This book is a scientifically current, integrative, and practical guide
for understanding clinical hypnosis and its place within a new health
care paradigm.
Blending four original short stories with a treatise, it alternates
narrative prose with health science discourse to create a framework for
embracing systemic emotional and relational elements that lie beyond
diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Following the stories
of four characters, the authors establish an empirically-grounded
conceptualization of the mind, then demonstrate how practical
applications of therapeutic hypnosis can help readers use individual and
family resources in health and healing.
Clinicians will learn to improve their care by embracing emotional,
relational, and narrative elements that powerfully affect health beyond
diagnosis, medication, surgery, and psychotherapy. Further, health care
educators and policy makers will find inspiration that enriches
professional training.