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Talk therapist, learning hypnosis and a few regression methods. I’ve read SO many books… which was kind of helpful. I hope you’re doing all right. he/him
For the curious, the price is $11.32 (cheaper than the paperback!). I got it for $12 after tax
Hypnosis is neat, and a great place to start remains Dave Elman’s book Hypnotherapy
The researchers refer to “a new induction protocol that combined meditation, visualisation and lucid dreaming techniques.” This sounds suspiciously close to hypnosis, which they could look to for helpful work already done. Research like this that ignores hypnosis needlessly starts at square one.
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Alice Miller spends like a third of this book explaining Nietzsche’s whole deal. Here’s the relevant bit: “The call to war has essentially one symbolic meaning for Nietzsche: it represents nothing other than declaring battle against the deadly coercion, lies, and cowardice that constricted… (cont)
There is no bottom to the absolute truth you’re saying. We all just don’t want to believe it’s true
O’Hanlon, Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis (1987). A quick, fun read full of anecdotes of Erickson treating patients. I recommend this after you’ve gained some familiarity with using hypnosis, as the tools can seem confusing or unclear to the untrained.
Spiegel & Spiegel, Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis (2nd ed.) (2004). Yet another example of a writing duo focused on hypnosis, this time a father-son pair of MDs. This a straightforward nuts and bolts approach to common maladies amenable to hypnotherapy. I really recommend it!
The Stormy Search for the Self (1990), Grof & Grof. A friend going through a Master’s program recommended this after we talked about medicine-assisted therapy. She warned it might be a bit woo for me, and I’m glad I read this late in my journey instead of the start. Woo can distort good ideas!
Bowlby realized too late that he would have preferred to call it “care-seeking” instead of attachment, which had been misconstrued at times (p. 18). Research indicates it takes a great deal of time at daycare (70+ hours a week) to interfere with normal bonding (p. 27).
Duschinsky, Forslund & Granqvist, The Psychology of Attachment (2024) This book caught my interest because it is from this year. I was hoping to get myself caught up on a few decades of attachment theory via a short read. The book is little too heavy on research for me to recommend it widely.
I think I have to recommend the next book in this series by the same authors (Advanced Hypnotherapy, 2008/2015) over this one, as that one contains long chapters on ego-state therapy and abreactive techniques, but this one really gives you an idea of all the conditions hypnosis can help with
My reading typically goes Into The Void, so starting now my plan is post a picture of the books I have finished reading and a few thoughts about them! I hope my fellow therapy-enjoyers get something out of it Up first: Barabasz & Watkins, Hypnotherapeutic Techniques (2nd ed.)
I was not prepared for my favorite character to be the put-upon mail robot. ymmv
While I am more than sure you’re aware of this, the genius Alice Miller (of The Drama of the Gifted Child fame) also wrote a book about this stuff called For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing
I’m enjoying Gen V, the spinoff to The Boys, but the Rogue character is clearly a/the bad guy, right? That clarifies why they opted to tell so much of the story in flashback, and gives a plausible reason for her boyfriend acting out at the end of the first episode. We shall see