The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy, Douglas Flemons
The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy, Douglas Flemons
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The Heart and Mind of Hypnotherapy
Inviting Connection, Inventing Change

Author: Douglas Flemons, Michael D. Yapko, PhD

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

Explains and demonstrates how to create and utilize mind-body connections for unknotting vexing problems.

In the popular imagination, hypnosis is misconstrued as something done to people, as if the hypnotist hypnotizes them. And hypnotherapy is similarly misconceived as something done to clients' problems, as if the therapist could unilaterally counter or cure them. In a refreshing departure from conception-as-usual, Douglas Flemons offers another view, articulating relational ideas about how minds and bodies communicate and learn.

In his characteristically casual and concise way, Flemons explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited, not induced, and how hypnotherapy entails the altering and unraveling of knotted strands of problematic experience, not the controlling and abolishing of labeled afflictions. The therapist gets in sync with clients so they can, together, extemporaneously facilitate changes to undesired thoughts, urges, emotions, sensations, or behaviors. This book takes you to the heart of hypnotherapy, to the respectful, playful practice of utilizing clients' flow experience to collaboratively discover and create opportunities for embodied learning and therapeutic change.

About Douglas Flemons

For more than thirty years, Douglas Flemons has devoted himself to developing-through his practice, research, teaching, supervision, and writing-a relational approach to hypnotherapy and brief therapy. Currently in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina, he regularly offers hypnotherapy workshops and international trainings.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roberta on December 09, 2023

I LOVE this book. This book parallels Laurel Parnell's books about EMDR because she opened EMDR up to be a creative, rather than a scripted, endeavor with clients. Flemons helped to open up how I view my role with hypnotherapy. The book itself was hypnotic. His approach is realistic and profound. Af......more