Description: Rubin Battino is a professor emeritus of chemistry and a licensed counselor specializing in very brief therapy, hypnotherapy, and guided imagery.
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Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy.
Chapters include more than a dozen case studies with transcripts and commentary. Readers will learn how to use an adapted model of Remens healing circle to prepare patients for surgery, techniques in guided imagery, and additional approaches for enhancing palliative care.
Extensive appendices provide a wide variety of valuable tools that psychotherapists can use with clients concerned with end-of-life issues.