Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales, and Trance States [Paperback]

Kenneth Kelzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 3, 1999

With a strong emphasis on personal transformation as essential to therapy, Deep Journeys explores how experiential therapy can supplement analytic and interpretative therapies. Kenneth Kelzer shows how therapists, using a trance induction process, can work with clients' dreams and personal archetypes to help them understand and heal the causes of their emotional symptoms.

Editorial Reviews

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"Kenneth Kelzer's Deep Journey system of psychotherapy strives for personal transformation, not mere adjustment of its clients. This provocative book describes many procedures that are innovative and results-oriented as well as case studies that demonstrate their effectiveness."
-Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School

"What a pleasure to find such beautifully written, unpretentious and straight-from-the-heart work that Ken Kelzer has given us. This record of hi Deep Journey Method gives us a view into the world of a skilled, experienced therapist as he does his inspired work."
-Robert K. Hall, M.D., Psychiatrist and Co-founder of the Lomi School

"This book is a treasure. I have seen Kenneth Kelzer demonstrate in groups how he reaches people for effective, long-term transformations. Here he describes in detail, with proven clarity and wise circumspection, the secrets of his Deep Journey Method. I am impressed."
-Hildegard Klippstein, Ph.D., Author and Clinical Psychotherapist

About the Author

Kenneth Kelzer, LCSW, is a practicing psychotherapist, author and workshop leader who has worked extensively with dreams for over thirty years. He received his M.S.W. degree in psychiatric social work from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968 and has taught at various social institutions in the San Francisco Bay Aream including the Esalen Institute and U.C. Extension. Mr. Kelzer is the originator of the Deep Journey Method of experiential psychotherapy, a new synthesis of contemporary therapies, which includes Ericksonian hypnotherapy, and Gestalt Therapy. He is the author of The Sun and the Shadow: My Experiment with Lucid Dreaming. He lives with his wife and son in Novato, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books (September 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556433174
• ISBN-13: 978-1556433177
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 6.2 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,468,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Taking the Journey via the book works just great, November 3, 2002

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This review is from: Deep Journeys: Experiential Psychotherapy with Dreams, Personal Archetypal Tales, and Trance States (Paperback)

I totally enjoyed the book, learned a lot from it and was looking forward to taking Mr. Kelzer's class. I'd stick with the book in the future -- the books explains the process of combining dreams, trance and affirmation into a workable process for really any kind of therapeutic issue -- not just deep trauma, crisis or repression. While in the book Mr. Kelzer states it is doable with either groups or individuals in the class he states 'oh no, it MUST be in a group' and, of course, he offers training in how to do the process in a group. The book explains it just fine. While in person Mr. Kelzer says to "go with the client" I noticed in the class that if something did not fit with his own personal paradigm he changed the issue to his and did not "go with the client." Additionally even after being told "I have your number I will call you if I wish anything further" he still called again.

The method seems clearly usable by both mainstream and "new age" type therapists -- by "new age" I mean people who are willing to look at what exists beyond our 3 dimensional world and non-traditional religion. There are a growing number of people dealing with spiritual crisis that I can see the method being used very well with -- and the book does a great job explaining this. HOWEVER, the therapist needs to be open to dealing with those spiritual issues where the client really is and not from within their own little box.