Handbook Of Hypnotic Phenomena In Psychotherapy / Edition 1

by John H. Edgette, Janet Sasson Edgette

Overview

Despite their clinical utility, hypnotic phenomena are vastly underutilized by therapists in their work with patients. Whether this is due to uncertainty about how to use specific techniques constructively or how to elicit particular phenomena, or anxiety about not being able to obtain a desired result, this volume will guide hypnotherapists toward higher levels of clinical expertise. By describing varied hypnotic phenomena and how they can be used as vehicles of intervention, The Phenomenon of Ericksonian Hypnosis takes the therapist beyond these fundamental applications toward a broader, more sophisticated scope of practice. This immensely readable book addresses the selection, eliciting, and therapeutic use of hypnotic phenomena that are natural outgrowths of trance. It offers step-by-step instruction on eliciting age progression, hypnotic dreaming, hypnotic deafness, anethesia, negative and positive hallucination, hypermnesia, catalepsy, and other hypnotic phenomena. The book includes specific instruction on how to use the phenomena manifested in trance to provide more effective treatment. Numerous case examples vividly illustrate intervention with anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, dissociative disorders, depression, marital and family problems, sports and creative performance, pain, hypersensitivity to sound, psychotic symptomatology, and other conditions. The Phenomenon of Ericksonian Hypnosis will be used by therapists as a valuable clinical tool to expand their conceptualizations of hypnosis, and thus enable them to offer a wider repertoire of skills with which they can confidently treat clients.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138869349
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/16/2015
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Part 1 PART I Preludes; Chapter 1 AN OVERVIEW OF ERICKSONIAN HYPNOSIS; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 WHAT ARE HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA?; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 WITH A BUFFET SPREAD LIKE THAT, HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO EAT?: SELECTING APPROPRIATE HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA; Part 2 Part II Hypnotic Phenomena for Intervention; Section A Memory Functions; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 AMNESIA; Chapter 5 Chapter 5 HYPERMNESIA; Chapter 6 Chapter 6 POSTHYPNOTIC SUGGESTION; Section B Toying with Time; Chapter 7 Chapter 7 TIME DISTORTION: CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION; Chapter 8 Chapter 8 AGE REGRESSION; Chapter 9 Chapter 9 FUTURE PROGRESSION; Section C Duality of Reality; Chapter 10 Chapter 10 DISSOCIATION; Chapter 11 Chapter 11 HYPNOTIC DREAMING AND DAYDREAMING; Section D Dissociated Movement; Chapter 12 Chapter 12 CATALEPSY; Chapter 13 Chapter 13 ARM LEVITATION (IDEOMOTOR MOVEMENT); Chapter 14 Chapter 14 AUTOMATIC WRITING AND DRAWING; Section E Modifying Perception; Chapter 15 Chapter 15 ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA; Chapter 16 Chapter 16 HYPERESTHESIA; Chapter 17 Chapter 17 ON EXPERIENCING WHAT IS NOT THERE: POSITIVE THERAPEUTIC HALLUCINATION; Chapter 18 Chapter 18 ON NOT EXPERIENCING WHAT IS THERE: NEGATIVE THERAPEUTIC HALLUCINATION; Part 3 PART III Apart from Intervention: Other Uses for Hypnotic Phenomena; Chapter 19 Chapter 19 HYPNOTIC PHENOMENA FOR INDUCTION, RATIFICATION, AND DEEPENING; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX;