The Couple Who Became Each Other : Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist

Calof, David L., Simons, Robin

ISBN 10: 0553096680 / ISBN 13: 9780553096682

Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Couple Who Became Each Other : Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553096680
• ISBN 13: 9780553096682
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In a practice spanning more than twenty years, Calof has helped clients use the power of their own unconscious to gain insights, solve problems, and heal physical and psychological wounds - sometimes in dramatic ways even he could not foresee. Each chapter in this book reads like a whodunit, taking us on the search for clues and solutions to patients' mysterious symptoms.
We learn that, to the unconscious, mind and body are one, as we watch a woman cleanse her body of precancerous cells through the use of mental imagery. We learn that family communication is hypnotic, as we see three sisters pass fifteen pounds from one to another - until they are freed from the "burden" of caring for their parents. And in Calof's accounts of his pioneering work with dissociative disorders, we glimpse the many selves we all carry within us.
As David Calof makes clear, trance is not the exclusive province of hypnotists, but is a natural phenomenon we encounter daily. The magic is not in the hypnotherapist, but in each one of us.

From the Back Cover

ut feelings, hunches...Call it what you like, we all possess unconscious wisdom.  And as the stories in this book make clear, that wisdom has the power to heal.
A married couple trade identities in trance--and end the battles that have pushed them to the brink of divorce.
A patient in deep trance endures a five-hour surgery without anesthesia, even stopping her bleeding on cue.
A woman who is going blind regains her sight when she confronts the knowledge she has been trying not to "see."

These are just a few of the fascinating true stories told by family therapist David L.  Calof, one of the leaders of modern hypnotherapy.  In a practice spanning more than twenty years, Calof has helped clients use the power of their own unconscious minds to gain insights, solve problems, and heal physical and psychological wounds--sometimes in dramatic ways even he could not foresee.  His revealing book offers remarkable insights into th