Hypnotherapy: A Client-Centered Approach

by Mary Lee LaBay, Patti McCormick (Foreword by)

Overview

Explores various clinical techniques used to help patients overcome fear, chronic pain, and addiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589800526
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	01/31/2003
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

MARY LEE LaBAY is a graduate of the Ohio Academy of Holistic Health and a certified instructor of hypnotherapy. She is the founding president of the Lake Washington chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists and founder of Awareness Engineering.


Patti McCormick is the founder and president of the Ohio Academy of Holistic Health.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Introduction	11
Part I	The Clinical Practice
Chapter 1	Understanding Hypnosis	27
Chapter 2	Levels of Trance	32
Chapter 3	Imagination	36
Chapter 4	The Intake Interview	39
Chapter 5	The Office Atmosphere	44
Chapter 6	Interviewing the Client	47
Chapter 7	Ingredients of Successful Hypnotherapy	51
Chapter 8	Therapeutic Communication	59
Chapter 9	What Clients Communicate	64
Chapter 10	Marketing Your Business	74
Part II	Techniques of Hypnosis
Chapter 11	Fundamentals of Hypnotizing a Client	79
Chapter 12	Suggestibility Tests	86
Chapter 13	Techniques of Hypnotic Communication	90
Chapter 14	Induction Techniques	96
Chapter 15	Techniques for Deepening the Trance	107
Chapter 16	Completing the Hypnosis Session	115
Chapter 17	Submodalities	118
Chapter 18	Guided Imagery, Suggestions, and Metaphor	121
Chapter 19	Reverse Metaphor	127
Chapter 20	Regression Therapy	132
Chapter 21	Secondary Gains	137
Chapter 22	Parts Therapy	141
Chapter 23	Object Imagery	148
Chapter 24	Ideosensory and Ideomotor Signals	154
Chapter 25	Inner Child Work	159
Chapter 26	Personality Part Retrieval	164
Chapter 27	Chair Therapy	166
Chapter 28	Outcome-Based Therapies	170
Chapter 29	Reframing	179
Chapter 30	Dissociation	184
Chapter 31	Desensitization	189
Chapter 32	The Swish	192
Chapter 33	Anchors	196
Chapter 34	The Empowerment Symbol	202
Chapter 35	The Circle of Excellence	205
Chapter 36	Using a Role Model	208
Chapter 37	Time Line Therapies	210
Part III	Selected Case Studies
Chapter 38	Case #1: Jeanette	217
Chapter 39	Case #2: Tanya	223
Chapter 40	Case #3: Maria	240
Chapter 41	Case #4: Jolene	256
Chapter 42	Case #5: Joseph	259
Chapter 43	Case #6: Lucille	266
Chapter 44	Case #7: John	274
Chapter 45	Case #8: Roberta	279
Chapter 46	Case #9: Frank	289
	Bibliography	299
	Index	301