Hypnosis and the Body Image : A Projective Technique and Psychotherapeutic Approach Based upon the Hallucinatory Phenomena of Hypnosis in Which the Revivification of Ideo-Sensory Motor Experiences Take Place

HYPNOSIS & THE BODY IMAGE is subtitled "A Projective Technique & Psychotherapeutic Approach Based Upon the Hallucinatory Phenomena of Hypnosis in Which Revivification of Ideo-Sensory Motor Experiences Takes Place." It's ground breaking! Noted psychiatrist Freytag applies the hypnotherapeutic use of unconscious body image to feelings of inferiority, hostility & aggression, depressed & anxiety states, diagnostic & uncovering techniques, transference, obsession & compulsion, depersonalization, schizophrenic states, & psychosomatic illness. In her preface Dr. Freytag writes of the origin of her ideas..."for this she is indebted to Dr. Milton H. Erickson who has been her instructor in the application of hypnotic phenomena to psychotherapy... On one occasion in a discussion with Dr. Erickson there arose the question of what hypnotic techniques could be employed when the patient needed to resolve a fixation to a significant childhood figure... Dr. Erickson suggested that in such cases the patient could hallucinate a composite image, an image of the patient & of the object on which the patient was fixated; two images as one. After this is accomplished a slow separation should be begun, alternating with the merging of the separated images again into one image, & followed by further separation until the patient is able to sever the pathological emotional tie. After some months of working with this technique, it occurred to the writer that the patient might be able to hallucinate his own unconscious body image & that this hallucinated image might in some way express the pathology present in the unconscious mind." This book has important implications for any therapist & especially those using hypnoanalysis." 271 pages. ILLUSTRATED ISBN 1-881615-01-4.Freytag, Fredericka F. is the author of 'Hypnosis and the Body Image : A Projective Technique and Psychotherapeutic Approach Based upon the Hallucinatory Phenomena of Hypnosis in Which the Revivification of Ideo-Sensory Motor Experiences Take Place', published 1994 under ISBN 9781881615019 and ISBN 1881615014.