led by Ernest Rossi).
• Founder of the Milton H Erickson Institute in Rennes Bretagne
• Organizer of several hypnosis congresses
• Speaker at several international conferences
• Publication of articles (especially on depression)
• Last book: Hypnosis, acute pain and anesthesia. Arnette 2009. (co-written with Dr. Franck Bernard)