Hypnosis and Treating Depression Applications in Clinical Practice

"Michael Yapko has long been a clear and compelling advocate for the merits of hypnosis in enhancing psychotherapeutic treatments for depression. In this new and innovative volume, Dr. Yapko has added the voices of other well known hypnosis and depression experts to the call for more creative and empowering treatments. The collective wisdom contained herein is impressive by any standards, and will certainly be regarded as a significant contribution to the field." - Reid Wilson, Ph.D., Director, Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center; author, Don't Panic! "In his previous volumes, Michael Yapko has provided us with the science and methods to help change our thinking about treating depression with hypnosis. In this highly readable new text, Yapko brings together a group of like-minded expert therapists who generously share their clinical artistry and collectively encourage the reader's as well. Reading this book can bring a new excitement to the prospect of working hypnotically with people suffering from many kinds of depression." - Marc I. Oster, Psy.D., ABPH, Past President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis; Associate Professor, Argosy University "This is an excellent book that culls together a variety of clinical, theoretical, and research perspectives on the uses of hypnosis in treating depression. Michael Yapko deserves a great deal of praise for drawing together a group of authors from the Ericksonian, socio-cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, ego state, and other hypnotic traditions to write this highly informative and stimulating book. Readers at all levels of expertise will enjoy the diversity of its rich clinical and theoretical insights. I also highly commend the authors for providing chapters with detailed therapy transcripts that demonstrate their therapeutic artistry as well as their conceptual rigor." - Ian Wickramasekera II, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center & University of Illinois Medical School Chicago, IL, in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis