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This is a book about how psychotherapy may be used to cultivate the courage and freedom to love. In a time when love seems to be fading and hatred and despair rising, it presents love as a skill and force that can heal and invigorate, reconnect and guide, calm and encourage. In Gilligan's self-relations approach, psychotherapy is a conversation about competing differences. When these differences are treated violently or indifferently, problems arise; solutions develop when the skills of love are practiced. Those practical skills are described here, with an emphasis on post-conventional ethics, Buddhist and aikido principles, and ideas of human sponsorship.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Thank goodness for a voice that has such clarity of expression and passion behind the writing. I'm only sorry that it took me this long to find it - I bought it because I was curious about self-relations psychotherapy - I am totally convinced by this work and am using it in my practice to great and profound effect upon myself and upon my clients. The methods within lend me clarity of thought and abundant flexibility and lends the client my abosolute presence and connection as well as the opportunity to develop a felt sense of who they really are and what they really want and ultimately to allow themselves to love themselves, perhaps for the first time. For anyone interested in developing a practice that gets to the heart of matters I can't recomment it highly enough. It is worth reading at least three times.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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After you think you know what hypnotherapy is all about, this book will give you a larger perspective into ourselves and how the skills and concepts of hypnosis, aikido, and human sponsorship can help us.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
his voice will go with you
4 Dec 2003
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I don't believe enough can be said about the high quality of this book. Obviously you have to be already within a certain frame of reference in order to jive with this material, but if you are somebody who practices counceling or therapy and who is interested in the landscape where depth psychology meets the art of brief therapy, I would invite you to go nuts about his materpiece.
Gilligan beautifully weaves his model of Self-Relations into a serious conversation as to the dynamic that exists between and within both the client and the therapist. He points to ways we can embody ourselves as we help our clients reembody their lives, finding the balance that allows them to gently touch their center.
This book can be a meditative read in which you dwell within certain sentences and let your wisdom open up and sneak out in surprising new ways.
It really is a masterpiece. But don't purchase this book if you are looking for a practical self-help book or a precise manual in applying psychotherapy in various clinical contexts...
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Theories to think about, learn, feel, and contemplate
26 Jan 2000
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Stephen Gilligan is a loving, playful, and sometimes fierce therapist, who is highly skilled in what he does with clients, and in his teaching as well.He is also a tremendously talented hypnotherapist, and a pretty nice guy to boot!
I think that his book offers a great deal of wonderful ideas for people to contemplate and try out. I sometimes suggest it to my clients to read so that they have a clearer idea of how I am hoping to help them.You do not need to be a professional to get a lot out of this book.
A wonderfully insightful book for healing
23 Aug 1998
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After you think you know what hypnotherapy is all about, this book will give you a larger perspective into ourselves and how the skills and concepts of hypnosis, aikido, and human sponsorship can help us.
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