Transpersonal Hypnosis [Hardcover]

Eric D Leskowitz (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849322375 | ISBN-13: 978-0849322372 | Publication Date: September 28, 1999 | Edition: 1

Transpersonal Hypnosis presents a multidimensional, energy-based view of human awareness that integrates disparate biological, psychological, and spiritual therapeutic techniques. Each of the chapters - all from world-renowned contributors - includes both a historical overview and the theory behind the development of each technique. The authors emphasize experimental studies that examine the validity of using hypnotically accessed transpersonal states of consciousness to heal the body, mind, and spirit. Several clinical vignettes highlight the types of medical and psychological symptoms responsive to these approaches. The emerging field of spiritually-influenced treatments is transforming the practice of medicine.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Transpersonal Hypnosis explores an ancient yet modern view of the mind-that it extends beyond the body and is free in space and time. Modern physicians, therapists, and scholars are at long last beginning to take seriously this view of consciousness. The implications of this perspective for our origins and destiny are full of hope and promise, as this book compellingly reveals.
-Larry Dossey, M.D., Editor, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

A wonderful collection of information and insights that are vital to our understanding of the nature of life, healing and consciousness.
-Bernie Siegel, M.D.

The new frontier is on these pages; this is where the intellectual excitement, the creativity, and the healing potential truly lies. Bravo!
-Belleruth Naparstek, author of Your Sixth Sense

Overall, this is a highly recommended book that is clearly written and provides helpful information for anyone interested in transpersonal growth in clinical practice, from novice to experienced professionals. I was pleased to pick up new insights, new techniques, and new suggestions for further reading from many of the chapters.
- Daniel J. Benor, MD, author of Healing Research, Volumes I-IV

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (September 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849322375
• ISBN-13: 978-0849322372
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,038,637 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Future classic in the Transpersonal field, March 24, 2004

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Ajamu Ayinde "trancedancer16" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transpersonal Hypnosis (Hardcover)

Transpersonal Hypnosis is a marvelous book. I'm a Trainer for the Nat. Assoc. of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists so when I came across it 2001, I wrote a glowing review of it in our magazine, The Bridge. Since that time I have continued to reference it in my classes and recommend it to colleagues. Transpersonal Hypnosis does an admirable job of covering a broad range of transpersonal topics from energy healing to yoga to past life regression. I personally learned a great deal from Dr. Leskowitz' chapter on Franz Mesmer and how Mesmer's approach to healing was actually closer to energetic healing than what is practiced in modern clinical hypnosis. Stanley Krippner's chapter on altered states healing in tribal cultures was very impressive in the scope of its research and the sensitivity of its treatment of the subject. This is a book that spiritually oriented therapists will turn to time and again. Ground breaking.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction to Transpersonal Healing Possibilites, March 27, 2004

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Jack Elias (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Transpersonal Hypnosis (Hardcover)

Dr. Leskowitz has collected a group of articulate and credible sharings from experienced practitioners and researchers in the field of consciousness exploration, including the good doctor himself! They each present theoretical basis and actual case history application of a variety of healing possibilities from regression therapy to spirit release to yoga and energy work. Very inspiring!
I will be recommending this book to students of my own Transpersonal Hypnotherapy courses.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent, valuable book, March 22, 2004

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Alexander Docker (Cathlamet, WA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Transpersonal Hypnosis (Hardcover)

Dr. Leskovitz's excellent book examines and presents information on the increasing interest among therapists (and all those with spiritual leanings) in the use of Transpersonal ideas and theories of human energy systems. It treats consciousness as a fundamental quality of reality: a unifying phenomenon that is not merely a by-product of brain activity. It discusses hypnosis as a means to accessing these transpersonal, meta-ego states of being, and how to develop therapeutic pathways that incorporate these. This book very clearly, and without any use of pompous language, transcends the materialistic, ego-centered focus that dominates the present paradigm ruling the ideas of reality. It will be of immense value to those who are looking to break out of the dull and the mechanical; to move forward and upward into infinitely more subtle realms of consciousness and into the very positive, authentic experiences that such will invite into life. It is of interest not only to therapists, but to all who seek meaning above and beyond the mundane. The ideas and methods here described may be the road less traveled at the moment, but they could become the main highway, as human awareness slowly rises (if it is permitted to do so in our chaotic world) to its true potential.