Creative Therapeutic Technique: Skills for the Art of Bringing Forth Change
A book you can t put down! I don t know how to adequately convey that the Keeneys are true to the work of Milton H. Erickson. This is improvisation and utilization at its best, delivering solidly based effective therapeutic work. With exercises and all sorts of informative teaching, they show us how to do it. Best of all, the book fulfills a remarkable paradox: you will hate to finish this well-written, entertaining, and practice-changing book, but will hardly wait to finish so that you can use what s been learned. --Betty Alice Erickson, M.S., LMFTIf you are looking for new inspiration to enliven your clinical practice, this is the book to read. The Keeneys are masters of invention. Turning conventional thinking and practices on their head, they encourage therapists to leap over the bonds of the rational and enter the realm of the theatrical and metaphorical. They create a new therapeutic context with first, second and third acts. Guidelines are included that lay out specific ways for therapists to give free rein to their own imagination and develop their unique creativity. The book is filled with many clinical surprises. There are startling examples of transformative experiences in which silver linings are found within the darkest situations, seeds of hope are implanted in barren landscapes and nightmares are turned into dreams. It was a pleasure to read and I highly recommend it. --Peggy Papp, LCSWIf you try to get nothing from this book, happily, you will fail: It is a page-packed monument to unscripted change! You won't put it down once you begin as it teaches how to amplify experiential resources rather than focus on either problems or solutions. The book's creative voice alone will inspire therapists to pull the weeds out of any garden-variety approach and let flowers of change blossom and grow for both them and their clients. Enjoy. --Stephen Lankton, MSW, LCSW, DAHBIf you are looking for new inspiration to enliven your clinical practice, this is the book to read. The Keeneys are masters of invention. Turning conventional thinking and practices on their head, they encourage therapists to leap over the bonds of the rational and enter the realm of the theatrical and metaphorical. They create a new therapeutic context with first, second and third acts. Guidelines are included that lay out specific ways for therapists to give free rein to their own imagination and develop their unique creativity. The book is filled with many clinical surprises. There are startling examples of transformative experiences in which silver linings are found within the darkest situations, seeds of hope are implanted in barren landscapes and nightmares are turned into dreams. It was a pleasure to read and I highly recommend it. --Peggy Papp, LCSWIf you try to get nothing from this book, happily, you will fail: It is a page-packed monument to unscripted change! You won't put it down once you begin as it teaches how to amplify experiential resources rather than focus on either problems or solutions. The book's creative voice alone will inspire therapists to pull the weeds out of any garden-variety approach and let flowers of change blossom and grow for both them and their clients. Enjoy. --Stephen Lankton, MSW, LCSW, DAHB