Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past

by Nicholas E. Brink

Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy goes beyond the traditional objectivist approach of uncovering the what of a client’s dysfunctional thinking by helping client and therapist understand why the client thinks in a dysfunctional manner. This unique work demonstrates how this thinking can be uncovered through dreamwork, analytic hypnotherapy, ecstatic trance, and other spontaneous trance experiences such as the use of imagination, free association, and guided imagery. Utilizing hypnotherapeutic techniques, the author shows how clients can reframe these thoughts to achieve a healthier, more functional way of thinking. Replete with case studies and practical guidance, this text will help therapists take clients beyond a simple resolution of their problems and offer an avenue to greater personal growth, maturity, and creativity.

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Published March 18, 2019

About the author

I received my PhD in educational psychology from UCLA in 1970 and had a practice in clinical psychology in Lewisburg, PA for 25 years. I used hypnosis as a major tool in providing psychotherapy. In 2007 I discovered ecstatic trance from the writing of Felicitas Goodman and since then it has become a central interest and central to my writing. I have offered workshops on ecstatic trance around the country and have a regular monthly workshop here in Central Pennsylvania.