The February man
Subtitle: evolving consciousness and identity in hypnotherapy
By: Milton H. Erickson & Ernest Lawrence Rossi
Contributors: Rossi, Ernest Lawrence
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780203835906; 9781283379373
Subjects: Hypnotism; Therapeutic use; Hypnosis; Psychotherapy; Methods; Hypnothérapie
Description: This book is a fascinating case study that illustrates the use of multiple levels of consciousness and meaning to access and therapeutically reframe traumatic memories that were the source of very severe phobias and depression. A rare record of Erickson's pioneering genius in facilitating the evolution of new patterns of consciousness and identity in a patient.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Session 1, pt. 1. Approaches to therapeutic hypnosis; title: session 1, pt. 2. Identity creation of the the February man; title: session 2. Multiple levels of communication and being; title: session 3. Evoking and utilizing psychodynamic processes; title: session 4. Active therapeutic trancework.