Changing Minds with Clinical Hypnosis: Narratives and Discourse for a New Health Care Paradigm

by Laurence Sugarman, Julie Linden, Lee Warner Brooks

Overview

This book is a scientifically current, integrative, and practical guide for understanding clinical hypnosis and its place within a new health care paradigm.

Blending four original short stories with a treatise, it alternates narrative prose with health science discourse to create a framework for embracing systemic emotional and relational elements that lie beyond diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Following the stories of four characters, the authors establish an empirically-grounded conceptualization of the mind, then demonstrate how practical applications of therapeutic hypnosis can help readers use individual and family resources in health and healing.

Clinicians will learn to improve their care by embracing emotional, relational, and narrative elements that powerfully affect health beyond diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Further, health care educators and policy makers will find inspiration that enriches professional training.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367251956
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/21/2020
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	346
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laurence Irwin Sugarman, MD, is a general pediatrician, author, and research professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. He focuses on mind-body health.

Julie Hope Linden, PhD, is a psychologist and past president of the International Society of Hypnosis. She teaches globally and specializes in the treatment of trauma.

Lee Warner Brooks, MA, JD, has written in a variety of genres, including the Shakespearean sonnet. He has recently retired from teaching writing at the University of Michigan–Dearborn/Ann Arbor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x

Foreword xi

Introduction 1

Robinson's Story 4

George with Carol 4

1 Prologue 7

Lulu's Story 17

Introduction 17

Lulu Tries to Write 17

Lulu Does Gymnastics 18

Part I Hypnosis and Changing Minds 21

2 What Was Hypnosis? What Is It Now? What Is It Becoming? 23

Robinson's Story 56

George and Robinson 56

3 How We Make Up Our Minds 61

Lyle's Story 84

Lyle's Mother 84

Lyle and the Bad Habits 84

Lyle Makes a Friend 85

4 Trance-Formation: How We Change Our Minds 87

Stevie's Story 106

Stevie Goes to Yoga Class 106

Stevie Goes to School 108

5 Hypnosis: The Healer's Art 111

Part II Developmental Imperatives 143

Lulu's Story 145

Blood 145

Lulu Goes to the Doctor 145

Sheila Talks 145

Lulu and Aliyah 147

Lulu in the Desert 148

6 Developmental Currents 150

Lyle's Story 169

Lyle in High School 169

Olivia Meets Lyle 170

Olivia and the Bullies 171

7 The Dynamics of "Resistance" and "Acceptance" 173

Robinson's Story 188

Missed Exits 188

8 Effects of Trauma and Chronic Disease 192

Lulu's Story 216

Bad News 216

Why Lulu Was Unhappy 216

Part III Attachments, Relationships, and Modeling 219

9 Trance and Attachment 221

Stevie's Story 221

Stevie's Identity 236

10 The Trance of Parenting: Parsing the Paradox 239

Lyle's Story 254

Olivia Hears Lyle's Music 254

Lyle, Olivia, and Some Heavy Stuff 255

11 Evoking Resilience with Autonomy and Uncertainty 257

Robinson's Story 267

Sweet Dreams 267

Part IV Looking Beyond 271

12 Changing Minds, Shifting Paradigms: Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model 273

Epilogue 295

Lulu 295

Lyle 295

Stevie 297

Robinson 298

Afterword 299

Appendix 305

Glossary 306

Subject Index 314

Author Index 327