This is the first volume of the collected works of Kay Thompson, a hypnotherapist and international teacher of hypnosis and one of the most gifted students of the legendary psychiatrist, Milton Erickson. It contains articles and transcriptions of her original lectures and workshops, which have not been previously available in hard copy.
Kay Thompson's unique abilities with the language of hypnosis entranced listeners throughout the world. She expanded the ways words and language and thus metaphor could be used in clinical hypnosis and therapy, and lectured widely about how language affects physiology. Her contributions are among the underpinnings of current clinical hypnosis and are important resources for modern psychotherapy.
The editors have chosen excerpts from Kay's original lectures and workshops which reflect the range and depth of her clinical expertise and knowledge, her particular emphases, orientation and approaches, her dynamic and forceful personality and her playful hypnotic communications.
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Saralee Kane, MSW, is in private practice in Seattle, Washington. She has authored various publications, including several on human rights and international adoption, and is the author of Working with Victims of Organized Violence from Different Cultures: A Red Cross and Red Crescent Guide.
Karen Olness, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and International Health, Case Western Reserve University. She is current President of the International Society of Hypnosis and Past President of the American Society of Hypnosis, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Board of Medical Hypnosis, and the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.