Casebook of clinical hypnosis.

when Is Hypnosis Brought Into Play With Various Theoretical And Clinical Approaches To Psychotherapy? What Does A Hypnotherapist Actually Do On A Case-by-case And A Session-by-session Basis? What Specific Strategies Can Be Implemented? What Are The Scope And Nature Of The Challenges That Hypnotherapists And Their Clients Face? What Interpersonal Issues Emerge In Hypnotherapeutic Treatment? The Editors Of The Casebook Of Clinical Hypnosis Have Marshaled An Impressive Group Of Eminent Hypnotherapists To Consider These Issues And To Illustrate Them With Interesting And Memorable Cases From Their Own Experience. Each Chapter Is Devoted To The Explication Of Clinical Techniques And Strategies, And Many Chapters Contain Transcripts Of Actual Sessions And Suggestions Administered, Thus Providing Readers With A Window Onto The World Of Clinicians' Best Hypnotherapeutic Work With Their Clients. Contributing Therapists Offer The Presenting Background And Assessment Information Of A Client, The Treatment Rationale, The Role Of Hypnosis Within The Treatment, Outcome And Follow-up Data, And Concluding Commentary. Such Client Problems As Eating Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, Personality Disorders, Enuresis, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dysmennorhea, Nicotine Dependence, Attentional Deficit Disorder, And The Aftereffects Of Sexual Abuse And Rape Are Addressed. One Of The Unique Features Of The Casebook Is A Clinical Case Conference That Illustrates How Experts From Very Different Traditions Of Clinical Hypnotherapy Conceptualize And Treat A Person With Problems In Living. The Section Presents A Challenging Case Followed By Commentaries Of Well-known Clinicians Who Represent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Rational-emotive Behavior Therapy, Multimodal Therapy, And Ericksonian Hypnosis. This Book, A Companion To The Now-indispensable Handbook Of Clinical Hypnosis, Will Be Useful To Both The Novice Hypnotherapist And Seasoned Clinician. Anyone Who Wishes To Learn About Clinical Hypnosis And Expand Their Repertoire Of Clinical Interventions Will Have Much To Gain From The Case Explorations Contained In This Volume. booknews veteran Hypnotherapists Draw From Some Of Their Memorable Cases To Explore Such Issues As When Hypnosis Should Be Integrated With Other Theoretical And Clinical Approaches To Psychotherapy, What A Hypnotherapist Actually Does On A Case-by-case And Session-by- Session Basis, Specific Strategies, The Scope And Nature Of The Challenges Faced By Therapists And Their Clients, And Interpersonal Issues That Emerge In Treatment. Annotation C. By Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. When is hypnosis brought into play with various theoretical and clinical approaches to psychotheraphy? What does a hypnotherapist actually do on a case-by-case and a session-by-session basis? What specific strategies can be implemented? What are the scope and nature of the challenges that hypnotherapists and their clients face? What interpersonal issues emerge in hypnotherapeutic treatment? The editors of the Casebook of Clinical Hypnosis have marshaled an impressive group of eminent hypnotherapists to consider these issues and to illustrate them with interesting and memorable cases from their own experience. Each chapter is devoted to the explication of clinical techniques and strategies, and many chapters contain transcripts of actual sessions and suggestions administered, thus providing readers with a window onto the world of clinicians' best hypnotherapeutic work with their clients. Contributing therapists offer the presenting background and assessment information of a client, the treatment rationale, the role of hypnosis within the treatment, outcome and follow-up data, and concluding commentary. Such client problems as eating disorders, depression, anxiety, personality disorders, enuresis, dissociative identity disorder, dysmenorrhea, nicotine dependence, attentional deficit disorder, and the aftereffects of sexual abuse and rape are addressed. "This book is the sequel to our Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis, in which we attempted to provide practitioners, researchers, and students with a survey of modem clinical hypnosis. Our goal was to present a diversity of viewpoints relevant to the science and practice of clinical hypnosis. We felt that such a book was necessary, given the explosion of interest in the scientific and clinical foundations of hypnosis that has occurred over the past decade or so--a trend legitimized by evidence that hypnosis can increase the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral treatments of a variety of disorders (Kirsch, Montgomery, & Sapirstein, 1995)"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)