Affect Regulation Toolbox: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-reactive Client

Carolyn Daitch

Praise for Affect Regulation Toolbox:

"Affect Regulation Toolbox fills an aching void in the field of hypnotically facilitated psychotherapy, leading the patient into self-care mastery and self-efficacy as no other extant self-care program of this type does. It is a treasure to which I will return again and again."
—Claire Frederick, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

"Carolyn Daitch's new book fills a void by making great advances in the skill-based approach to affect regulation. In a single volume she has amassed the most comprehensive collection of affect regulatory skills now available.
—Daniel Brown, Ph.D., ABPH, Harvard Medical School

Carolyn Daitch has produced a new classic on hypnosis. This is a remarkable book—one that practitioners will consult for years. I keep it close at hand, next to Cory Hammond's red book. Carolyn has a keen sense of psychotherapeutic strategy and provides hypnotic tools for a wide range of everyday clinical problems. The book is especially helpful for therapists treating the anxiety disorders."
—Donald Moss, Ph.D., Editor, Biofeedback magazine

"Knowing that clients who get 'lost in their feelings' are much less likely to make good decisions or behave effectively, Carolyn Daitch shares an impressive array of effective and goal-directed hypnotic strategies that can help clients develop the vitally important awareness that they are much more than their feelings. Readers will find this book a most valuable tool to keep in their own therapeutic toolbox!"
—Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and author of Trancework: An Introduction to the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis, Third Edition

"Practical, thoroughly readable, and packed with client-focused strategies for emotion management, Daitch has produced a valuable therapeutic tool with this book. Her sensitivity to the real-life needs of therapists and their clients is impressive, and this book—relevant for therapists at all levels of experience—provides real-life answers."
—Bill O'Hanlon, author of Solution-Oriented Hypnosis and Change 101

"Because the deleterious effects of stress on behavior are well known, the relaxation techniques in Carolyn Daitch's encyclopedic Affect Regulation Toolbox are essential resources for all therapists who work with over-reactive clients. I heartily recommend this book."
—Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy and author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

"In this treasure trove of a book, Carolyn Daitch deftly demonstrates how hypnosis can be used to help clients manage distressing affect. Seasoned clinicians will welcome these tools as presented, and will find themselves generating new ideas for their clients based on the principles laid forth so clearly here. Psychotherapists who are newer to hypnosis will welcome Daitch's pragmatic approach, and will better understand the healing power of hypnosis and how to adapt it to the particular difficulties their clients face. Those who are not yet trained in hypnosis will find that this book whets their intellectual appetites."
—Sheryll Daniel, Ph.D.; Member, Immediate Past President, Approved Consultant, and Fellow, ASCH

Overview – Contents

 

Using hypnotic techniques to facilitate successful therapy. Over-reactive clients are those who experience a series of conflicted interpersonal relationships, anxiety, stress. psychosomatic illnesses, and an inability to self soothe, among other symptoms. For these clients, talk-therapy alone may be inadequate for providing long-lasting behavioral changes that manage their highly reactive emotions. Since the stress reaction is triggered so quickly and powerfully, it becomes incumbent upon the therapist to teach clients to intervene with rapidly induced calm states, and to give clients the tools to do so not just in the therapist's office, but also as they go about their daily lives. Dr. Daitch draws upon years of experience as a teacher and practitioner of hypnosis to compile a variety of quick, easy-to-learn techniques that help over-reactive clients learn to do just this. Mindfulness, switching channels, parts of self, age regression, juxtaposition of two feelings are just some of the tools covered. Implementing the various interventions in therapeutic sessions is explained, with a focus on three main areas of clinical practice: anxiety disorders, couples in conflict, and other interpersonal relationships.

About the Author

Carolyn Daitch, Ph.D. ,is a fully licensed psychologist and director of the Center for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She has over 25 years of clinical experience and currently divides her time between clinical practice, supervision, consultation and teaching. Dr. Daitch is a faculty member and approved consultant with the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is a member of its Board of Governors. She is an internationally recognized speaker and has trained advanced practitioners in France, Greece, Asia, Canada as well as in the United States. She is a certified Imago Relationship therapist and has frequently presented on utilizing clinical hypnosis in relationship therapy. She has developed several self-hypnosis CDs: Managing the Distress of Cancer and its Treatment (with Dr. Hava Schaver); Dialing Down Anxiety; The Insomnia Solution; and Theta Sailing II.

ISBN 10: 0-393-70495-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-70495-2
2007 / 256 pages / Hardcover