Crown House Publishing Ltd.

Subliminal therapy; using the mind to heal.

Yager (psychiatry, U. of California San Diego) introduces the concepts and applications of his subliminal therapy technique to mental health clinicians. He overviews the phases of the process and compares it to other techniques, and describes its uses for mental and physical problems; its theory and assumptions; applications to pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, migraine and tension headaches, depression and anxiety, addictions, vaginismus, and weight management; cases; how to deal with problems in communication and resistance to change; research on its efficacy; other considerations such as self-use, recurrent symptoms, and when not to use it; and the Subliminal Therapy Institute, which he established in 2009. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Thinking therapeutically; hypnotic skills and strategies explored.

Following personal accounts of their paths to becoming hypnotherapists, directors of the Contemporary College of Therapeutic Studies, UK, present session excerpts to illustrate "quick change" techniques within cognitive behavioral hypnotherapy and neurolinguistic programming. Barber and Westland explain the selection, use, and processing of guided imagery and other techniques to work with conditions including eating disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, and shyness/lack of confidence, but not the common indications for hypnosis of insomnia and smoking. Authors' reflections on each other's work, interspersed quotes, a glossary, and references are included. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)