| Description |
xxv, 368 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part one: Background and diagnosis -- 1. The historical framework -- History of therapeutic hypnosis -- Indirection -- Unconscious and conscious -- Utilization -- 2. Principles of treatment: the attitudinal framework -- Internal maps -- Best choice -- Theories are not the client -- Respect all messages -- Teach choice -- Resources lie within -- Meet clients at their model -- Flexibility -- Can't not communicate -- Reduce to component bits -- Outcomes at psychological level -- 3. The diagnostic framework -- A systems and transactional approach -- Etiology of the social map -- An experiential map -- Symptoms and the map of the social network -- Parameters of the client-system -- A case of stomach ulcer -- The case of a child abuser -- 4. Metaphor: The cognitive framework -- Paradox -- Hybrids of comparison -- Frame changes -- Perceptual changes -- Behavioral changes -- Affect changes -- Drama in metaphor -- Dramatic theme and therapeutic outcomes -- Metaphoric treatment: transcript -- Transcript of Erickson's embedded metaphor -- Ideomotor response and client feedback -- Symbols and concepts in the dramas -- Part two: Induction and resources -- 5. Induction and indirection: the interpersonal framework -- Safeguards and ill effects -- Attitude and confidence -- Social foundations of hypnotic language -- Conscious/ unconscious dissociation -- The flow of induction -- Delivery -- The complete induction -- Varieties of indirect suggestion -- Indirect suggestion transcript -- 6. The resource and trance phenomena framework -- Case transcript and analysis -- Strategic use of trance phenomena -- Trance phenomena in nonhypnotic therapies -- Part three: Multiple embedded metaphor -- 7. The multiple embedded metaphor framework -- Induction -- Matching metaphor -- Metaphors to retrieve resources -- Direct work on core issue -- Linking resources to social network -- Ending matching metaphor -- Reorienting to waking state -- Case examples -- A case of obesity and immature personality -- A case of pelvic pain -- A case of acute hysterical anxiety -- 8. Self-image thinking: the anticipation framework -- Erickson's emphasis on self-image -- Resolution of unconscious emotional conflict -- Self-image thinking -- Direct work patterns -- 9. The force of closure -- Terminating therapy -- Mountains and elephants. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Brunner/Mazeo, c1983. With new introd. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 355-359) and index. |
| Subject |
Hypnotism -- Therapeutic use.
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Erickson, Milton H.
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| Added Author |
Lankton, Carol H., 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781845901219 |
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1845901215 |
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