Inner Strengths: Contemporary Psychotherapy And Hypnosis For Egostrengthening (Lea Series In Personality And Clinical Psycholog,New

However It Is Conceived And Described By Psychotherapists With Different Orientations, A Stronger Ego Is A Universallyacknowledged Goal Of Therapeutic Work. Inner Strengths Is The First Book To Meet The Need For A Comprehensive Treatment Of Approaches To Egostrengthening In Psychotherapy. It Provides Contemporary Psychodynamic, Object Relations, Selfpsychology, Ego State, And Transpersonal Theoretical Models For Understanding How And Why Egostrengthening Occurs.The Authors Are Experienced Psychotherapists Who Integrate Hypnosis Into Their Own Practice Of Psychotherapy. They Have Been Active In Developing The Newer, Projectiveevocative Egostrengthening Techniques Emphasizing The Utilization Of Patients' Inner Resources. They Survey The History Of Egostrengthening Efforts And Show How That Which Has Been Considered Intrinsically Hypnotic Connects With The Great Traditions Of Psychotherapy. Additionally, They Offer Stepbystep Instructions For A Diversity Of Egostrengthening Methods That Can Be Used For Patient Selfcare, Internal Boundary Formation, And Personality Maturation In A Wide Range Of Clinical Conditions. Their Discussion Of The Fundamental Concepts Of Egostrengthening Draws On Their Theoretical And Clinical Explorations Of Dynamic Internal Resources Such As Memory, Strength, Wisdom, Selfsoothing, And Love. Throughout The Book, Theory Is Balanced By An Unusual Richness Of Extended Clinical Examples And A Wide Variety Of Practical Egostrengthening Scripts.Clinicians Need Not Be Trained In Hypnosis To Find Inner Strengths Clarifying And Helpful Reading; The Fundamental Points So Vividly Made By The Authors Are Relevant To Many Nonhypnotictherapeutic Interventions And Issues.