Hypnotherapy for Health, Harmony, and Peak Performance: Expanding the Goals of Psychotherapy / Edition 1

by Catherine Walters, Ronald A. Havens, Walters Catheri

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876306901
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/28/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

Offers a conceptual foundation for using trance to improve mental and physical health, followed by instructions on how to do so. Includes verbatim scripts to demonstrate trance induction and comes with an audiotape demonstrating the methods. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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