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Product reviews for Foundations of Clinical Hypnosis
Lorraine McReight, London Hypnotherapy Academy (principal)
Considering some changes to my student's reading list, I spoke with Rosalie Williams at Crown House. She recommended this book as well as some other titles. Having many books waiting for appraisal, this one took a while to get to, but when I did, I was very pleasantly surprised. I had expected it to be a bit basic -” ideal maybe for students new to hypnotherapy, but maybe not too stimulating for an experienced therapist, but instead I found it a very interesting read.
The book is divided into five parts; Background, Clinical Considerations, Specific Procedures, Applications of Hypnosis and General Observations. Within each part are chapters, which are then divided into easy to read titled sections. If space allowed, I could innumerate the headings and topics, but so much is contained in 250 pages or so that this would be a very long article indeed. Suffice it to say, this is a book that is now very much on my student's recommended reading list.
There are, as you might expect, explanations of what hypnosis is and how it can be achieved, then various approaches and their uses and benefits; Yager divides hypnotic approaches into two basic types; suggestion and analysis. A few inductions of different styles are included, but this is not a book of scripts. It does however have much of what a new therapist needs. I'd be confident that there'd be something for therapists with more -˜flying hours' too.
Chapter 12 is all about Subliminal Therapy, which appears to be a form of parts therapy. Yager devotes thirty pages to this approach, the theory and practise, including several pages of flow charts that demonstrate how the process can be used. In later chapters Yager gives guidance on how to work with a range of issues from grief to physical pain and sexual dysfunction to depressive disorders, from weight management to tinnitus and much more. This book doesn't set out to be an encyclopaedia of presenting issues and treatment, but Yager discusses a wide range of presenting concerns.
This is a very readable and very helpful book for any therapist, experienced or otherwise. In this short review, I'm doing this great book an injustice. It is very readable and can be read cover to cover or dipped into at will. It is written clearly and has a good mix of academic and practical content. It has a glossary of terms that can be helpful for students and new therapists and is a book that would be a great addition to any therapist's bookshelf.
The book is divided into five parts; Background, Clinical Considerations, Specific Procedures, Applications of Hypnosis and General Observations. Within each part are chapters, which are then divided into easy to read titled sections. If space allowed, I could innumerate the headings and topics, but so much is contained in 250 pages or so that this would be a very long article indeed. Suffice it to say, this is a book that is now very much on my student's recommended reading list.
There are, as you might expect, explanations of what hypnosis is and how it can be achieved, then various approaches and their uses and benefits; Yager divides hypnotic approaches into two basic types; suggestion and analysis. A few inductions of different styles are included, but this is not a book of scripts. It does however have much of what a new therapist needs. I'd be confident that there'd be something for therapists with more -˜flying hours' too.
Chapter 12 is all about Subliminal Therapy, which appears to be a form of parts therapy. Yager devotes thirty pages to this approach, the theory and practise, including several pages of flow charts that demonstrate how the process can be used. In later chapters Yager gives guidance on how to work with a range of issues from grief to physical pain and sexual dysfunction to depressive disorders, from weight management to tinnitus and much more. This book doesn't set out to be an encyclopaedia of presenting issues and treatment, but Yager discusses a wide range of presenting concerns.
This is a very readable and very helpful book for any therapist, experienced or otherwise. In this short review, I'm doing this great book an injustice. It is very readable and can be read cover to cover or dipped into at will. It is written clearly and has a good mix of academic and practical content. It has a glossary of terms that can be helpful for students and new therapists and is a book that would be a great addition to any therapist's bookshelf.
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