Catharsis in Regression Hypnotherapy: Transcripts of Transformation - Hardcover

by Randal Churchill (Author)

The follow up to Regression Hypnotherapy. When utilizing hypnotic regression to help heal the effects of trauma, the experience and elease of emotions is not necessarily a goal but is a common development which can become part of the opportunity for powerful therapy. This book explores issues and examples of working through exceptionally strong expressions of emotion. The book combines theory with a generous series of transcripts of actual sessions with commentary, giving the reader a close-up view of a wide variety of issues and situations demonstrating the dramatic potential of this work. Unlike common regression therapy styles that avoid or discourage emotions, working through emotional difficulties as appropriate is recognized as providing potential for deeper, more comprehensive therapy, thereby increasing the possibility for profound transformation. With fine-tuned sensitivity and skill, the author integrates a wealth of comprehensive options for emotional clearing work in regression. Hypnotherapy, and regression in particular, can provide a safe place for the purging of repressed emotions or energy that has been internalized in damaging ways, and this can be an extremely valuable step in transformational healing

Author Biography

Randal Churchill is founder of the Hypnotherapy Training Institute, which became one of the first licensed hypnotherapy schools in 1978. He was the first President of the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, the original and primary Hypnotherapy Certification organization, and completed his most recent term in 2012. He received his degree in Psychology with Honors from Sonoma State University and has completed 50,000 hours of exceptional hypnotherapy as he enters his 55th year in the field. Randal has received international acclaim for his creative and comprehensive therapy and teaching skills. An intuitive, highly supportive therapist, he is originator of Hypnotic Dreamwork(TM) and has been a pioneering leader for over 50 years of Gestalt therapy, regression, advanced ideomotor methods, and the assimilation of various modalities with hypnotherapy. The 1st Edition of Randal Churchill's seminal Become the Dream was the first book about the integration of dreamwork and hypnotherapy. The 480-page 2nd Edition of his classic text, Regression Hypnotherapy, was recently released. Teaching his revolutionary methods in working through underlying issues to overcome the effects of trauma, experts have called it the most important book about regression ever published. Both books have received the Founders Award for Excellence in Professional Literature. His 448-page text, Catharsis in Regression Hypnotherapy, has been published with rave reviews. He is co-author of the new book Churchill-Canfield's Law. Randal has taught at numerous conferences and institutions, including teaching psychiatrists at Napa State Hospital. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Gestalt Institute of Austin and a Lifetime Member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. The subject of a television documentary about his exceptional work, he has been interviewed by many media sources including the BBC, PBS and Japanese television.