Catherine Walters

Ronald A. Havens

In this innovative and informative revision of their classic text, Havens and Walters provide a clear description of the hypnotic experience and a compelling explanation of its therapeutic potential within the clinical setting. The poetic and metaphorical communication patterns integrated into this hypnotic technique are designed to create therapeutic change efficiently and effectively while providing a healing relationship within which deeper personal meanings may be explored. Verbatim sample transcripts of various induction and therapeutic suggestion procedures offer an exhaustive range of possible applications. This revised edition incorporates recent research and writings on the role of unconscious processes, wellness, and positive psychology along with new metaphor scripts for problems and disorders not included in the first edition. It also includes specific guidelines for creating one's own hypnotherapeutic inductions and metaphors, as well as a detailed explanation of the therapeuticallyefficient and effective Diagnostic Trance process.

A Neo-Ericksonian Approach to Persuasive Healing

Hypnotherapy Scripts

Havens explores the hypnotic pathways that can lead to an alternate experiential world. This world of inner peace and happiness can be created by even a momentary immersion in the unknown potentials that lie just beneath the surface of everyones conscious awareness. It is a world that soothes the soul, brings contentment, and heals wounded spirits.

Achieving Altered States, Mystical Experiences, and Spiritual Enlightenment

Self Hypnosis for Cosmic Consciousness

This volume sets forth a holistic application of hypnosis that, although grounded in Ericksonian health techniques, embraces the positive paradigms of wellness, tranquility, and optimal performance. The primary focus is on enhancing mental and physical wellbeing by cultivating the healthy parts of the psyche and soma - a more beneficial therapeutic goal, in the authors' view, than the traditional emphasis on diagnosing and treating pathology.; The authors demonstrate why and how hypnotherapy is a particularly effective means of enhancing wellbeing and present a Variety Of Hypnotherapeutic Techniques For Promoting Health, Harmony, And peak mental and physical performance. The book includes a chapter on writing your own hypnosis scripts.

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