Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening

di Shirley McNeal (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024

Inner Strengths is the first book to meet the need for a comprehensive treatment of approaches to ego-strengthening in psychotherapy. It 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. Written by two experienced psychotherapists, who were active in developing the newer, projective-evocative ego-strengthening techniques, this book emphasizes the utilization of patients' inner resources. They survey the history of ego-strengthening efforts and show how that which has been considered intrinsically hypnotic connects with the great traditions of psychotherapy. Additionally, they offer step-by-step instructions for a diversity of ego-strengthening methods that can be used for patient self-care, internal boundary formation, and personality maturation in a wide range of clinical conditions. Their discussion of the fundamental concepts of ego-strengthening draws on their theoretical and clinical explorations of dynamic internal resources such as memory, strength, wisdom, self-soothing, and love. Throughout the book, theory is balanced by an unusual richness of extended clinical examples and a wide variety of practical ego-strengthening scripts. This classic edition is essential reading for seasoned clinicians of hypnosis and beginners alike.

• Autore: Shirley McNeal
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 376 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 860 gr.
• EAN: 9781032581002

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