In recent years mindfulness has become integrated into many clinicians' private practices, and become a staple of hospital and university based treatment programs for stress reduction, pain, anxiety management, and a host of other difficulties. Clinicians are now routinely encouraging their clients to focus, be aware, open, and accepting, and thereby derive benefit from the mindfulness experience. How has mindfulness, a treatment tool that might easily have been dismissed as esoteric only a few short years ago, become so widely accepted and applied? One obvious answer: Because it works. The empirical foundation documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness is already substantial and is still growing. This is not a book about documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness, however. Rather, this book is the first of its kind to address how and most importantly why guided mindfulness meditations can enhance treatment. The focus in this book is on the structure of guided mindfulness meditations and, especially, the role of suggestion in these processes. Specifically, one of the primary questions addressed in this book is this: When a psychotherapist conducts guided mindfulness meditations (GMMs) for some clinical purpose, how does mindfulness work?In posing this question other questions arise that are every bit as compelling: Do GMMs contain structural elements that can be identified and amplified and thereby employed more efficiently? How do we determine who is most likely to benefit from such methods? Can GMMs be improved by adapting them to the needs of specific individuals rather than employing scripted one size fits all approaches?Discussing the role of suggestion in experience and offering the author's concrete suggestions for integrating this work into psychotherapy, this book is a practical guide to hypnosis, focusing, and mindfulness for the clinician.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-13
9780393706970
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109253850
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Clinical Psychology, Biological Psychology
Author
Michael D. Yapko
Publication Name
Mindfulness and Hypnosis: the Power of Suggestion to Transform Experience
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
244mm
Item Width
165mm
Item Weight
541g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Michael D. Yapko
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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