Recrafting a life : solutions for chronic pain and illness / Charlie Johnson, Denise Webster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Charlie (Charlie E.)

Contributor:

Webster, Denise.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain--Treatment.

Pain.

Brief psychotherapy.

Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects.

Chronic diseases.

Pain--psychology.

Psychotherapy, Brief--methods.

Chronic Disease--psychology.

Medical Subjects:

Pain--psychology.

Psychotherapy, Brief--methods.

Chronic Disease--psychology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

Chronic pain and chronic illness can be overwhelming for both patients and the clinicians who treat them. Patients must navigate an unfamiliar psychological and physiological landscape with few (initially) recognizable resources. These challenging circumstances, in turn, require that the clinician develop an integrated skill set that addresses the patient's painful physical symptoms while effectively dealing with the feelings of hopelessness, defeat, and fear that inevitably accompany the experience of chronic pain and illness. Recrafting a Life: Solutions for Chronic Pain and Illness directly meets this complex challenge by presenting a new treatment approach that creatively incorporates powerful Ericksonian hypnosis interventions with effective solution-focused therapy techniques. Resource focused and rooted firmly in self-care theory, this integrative approach enables the clinician to effectively reduce physical pain and suffering while successfully addressing the psychological issues associated with a chronic condition.

Engaging the reader with the transformational metaphor of Robinson Crusoe, the authors describe the five stages of recrafting a life through which patients pass in the journey to transcend their chronic condition. The clinician can utilize the dynamics of this framework to construct therapeutic strategies that best fit each stage, substantially improving treatment outcomes. The rich case examples that illustrate this process are accompanied by specific hypnotic and clinical interventions. Readily accessible for both clinicians and their patients, the clinical material in Recrafting a Life: Solutions for Chronic Pain and Illness is supplemented by a virtual "self-care toolkit," offering interactive scales and inventories, solution-finding interview interventions, self-hypnosis protocols, self-care experiments, and healing homework assignments.

Contents:

Part I Theory

2 Becoming a Worthy Companion: Clarifying and Refining a Philosophy of Care 21

3 Caring and Self-Care 35

4 Creating a Meaningful Life 59

Part II Therapy

5 Stages of Recrafting a Life 85

6 The First Meeting: Exploring the Landscape: The Solution-Focused Approach 115

7 Solution Building 141

8 Recrafting Consciousness: Clinical Hypnosis for Pain and Chronic Illness 177

9 Suggestive Therapeutics: Hypnotic and Posthypnotic Suggestions to Treat Chronic Pain and Illness 221

10 Caring for the Caregiver 263

11 Experiments in Self-Care 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1583913564

OCLC:

48132360