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Kay Thompson, one of the great hypnotherapists of the 20th century, was renowned for her linguistic brilliance, as an international teacher of hypnosis, and as one of the most gifted students of the legendary psychotherapist, Milton Erickson. Her unique abilities with the language of hypnosis entranced listeners throughout the world.
In many ways, Kay Thompson was a pioneer; her contributions are among the underpinnings of contemporary clinical hypnosis and are important resources for modern psychotherapy. Her teachings are presented in this book both directly, with explanation and example, and indirectly, woven throughout her workshops and lectures in stories, clinical vignettes, metaphors, and demonstrations. Unique to this volume is an accompanying audio CD with recordings of some of her most memorable teaching sessions.
This is the first time that Thompson's teaching legacy, both published and oral, has been collected for publication. Most of the material in this volume, including transcriptions of her original lectures and workshops, has never before been available in print. Commentaries from some of the field's most eminent therapists, including Bernhard Trenkle, Camillo Loriedo, Sidney Rosen, Ronald Havens, Roxanna Erickson Klein and Betty Alice Erickson provide interesting and insightful perspectives on Thompson's work.
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Good Reading for Ericksonian Hypnotherapists.......2005-06-18
Kay Thompson was one of the great hypnotherapists of the 20th century and one of Milton H. Erickson's most gifted protégés. She was a trainer of international renown and a brilliant hypnotherapist whose artistry with language patterns amazed her pupils and colleagues. The Art of Therapeutic Communication chronicles her professional life through her papers and presentations, transcripts of seminars, commentary on her life and work, and tributes by contemporaries. The CD that accompanies the book records ten of Thompson's "live" presentations. Thompson's collected works cover hypnosis, hypnotic language patterns, trance, pain management, hypnosis in dentistry, metaphor, utilization, and ethics.
Thompson began her career as a dentist, and studied under Dr. Milton H. Erickson in 1953. She went on to become an internationally recognized speaker and trainer in medical hypnotherapy. She participated in the Erickson Foundation as a lecturer, workshop leader, and panel member. Colleagues admired her linguistic skills, integrity, ethics, and spirituality. She spoke and taught on the power of imagination, motivation, and belief as essential elements in the practice of psychotherapy.
Her unusual style of delivering suggestions became her trademark. Her "word play" was engaging, trance-inducing, and confusing all at the same time, yet somehow always to the point, speaking to the mind via several levels of meaning. She employed puns, double-entendres, rhyme, and alliteration in spell-binding ways.
Thompson advised using the client's own interests and common, every-day occurrences as metaphors for suggestions about problem-solving and personal growth. She debunked the common expectation that hypnosis requires relaxation, suggesting that hypnotherapists give clients the latitude to experience trance idiosyncratically. Thompson reminded her audiences to see the client's point of view and guide the client to tap into his or her own potential.
The text features methods and demonstrations for pain management, describing how she helped clients prepare for surgery by teaching them to control anxiety, pain, and even bleeding. Thompson spoke on how hypnotic pain management can help cancer patients and the terminally ill. She described her own experiences in pain control during rhinoplasty, dermabrasion,root canals, and an auto accident in which she had broken bones.
You can read her discussions on amnesia, time distortion and post-hypnotic suggestion. There are several papers on hypnosis in dentistry, in which Thompson explains the relationships among psychology, hypnotherapy and dentistry. She was an expert in approaches to bulimia, tongue thrust, gagging reflex, bruxism, hemophilia, root canals, dry sockets, and temporal mandibular jaw dysfunction.
Kane and Olness poured devotion and painstaking effort into this book, locating, examining, and transcribing hours of tape-recorded interviews, panel discussions, and seminars. I enjoyed this book, consuming it like a smorgasbord of ideas. With a notebook at my side, I madly scribbled notes to myself about how I could adapt some of Thompson's methods in my own work. In my home library, I have a shelf reserved for favorite hypnotherapy books. This book will go on that shelf. I know I will turn to it again and again, seeking Thompson's advice for difficult cases. Through The Art of Therapeutic Communication, Kay Thompson continues to teach, to heal, to motivate, and to inspire.
Pattie Heyman, LICSW.......2005-05-02
This fascinating book is an inspiration, and an outstanding learning tool for therapists and those interested in hypnosis,and this extraordinarily profound woman.
A love story you need to read.......2005-03-10
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The Art of Therapeutic Communication
( The collected works of Kay F Thompson)
Edited by Saralee Kane and Karen Olness
Publisher Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN 1904424287
This is a love story. It is a story of a love of words and a love of communicating them in a positive and healthy way. More than that it is a love of people and the story of a woman's dedication to helping all those around her for whom she felt compassion and love - her fellow men. No monument could provide a more fitting or lasting tribute to Kay Thompson than this skilfully executed and beautifully presented book
I felt sorry for the girl who delivers my post when she came down my front path bearing the parcel which contained this book. To say that it is a hefty and weighty tome is an understatement, almost 600 pages long and with an accompanying CD.
I too groaned under the weight of it and just wondered whether the reading would be as heavy as the book.
I was very pleasantly surprised.
It proved to be not only a joy but also a privilege to be allowed to explore the pages of this book. It was fascinating to have insight into the thought and work of Kay Thompson who was arguably one of the world's greatest hypnotherapists of the twentieth century. She was an intellectual, a lively brain, but also had the linguistic capability to be able to share her thoughts and ideas with a wide audience. Indeed, if she hadn't made the grade as a therapist I am sure she would have made a great novelist or communicator in other ways..
Regular readers of my reviews will know that I am an ardent fan of the work of Milton Erickson. You can imagine the delight I felt when I read of Kay that she was one of his most gifted students. They shared a joy of communication, a gift for language. Their work is professionally intoxicating and compulsive reading.
Much of our thinking and methodology has been built upon foundations laid originally by Kay Thompson. She has done much to develop and expand the whole subject of contemporary hypnosis.
The book, a testament to her life and work, deals with the subject of therapeutic communication from a variety of angles - direct teaching, comment, explanation, example and is at all times fascinating as well as informative.
On the one level we get excellent instruction and advice on how to approach and conduct our own therapy sessions to achieve the greatest benefit. On the other hand, and in a very subtle way, we are also taught much about ourselves and the way we think and live. It is a book of intense humanity not a scientific tome alone.
Throughout all of the book we are being taught sensitively yet firmly, how to conduct our own personal lives ! It is a book of inspiration and interpretation. It is a book with both breadth and depth which covers the complexity of the subject in an immensely readable way. It is a book written with care, concern , understanding, respect and total integrity, and not a little love.
Speaking of love, I just have to quote a poem by Roy croft included in the book. It is sensational !
It sets out to describe the teaching of Erickson and the shared values and thoughts of his followers.
I love you, not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me you bring out.
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart,
And passing over all the foolish, weak things you can't help dimly seeing there,
And for bringing out into the light all the beautiful belongings
That no one else had ever looked quite far enough to find.
I love you because you are helping me to make,
Of the lumber of my life, not a tavern but a temple,
And of the words of my everyday,
Not a reproach but a song.
I love you because you have done more than any creed could
Have done to make me good,
And more than any fate could have done to make me happy.
You have done it,
Without a word,
Without a touch,
Without a sign
You have done it by being yourself
Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.
I wish that I could have been one of the pupils that Kay guided through in their early years. I feel that I would have been uplifted by her excitement and commitment, captivated by her strength of personality and personal warmth and dazzled by the depth of her knowledge and the brilliant way in which she could share this with others.
It is a great book about a great woman written by two great authors who, through their careful editing and selection of material and contributors etc, have almost allowed us to travel within our minds so that we can experience the power that was, that still is Kay Thompson.
I finished the book feeling that I had met her, spoken with her and most certainly been affected by her in a very positive sense.
I will make a sweeping statement but it is one that will be true, I know, and that is I will never be the same therapist, maybe even person, again. I will have been strengthened, guided and enlightened by this experience and feel most if not all readers will feel the same. As Akira Otani says within the book, " and her words will go on".
Practically the book covers all aspects of a therapist's work. There are fascinating and very valuable sections on Therapy with Pain and an excellent section on Hypnosis in Dentistry which I found most helpful.
Inductions and the nature of trance are dealt with at length, including commentary on clinical work and demonstration.
As I said earlier, this book is about humanity, and I was delighted to see included a section on Ethics in caring, so often omitted from such texts. You will enjoy, too, " Why do we learn about hypnosis?"
"Well, if you can do something good for them, Do it!" Was her catch phrase and could well be the catchphrase of each and every one of us who endeavour to tread in her footsteps.
I have no doubt that if there was an Oscar for Hypnotherapy books of 2004 this one would come storming home as an undisputed winner, but it wouldn't be Kay standing up there making tearful thanks to her family, friends, patients, baby goldfishes. This would be drowned by OUR acclaim of a woman who has been and will continue to be a beacon for us to follow, an example to emulate. Sincerity breeds sincerity. Love breeds love.
As you read this book sense the sincerity, bathe in the love and bring part of her professionalism and expertise into your lives and practice.
Do I recommend this book ??
I most certainly do!!!!!! Oh yes, by the way, the experience in being in the company of this wonderful lady and teacher was made possible by the inclusion of a CD, secreted right at the back of the book. Crown House - I salute you. Another astonishing achievement I feel.
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Sylvester Ahola has played the trumpet on 2,000 records and been part of 50 orchestras and jazz bands. This comprehensive study charts his role from the growth of jazz through the Depression to the development of commercial radio. With a comprehensive discography of all his known recordings. Photographs.
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I Shall Not Die! A Personal Memoir
Hart N. Hasten
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Mark My Words! A Personal History
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"I Shall Not Die!"
These four, simple words, taken from Psalm 118, have formed the backbone of an extraordinary life, lived by a remarkable man.
From his youth in a Polish shtetl, to life in America, where he became a phenomenal business success and influential communal leader, Hart N. Hasten is a man driven by truth, hard work, devotion to family and community, and above all, commitment to Judaism and G-d.
These principles, lovingly imparted by his parents, saw Hart Hasten through
unimaginable sufferings. Fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland to Khazakhstan, the Hasten's eked out an existence of day-to-day survival. In spite of the starvation, deprivation and persecution, Hart and his family survived, only to learn of the decimation of virtually the entire Jewish population of their hometown Bohorodczany, including the extended Hasten family.
With steadfast commitment to the words 'I Shall not die!', Hart emigrated to the United States, and diligently worked his way towards professional and personal success. From his astonishing talents in business management, to his equally impressive gift for communal fundraising; from building a loving, Jewish home to forging relationships with Israeli politicians and international statesmen, Hart Hasten's life is one of purpose and achievement, courage and direction, that has led him to the Knesset, to the White House, and to friendships with people who have shaped the course of modern history. Most notable was his intimate friendship with former Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin.
Through all this, Hart N. Hasten has never compromised his principles, his heritage, nor his religion, and has shown that not only would he 'not die', but he would 'live', in the fullest and most glorious sense of the word.
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Therefore Choose Life!.......2004-06-19
Hart N. Hasten was one of two noted speakers who addressed the 31st annual assembly of the Indiana Jewish Historical Society gathered in the state capital in 2003 and there he gave a telling report on his life story, the summary detailed in "I Shall Not Die." Although Steven Speilberg's Shoah Foundation has captured on video, sixty-three interviews of European-born Jewish survivors, who continued their lives in Indiana, there are only two Jewish Holocaust survivor memoirs printed hereto by national publishers and by those who settled in the Hoosier state. (The late Rose Gutterman Zar of South Bend published "In the Mouth of the Wolf" in 1983; and hopefully Eva Mozes Kor of Terre Haute, a twin, who survived the Mengele experiments and who founded C.A.N.D.L.E.S., `Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments' museum that was destroyed by arson in 2003 will also publish her courageous story.)
Hasten's story is unique in that his parents successfully fled with their children to Kazakhstan, and unlike others (see Arnold Herskovics' series, "Another Chapter in my Life" Illiana News in the IJHS Collections of the Indiana Historical Society) who were imprisoned for crossing the Soviet border further north, and Rose Zar who survived in Germany of all the scant hiding places.
Most contemporaries, familiar with decades of international telephone communications, centuries of regular postal delivery and of late instant Internet messaging will have to stop and imagine how it was to be cut off, as were Hasten, from all contact with family and friends back in Poland during WWII. Furthermore none of us can imagine the horror of his returning home after the war and realizing the vastness of the Nazi genocide; a civilization had vanished.
If Kazakhstan was a strange port for this Orthodox Jewish family, so too was Indiana, but here our tall, handsome and spirited survivor flourished, and the Hasten Hebrew Academy of Indianapolis is named in his honor. Although Hart is proud of his celebrity contact and connections, most of us choose heroes much closer to home and those who are much less in the limelight. Hasten's much heralded September relationship with the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin however close, isn't his finest hour, Hart's personal contributions to his home community large and small are what make this man extraordinary. Indianapolis, The Jewish Studies Program at I.U. Bloomington, and all of Indiana Jewry as well as Jerusalem have benefited from Hart Hasten's benevolence. This is the biography of that person.
A GREAT BOOK.......2003-02-01
There are many books written by Holocaust survivors. There are many books written by Holocaust survivors who made it big in America. There are also many books written by Holocaust survivors who made it big in America and became great Jewish philanthropists. But this is the first book that includes all of the above with an intimate, up close look at the various Israeli politicians who we read about every day in the newspaper.
Like the author, Menachem Begin is also my hero -please note- I DID NOT SAY MY IDOL!!! (see the chapter on Mar Begin) The closest I ever came to Begin was paying my respects at his gravesite in Jerusalem. The author's recollections of his many visits with Begin was much more than an ersatz substitute, it was a balanced visit into Begin the man- something that all his biographers never got quite
right (with the possible exception of Harry Hurwitz's biography.)
The chapter "Rubbing Shoulders" was arguably the best in the book. The story of the American supporter of Ariel Sharon who tried to convince him to go on a diet may have been the funniest story I have ever read. I laughed so hard my wife thought I was cracking up!!!
If you love Israel and her wonderful people- buy this book now
If you don't love Israel- buy this book anyway. It may just change your mind.
a must read.......2003-01-17
a story of how true faith in the Al-mighty brought one man in contact with leaders of our generation. a story of how Hitler's and Stalin's plot to destroy the Jewish People will never succeed.
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