Mindfulness and Hypnosis – Michael Yapko

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Summary

• Archive: Winner of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) Arthur Shapiro Award for Best Book on Hypnosis, this book explores how mindfulness and hypnosis in a clinical context work to help foster change.In recent years mindfulness has become integrated into many clinicians’ private practices, and become a staple of hospital and university based treatment programs for stress reduction, pain, anxiety management, and a host of other difficulties.

• Clinicians are now routinely encouraging their clients to focus, be aware, open, and accepting, and thereby derive benefit from the mindfulness experience.How has mindfulness, a treatment tool that might easily have been dismissed as esoteric only a few short years ago, become so widely accepted and applied?

• One obvious answer: Because it works.

• The empirical foundation documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness is already substantial and is still growing.This is not a book about documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness, however.

• Rather, this book is the first of its kind to address how and most importantly why guided mindfulness meditations can enhance treatment.