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Hypnosis in Clinical Practice
This book is aimed at helping both newly trained and experienced mental health professionals become comfortable and adept in using hypnosis in their clinical practice. Despite dramatic evidence of the effectiveness of hypnosis and its growing acceptance, only a small percentage of psychotherapists employ their hypnotherapy training in their practices. This under-use of hypnosis is due to exaggerated misconceptions about its power and the resultant performance anxiety therapists experience after their training. This text is designed to address therapist performance anxiety surrounding the use of hypnosis by exploring the myths surrounding its power and therapeutic potential. The integration of a straightforward systematic hypnotic approach into therapeutic practice has value both in assessment and treatment. Using clinical anecdotes and personal experience, the authors of Hypnosis in Clinical Practice explain induction style and trance work in a way that is fundamental and highly accessible.
188 pages, Hardcover
First published February 27, 2004
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October 5, 2015
This is an excellent book for hypnotherapists and psychotherapists who use hypnosis. While it's centered from the hypnosis within more normative psychotherapeutic methodologies perspective, anyone who deals with hypnotic phenomena can benefit from this book. It takes an Ericksonian methodology, but doesn't really focus on the words, phrases, patterns stuff AT ALL! Which is awesome because there are 8 trillion books on that subject.
Instead, the reason you'd want to read this book is that there is a tremendous focus on reading clients and treating them within the framework of their symptomatology. The text goes into good detail about utilizing a client's naturally occurring trance phenomena and what remedies need to coincide with those phenomena. For instance, clients with traumas often are dissociative, meaning that they are able to slip into deep trance phenomena around disassociation, physical and emotional anesthesia, catalepsy, time distortion (particularly time progression and temporal stagnation), etc. These "talents" can be used as therapeutic interventions as well as avenues into a client's world AND ways to gauge what treatments are needed (i.e. how to use the "talents" to facilitate movement toward more healthy cognitions, emotions, and behaviors).
Instead, the reason you'd want to read this book is that there is a tremendous focus on reading clients and treating them within the framework of their symptomatology. The text goes into good detail about utilizing a client's naturally occurring trance phenomena and what remedies need to coincide with those phenomena. For instance, clients with traumas often are dissociative, meaning that they are able to slip into deep trance phenomena around disassociation, physical and emotional anesthesia, catalepsy, time distortion (particularly time progression and temporal stagnation), etc. These "talents" can be used as therapeutic interventions as well as avenues into a client's world AND ways to gauge what treatments are needed (i.e. how to use the "talents" to facilitate movement toward more healthy cognitions, emotions, and behaviors).
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