Want to be a more effective clinician? Want to avoid burnout? Want to better cultivate your unique brilliance? Jeff Zeig wants that too. It is good for the field, for clients, for those working on the front lines of mental health. With Evocation: Enhancing the Psychotherapeutic Encounter, Jeff invites therapists of all stripes and at every professional level to unshackle their creativity! He demonstrates the benefits, delineates the concepts, and shows readers how to put them into action. Jeff has studied and actually sat down with some of the foremost writers, filmmakers, and composers of our time so that he could better understand the grammar of impact from different perspectives. Just as a therapist hopes to orient a client to new opportunities, a poet seeks to awaken new possibilities. Evocation weaves together various rich threads — encounters with art, exercises for reader engagement, case excerpts, insights into Erickson’s cases, and so much more — to reveal the endless potential for evoking fresh resolutions within clients. Jeff redefines the therapeutic encounter to include an essential multidimensional vocabulary — spoken, gestural, hypnotic — that can naturally ebb and flow with the client’s capacity for engagement. The final contribution of a quartet of revelatory volumes — Psychoaerobics, The Induction of Hypnosis, and Anatomy of Experiential Impact — Evocation both builds on the previous books and stands alone. Dr Jeffrey K. Zeig has spent a lifetime evolving what he calls “evocative therapy.” In Evocation, he continues an exploration that began decades ago as he sought to trace — and to expand upon — the nuances and applications of Milton Erickson’s extraordinary work. Turning here to the original masters of evocative communication — painters, composers, filmmakers, poets, choreographers — he demystifies the grammar of the artist’s expression, teaching readers how to use it to enhance and empower their therapeutic communication. This book is built out from a central belief: Therapy at its best, whatever the paradigm, invites shared awakening rather than relying on data delivery. |