| Foreword | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Conceptual Framework | |
| Paving the therapy road with good intentions | p. 3 |
| The eyes of depression | p. 3 |
| The costs of depression | p. 3 |
| Amplifying and de-amplifying awareness | p. 4 |
| On amplifying biology as the problem and drugs as the solution | p. 5 |
| Some of what we know about depression | p. 7 |
| We can walk and chew gum | p. 9 |
| Some of what we know about treating depression with psychotherapy | p. 9 |
| The illusion of empirically supported treatments | p. 10 |
| The reality of empirically supported psychotherapies for depression | p. 12 |
| Is clinical hypnosis an empirically supported treatment? | p. 12 |
| Re-thinking our priorities | p. 13 |
| Applying hypnosis in psychotherapy | p. 15 |
| States, traits, and clients don't care | p. 18 |
| Suggestions for how to think about hypnosis | p. 20 |
| Why use hypnosis for treating depression? | p. 21 |
| Does hypnosis work? | p. 22 |
| Practical considerations in hypnotic treatment design | p. 25 |
| Not all hypnosis is the same | p. 25 |
| Doing hypnosis versus being hypnotic | p. 26 |
| Doing art and doing science | p. 26 |
| The art of design | p. 27 |
| Hypnosis and the targets of treatment | p. 28 |
| Where to begin? | p. 29 |
| Building therapeutic momentum and response sets | p. 29 |
| Symptoms as intervention targets | p. 30 |
| Risk factors as intervention targets | p. 33 |
| Relating to the context | p. 35 |
| Diminish weakness or amplify strength? | p. 36 |
| Getting started using hypnosis | p. 36 |
| Introducing hypnosis to the client | p. 37 |
| Choosing one's hypnotic style | p. 38 |
| Clinical Applications | |
| Ambiguity and the vulnerability of believing | p. 43 |
| Ambiguity | p. 44 |
| Recognizing and tolerating ambiguity | p. 46 |
| Flexibility | p. 46 |
| Teaching the ability to discriminate | p. 47 |
| Discrimination strategies | p. 48 |
| Hypnotically facilitating the ability to recognize and tolerate ambiguity | p. 50 |
| Structuring hypnosis sessions for recognizing and tolerating ambiguity | p. 53 |
| Describing the strategy | p. 54 |
| Watching it work: The case of Bob | p. 57 |
| Focusing on the future | p. 61 |
| Hopefulness | p. 62 |
| Hurting the people we want to help | p. 63 |
| Plugging holes in awareness: Structuring goal-oriented therapy | p. 64 |
| Hopefulness and a solution orientation | p. 65 |
| Hypnotically building expectancy | p. 66 |
| A sample transcript of a "building expectancy" session | p. 73 |
| Putting it all together | p. 76 |
| Clearly, you can/can't have it all | p. 77 |
| Where's the control? | p. 78 |
| Discriminating controllability | p. 81 |
| External versus internal aversive, uncontrollable stimuli | p. 81 |
| Expectations and victimization | p. 84 |
| Expectations, helplessness, control, and anger | p. 86 |
| Primary and secondary control | p. 88 |
| Hypnosis and the art of secondary control | p. 88 |
| Assessing controllability | p. 89 |
| Hypnosis session transcript: Is it in your control? | p. 90 |
| Creating possibilities | p. 93 |
| Coping styles and the right to choose ... wisely | p. 95 |
| Depression and undermining the self | p. 95 |
| Coping with life | p. 96 |
| Avoidant coping styles | p. 97 |
| Ruminative coping styles | p. 98 |
| Active coping styles | p. 100 |
| Hypnosis and decision-making | p. 102 |
| Frames of reference | p. 104 |
| Hypnosis and exploring options | p. 104 |
| Exploring options in context: The case of Consuelo--a session transcript with commentary | p. 108 |
| Feeling stuck and having resources | p. 121 |
| The case of Mike: Breaking patterns of depression | p. 123 |
| Introduction | p. 123 |
| Background of the session with Mike | p. 124 |
| The verbatim (unedited) transcript | p. 124 |
| Follow up to the session with Mike | p. 145 |
| Final comments | p. 147 |
| Hypnosis and suggestions for prevention | p. 149 |
| The weakness in strength | p. 150 |
| Reconsidering the message we send | p. 150 |
| Prevention at the individual client level | p. 151 |
| Hypnosis: Focus on prevention | p. 152 |
| Prevention at the interpersonal (social) level | p. 156 |
| Teach foresight | p. 156 |
| Treat spouses and families | p. 156 |
| Teach children | p. 157 |
| Teach people | p. 157 |
| Final thoughts | p. 158 |
| References | p. 159 |
| Useful information on the Internet | p. 169 |
| Depression | p. 169 |
| Hypnosis | p. 170 |
| Supplemental materials from Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D. | p. 171 |
| Videotapes | p. 171 |
| Audiotapes/Compact Discs | p. 172 |
| Ordering information | p. 172 |
| Index | p. 173 |
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