Tales Of Enchantment: Goal-Oriented Metaphors For Adults And Children In Therapy / Edition 1

by Carol H. Lankton, Stephan R. Lankton

Overview

What can a therapist do when faced with the all-too-familiar client who seems stuck or resistant? With this volume, veteran therapists Carol and Steve Lankton offer clinicians an effective tool with which they can expand their ability to be successful in therapy through integrating the use of indirection into the more commonly used rational and direct approach. This is a book of predesigned stories that the Lanktons and their trainees have told in successful therapy in order to assist clients in their movement toward specific, preplanned goals. The stories are categorized according to the way they are structured to reach particular types of goals, such as changes in affect, attitudinal restructuring, changes in behavior, changes in family structure, changes in self-image and many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138009509
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/25/2015
Pages:	433
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carol H. Lankton, M.A., is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the American Family Therapy Association, an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board for the Ericksonian Monographs, and has been among the invited faculty of the Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, 1982, 1982, 1984, 1986 and 1988. She is also the author of numerous articles and teaching videos.

Stephen R. Lankton, M.S.W., is a Board Certified Diplomate in Social Work (ABECSW & NASW). He is an Approved Supervisor and Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and is board certified a a Diplomate in Clinical Hypnosis by the American Board for Clinical Social Work. He is founding editor of the Ericksonian Monographs and the author of Practical Magic: A Translation of Neurolinguistic Programming into Clinical Psychotherapyand of the children's book, The Blammo-Surprise! Book: A Story to Help Children Overcome Their Fears.

Table of Contents

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

1 This Part of the Forest 1

2 Affect Metaphors 27

3 Attitude Metaphors 69

4 Behavior Metaphors 147

5 Family Structure Change Metaphors 187

6 Self-image Thinking Metaphors 207

7 Identity-Organization and Role-Development Metaphors 251

8 Discipline and Enjoyment Metaphors 285

9 Other Therapeutic Procedures Using Metaphor 317

10 Trance Phenomena Anecdotes 349

11 Metaphors for Children 379

Bibliography 411