Inner Strengths : Contemporary Psychotherapy and Hypnosis for Ego-Strengthening

by Frederick, Claire; McNeal, Shirley; McNeal, Shirley A.

• ISBN13: 9780805825732
• ISBN10: 0805825738
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

However it is conceived and described by psychotherapists with different orientations, a stronger ego is a universally-acknowledged goal of therapeutic work. Inner Strengthsis the first book to meet the need for a comprehensive treatment of approaches to ego-strengthening in psychotherapy. It provides contemporary psychodynamic, object relations, self-psychology, ego state, and transpersonal theoretical models for understanding how and why ego-strengthening occurs. The authors are experienced psychotherapists who integrate hypnosis into their own practice of psychotherapy. They have been active in developing the newer, projective-evocative ego-strengthening techniques emphasizing the utilization of patients' inner resources. They survey the history of ego-strengthening efforts and show how that which has been considered intrinsically hypnotic connects with the great traditions of psychotherapy. Additionally, they offer step-by-step instructions for a diversity of ego-strengthening methods that can be used for patient self-care, internal boundary formation, and personality maturation in a wide range of clinical conditions. Their discussion of the fundamental concepts of ego-strengthening draws on their theoretical and clinical explorations of dynamic internal resources such as memory, strength, wisdom, self-soothing, and love. Throughout the book, theory is balanced by an unusual richness of extended clinical examples and a wide variety of practical ego-strengthening scripts. Clinicians need not be trained in hypnosis to find Inner Strengthsclarifying and helpful reading; the fundamental points so vividly made by the authors are relevant to many nonhypnotic-therapeutic interventions and issues.

Author Biography

Claire Frederick, MD is a psychiatrist in private practice in Tahoe City, California and an adjunct faculty member at Pacifica School of Graduate Studies.

Table of Contents

Dedications	p. v
Foreword	p. ix
About the Author	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
About the Authors	p. xiv
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Ego-Strengthening: The Therapeutic Tradition	p. 1
Ego-Strengthening: The Classical Hypnotic Tradition	p. 23
Ego-Strengthening: The Ericksonian Tradition	p. 49
The Ego-State Model in Hypnotic and Nonhypnotic Psychotherapy	p. 72
The Utilization of Time as a Vehicle for Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening	p. 95
The Ego: Its Composition	p. 128
Internal Self-Soothing and the Development of the Self	p. 147
Inner Love: Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening with Inner Resources of Love	p. 182
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Internal Boundary Formation	p. 201
Other Projective/Evocative Techniques	p. 223
Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Performance Anxiety	p. 243
Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Complex Clinical Syndromes	p. 268
Ego-Strengthening with Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders I: Overview, Stabilization, and the Repair of Developmental Deficits	p. 289
Ego-Strengthening with Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders II: Uncovering and Integration	p. 315
The Strengthened Ego and the Transpersonal Self in Living and Dying	p. 328
Appendix	p. 347
References	p. 351
Author Index	p. 377
Subject Index	p. 384
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