The practitioner's guide to mirroring hands

by Hill, Ernest L. Rossi

This book dedicated to Ernest Rossi's Mirroring Hands therapeutic process. Mirroring Hands is a technique that emerged from Rossi's studies and experiences with Milton H. Erickson. It has its origins in hypnosis, but it is an effective process for a wide range of mental health professionals who may not include or intend to include hypnosis in their practice. This book is intended to establish the Mirroring Hands process as a therapy for all practitioners. Rossi himself has described the technique as 'hypnosis without the hypnosis'.
Mirroring Hands seeks to connect the client and the therapist to the natural flow, cycles and self-organising emergence that shift the client toward beneficial change. The authors show how the technique enables clients to unlock their problem solving and mindbody healing capacities and arrive at resolution in ways that many other therapies might not. The overall effect is to create an engaged connection and integration with the client's natural, best self.

Genres: Psychology

304 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2017

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hill and Rossi introduce us to a range of techniques building from the work of Milton Erickson. These techniques use the felt sense to tap into implicit knowledge to solve problems and achieve regulation and self soothing. The implications of this work are meaningful and their ideas on healing are relevant. I found the dialogue between Hill and Rossi somewhat distracting and the quantum discussions to be abstract and unhelpful. Not as helpful a book as I was hoping for.

[Nick B · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful melding of Focusing oriented psychotherapy with the pendulation of somatic experiencing, the bilateral focus of EMDR, the dual attunement of brainspotting, and the externalization of polarization of Gestalt and other parts-oriented therapies. I also was delighted to find the shape of the protocol (way too formal of a word to use, I know) to be similar to Coherence Therapy!

[Barbara Carder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Key word: practitioner. Practical, useful constructs to approach creating therapeutic conditions: curiosity undergirded by seeking, playing, caring, loving and without which fear and depredation. One goes TOWARD, the other AWAY. So simple! Read this book if you are interested in the role tai chi/qigoing play in creating the therapeutic environment.

[Yanko Yankov · Rating 5 out of 5]

interesting book. A different way to explain and apply self healing with hypnosis.

[James Carter]

Interesting.