What if you could take your most painful memories, or your biggest regrets, and render them harmless?
And you would no longer be hurt, bothered or haunted by them?
That is precisely what groundbreaking British psychotherapist Anthony Prendergast has been doing for years with his clients and is what he will empower you to do for yourself in this book. He will provide you with new tools that will end the harm these memories can cause.
The book will slowly guide you in how to do the core process of therapeutic reimagining. The theory and practical side of how to do it build chapter by chapter, illustrated by nine client stories, written by the clients themselves. Their stories explain how they used the process to overcome feelings of shame, guilt, fear, anxiety, eating disorders and even medically unexplained physical symptoms.
You too can use this revolutionary new process to change your past and transform your future.
Therapists and other mental health professionals reading the book will appreciate the extensive appendix at the back of the book which goes even more deeply into the therapeutic aspects of the process and the theory of how therapeutic reimagining works.
This book was insightful. It covers how our past experiences shape the beliefs we have about ourself, and how imagining how an alternative, healthier version of these experiences can rewrite those beliefs.
The book is easy to follow, though it took me a few attempts to apply the techique succesfully. The stories it draw upon was particularly helpful for this. Reading about the experiences of others gave me ideas how to reimagine my past traumatic experiences when I got stuck.