Inner Strengths
Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening
- 376 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Inner Strengths is the first book to meet the need for a comprehensive treatment of approaches to ego-strengthening in psychotherapy. It provides a historical breakthrough in the history of ego-strengthening education, and explores contemporary psychodynamic, object relations, self-psychology, ego state, and transpersonal theoretical models for understanding how and why ego-strengthening occurs.
Written by two experienced psychotherapists, who were active in developing the newer, projective-evocative ego-strengthening techniques, this book emphasizes the utilization of patients' inner resources. They survey the history of ego-strengthening efforts and show how that which has been considered intrinsically hypnotic connects with the great traditions of psychotherapy. Additionally, they offer step-by-step instructions for a diversity of ego-strengthening methods that can be used for patient self-care, internal boundary formation, and personality maturation in a wide range of clinical conditions. Their discussion of the fundamental concepts of ego-strengthening draws on their theoretical and clinical explorations of dynamic internal resources such as memory, strength, wisdom, self-soothing, and love.
Throughout the book, theory is balanced by an unusual richness of extended clinical examples and a wide variety of practical ego-strengthening scripts. This classic edition is essential reading for seasoned clinicians of hypnosis and beginners alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword to the Classic Edition
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Ego-Strengthening: The Therapeutic Tradition
- 2 Ego-Strengthening: The Classical Hypnotic Tradition
- 3 Ego-Strengthening: The Ericksonian Tradition
- 4 The Ego-State Model in Hypnotic and Nonhypnotic Psychotherapy
- 5 The Utilization of Time as a Vehicle for Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening
- 6 The Ego: Its Composition
- 7 Internal Self-Soothing and the Development of the Self
- 8 Inner Love: Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening with Inner Resources of Love
- 9 Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Internal Boundary Formation
- 10 Other Projective/Evocative Techniques
- 11 Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Performance Anxiety
- 12 Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Complex Clinical Syndromes
- 13 Ego-Strengthening With Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders I: Overview, Stabilization, and the Repair of Developmental Deficits
- 14 Ego-Strengthening With Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders II: Uncovering and Integration
- 15 The Strengthened Ego and the Transpersonal Self in Living and Dying
- Appendix
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index