ABSTRACT

In 1993 the authors published The Art of Change: Strategic Therapy and Hypnotherapy Without Trance, a revolutionary work that introduced a series of effective clinical strategies to create therapeutic change, even in seemingly impossible cases. In his new book, the author performs another quantum leap, leading his readers to a more operative knowledge of the precise logic of therapeutic change. Most intimidating mental disorders are based on perceptions of reality that when using an ordinary 'common-sense' logic as our reading lens, look as if they are irrational, bizarre, illogical and therefore hard to understand and manage.

chapter One|9 pages

Non-ordinary logic

chapter Two|7 pages

Self-deceptions and interactions

chapter Three|28 pages

Change

chapter Four|5 pages

Change and performative language

chapter Five|7 pages

Learning

chapter Six|12 pages

The logics of ambivalence

chapter Seven|6 pages

Operational concepts, therapeutic stratagems

chapter Eigth|39 pages

Therapeutic stratagems: clinical examples