Like other expressions of art, a metaphor derives its ability to affect and influence us because of its underlying structure. The masterful storyteller thinks in ways that naturally create the parallels, connections, and discoveries that become utterly compelling to the listener. Therapeutic Metaphors: Helping Others Through the Looking Glass provides you with that structure, an explicit and practical format for creating impactful stories for change.

A great many books and articles have been written about Milton Erickson's hypnotic work. But little attention has been paid to the tremendous portion of this therapeutic work that made little or no use of formal trance states. In Phoenix: the therapeutic patterns of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. the authors address themselves to those aspects of Erickson's therapeutic work that did not rely on the use of formal trance states. Using Erickson's own verbatim case descriptions, those patterns that are characteristic of his approach are not only identified for you, but are described as sequences of internal and external behaviors that can be replicated by anyone. This book will not make you Milton H. Erickson, but it will make it possible for you to reproduce in your own work many of the therapeutic skills that made Erickson perhaps the most consistently successful psychotherapist we have known.

The EMPRINT Method is intended to change your mind about what is possible for you to achieve. By the time you finish reading the first chapter, you will be aware of the possibility of acquiring a wide range of new skills, talents, and aptitudes. By the time you finish the final chapter, you will have the tools you need to master an accelerated skill acquisition process--the EMPRINT method--that you can use to turn those possibilities into accomplishments. The purpose of this book, then, is to provide you with tools that will enable you to identify and acquire (or transfer to others) desirable human aptitudes.

With Know How, learn how to go from wishing to having—turning possibilities into realities. Learn the thinking processes, perceptions, and behaviors that naturally lead people to success and fulfillment in many of life's most challenging and potentially rewarding areas—loving relationships, parenting, and real choices about work, exercise, eating, and more.

A ‘Tweens series for anyone be-tween nine and ninety.