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.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Robinsons Story
George with Carol
Chapter One: Prologue
Lulus Story:
Introduction
Lulu Tries to Write
Lulu Does Gymnastics
Part I: Hypnosis and Changing Minds
Chapter Two: What Was Hypnosis? What is it Now? What is it Becoming?
Robinsons Story:
George and Robinson
Chapter Three: How We Make Up Our Minds
Lyles Story:
Lyles Mother
Lyle and the Bad Habits
Lyle Makes a Friend
Chapter Four: Trance-Formation: HlSą