Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hypnosis in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy -- Therapeutic hypnosis -- Development of understanding of hypnosis -- Fantasy in human sexuality and thinking -- Dreaming, fantasy and auto-hypnosis -- Auto-hypnosis as therapeutic regression -- The PDM personality types in hypnoanalysis -- Principles of hypnoanalysis -- Mind training/new hypnosis as experiential learning -- Unconscious resources activated with hypnotic mind training -- Hypnoanalysis as holistic psychoanalysis -- Practical hypnoanalysis.
"This volume clears up many misconceptions surrounding the practice by exploring it as a part of psychodynamic psychotherapy. In this context, hypnosis involves the activation of the patient's fantasy to create a new inner reality of the self, so that this reality can take the place of the old one for personal enrichment of the individual"-- Provided by publisher.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.