Inner Strengths

ISBN-13: 9781032581002 / Twarda / 2024 / 376 str.

Shirley McNeal

Opis

Inner Strengths 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.

Recenzje

"Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-strengthening made a substantive contribution to the theory and practice of hypnosis through providing a framework for understanding the personal strengths we have within, and giving practitioners the tools to elicit these strengths. It is a book that remains relevant, and I will personally return to it when engaging in research and practice."

Professor Tharina Guse, University of Pretoria

"This is an outstanding book which combines thoughtful scholarship with clinical utility. While primarily conceptualizing egomastery techniques from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective, the book is transtheoretical with applicability to both hypnotherapy and to more general psychotherapy. Enhanced self-stability, self efficacy and self esteem form the heart of nearly every psychotherapeutic encounter and process. I suspect that this book will prove to be a central text for any psychotherapist's library. I recommend it with enthusiasm."

Elgan L. Baker, President Society for Clinical and Experiemental Hypnosis; Indiana Center for Ps. 

"In a book that ranges from psychoanalytic to transpersonal perspectives, and from treating dissociative disorders to facilitating patients' self-care, Claire Frederick and Shirley A. McNeal present a treasury of concepts, techniques, and examples that will enrich any practitioner who explores them. Inner Strengths is an inspirational commentary on the human condition, its resilience, and how dividied, broken, and violated selves can be mended through the wise application of psychotherapeutic procedures that are at the cutting edge of clinical practice."

Stanley Krippner, Saybrook Graduate School; Coauthor, The Mythic Path; Coeditor Broken Images.

"Inner Strengths is an important book for all clinicians working with traumatized patients. Drs. Frederick and McNeal draw upon the major psychotherapeutic and hypnotic traditins to present an integrative approach to ego-strengthening treatment that is grounded in both respect and compassion for the client. In easily read prose, important concepts are robustly defined, linked to the theoretical literature, and clinically explained and illustrated by means of detailed case examples. The authors' considerable scholarship and clinical acumen guide both novice and experienced clinicans through an informative and wide-ranging exploration of both hypnotic and non-hypnotic ego-strengthening techniques."

Francine Shapiro, EMDR Institute. 

Spis treści

Foreword to the Classic Edition by Shirley McNeal  Foreword by Stephen Gilligan  Foreword by John G Watkins and Helen H Watkins  Preface  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 Neighbours: 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 

O autorze

Claire Frederick, M.D. was a psychiatrist, who taught, consulted, and presented papers nationally and internationally. She was a co-author, with Maggie Phillips, Ph.D. of Healing the Divided Self: Clinical and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Conditions. She received multiple awards from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Shirley McNeal, Ph.D. has been a psychologist in private practice, who also presented papers, taught, and consulted nationally and internationally. She has received awards for her writing from the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis and the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.