Using hypnotic techniques to facilitate successful therapy. Over-reactive clients are those who experience a series of conflicted interpersonal relationships, anxiety, stress. psychosomatic illnesses, and an inability to self soothe, among other symptoms. For these clients, talk-therapy alone may be inadequate for providing long-lasting behavioral changes that manage their highly reactive emotions. Since the stress reaction is triggered so quickly and powerfully, it becomes incumbent upon the therapist to teach clients to intervene with rapidly induced calm states, and to give clients the tools to do so not just in the therapist's office, but also as they go about their daily lives. Dr. Daitch draws upon years of experience as a teacher and practitioner of hypnosis to compile a variety of quick, easy-to-learn techniques that help over-reactive clients learn to do just this. Mindfulness, switching channels, parts of self, age regression, juxtaposition of two feelings are just some of the tools covered. Implementing the various interventions in therapeutic sessions is explained, with a focus on three main areas of clinical practice: anxiety disorders, couples in conflict, and other interpersonal relationships. --- from the publisher Contents: Confronting the Challenges of Over-reactivity The Psychophysiology of Emotional Reactivity Preliminary Considerations for Using the Toolbox Tier 1: Identify the Start of an Over-reaction and Respond Appropriately Tier 2: Focus Attention, Calm, and Deepen Tier 3: Healing Strategies Tier 4: Behavioral and Practice Session Rehearsa Application of Tools with Common Anxiety Disorders Application of Tools with Severe Anxiety Disorders Application of Tools Within Marital/Committed Relationship Therapy Application of Tools Within Parent/Child, Sibling, Work, and Friendship Relationships Roadblocks and Challenges Epilogue Chapter 13 Promoting Adaptive Action: General Treatment Principles About the Author: Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D. ,is a fully licensed psychologist and director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She has over 25 years of clinical experience and currently divides her time between clinical practice, supervision, consultation and teaching. Dr. Daitch is a faculty member and approved consultant with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is a member of its Board of Governors. She is an internationally recognized speaker and has trained advanced practitioners in France, Greece, Asia, Canada as well as in the United States. She is a certified Imago Relationship therapist and has frequently presented on utilizing clinical hypnosis in relationship therapy. She has developed several self-hypnosis CD's: Managing the Distress of Cancer and its Treatment (with Dr. Hava Schaver); Dialing Down Anxiety; The Insomnia Solution; and Theta Sailing II.
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