Main description:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Robinson's Story

George with Carol

Chapter One: Prologue

Lulu's 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?

Robinson's Story:

George and Robinson

Chapter Three: How We Make Up Our Minds

Lyle's Story:

Lyle's Mother

Lyle and the Bad Habits

Lyle Makes a Friend

Chapter Four: Trance-Formation: How We Change Our Minds

Stevie's Story:

Stevie Goes to Yoga Class

Stevie Goes to School

Chapter Five: Hypnosis: The Healer's Art

Part II: Developmental Imperatives

Lulu's Story:

Blood

Lulu Goes to the Doctor

Sheila Talks

Lulu and Aliyah

Lulu in the Desert

Chapter Six: Developmental Currents

Lyle's Story:

Lyle in High School

Olivia Meets Lyle

Olivia and the Bullies

Chapter Seven: The Dynamics of "Resistance" and "Acceptance"

Robinson's Story:

Missed Exits

Chapter Eight: Effects of Trauma and Chronic Disease

Lulu's Story:

Bad News

Why Lulu Was Unhappy

Part III: Attachment, Relationships, and Modeling

Chapter Nine: Trance and Attachment

Stevie's Story:

Stevie's Identity

Chapter Ten: The Trance of Parenting: Parsing the Paradox

Lyle's Story:

Olivia Hears Lyle's Music

Lyly, Olivia, and Some Heavy Stuff

Chapter Eleven: Evoking Resilience with Autonomy and Uncertainty

Robinson's Story:

Sweet Dreams

Part IV: Looking Beyond

Chapter Twelve: Changing Minds, Shifting Paradigms: Beyond the Biopsychosocial Model

Epilogue

Lulu

Lyle

Stevie

Robinson

Afterword

Appendix

Glossary

Subject Index

Author Index