Product reviews for Ego State Therapy

Ego State Therapy is based on the premise that our personality is not a homogenous whole, but is formed of separate parts. This idea in itself is ancient, you can find it inferred in writers from Aristotle to Shakespeare.

More recently it is echoed in the Parts Therapy approach which has its roots in the work of Fritz Perls and was further developed by Gil Boyne, Charles Tebbetts and Roy Hunter. Systemic therapists talk of our -˜Inner Others', and Transactional Analysis has explored the term Ego States in a somewhat different way. The form of therapy that Emmerson describes derives from the work of John and Helen Watkins and is an eclectic mix with Hypnosis being a strong ingredient.

A reader of this book would have a very clear idea of the theoretical underpinnings of this approach as well as a wide range of techniques available to them by the time they had finished with it. With my NLP background I am familiar with working with Parts (or Ego States) with techniques such as Visual Squash and the Core Transformation process, but this book gave me new ideas about how to extend the range of my interventions.

The detail provided is in-depth without ever being turgid, and would allow most practitioners to begin using this approach with confidence, even the question techniques when working with Ego States is comprehensively covered.

Instinctively I am against therapies that take one aspect of our humanity and claim it as the single route to cure. Emmerson avoids this, for all his obvious passion and commitment to Ego State therapy, but does offer a range of possibilities for working with a range of issues that are commonly brought to the consulting room.

An intelligent, well-researched and well-written book, put it on your wish list, but don't leave it there for long.