Family Hypnotherapy

Reviews the book, Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy by Michele Ritterman (1983). In this book the author presents a ground-breaking approach to conceptualizing family interactions and to intervening therapeutically with families. Because of her new perception of family interaction, Ritterman is able to provide new understanding of many underlying causes of destructive family communication and to offer valuable techniques to change it. This book is an important contribution both to the field of family therapy and to the field of clinical hypnosis. Indeed, this is the first tome to be devoted to family hypnotherapy. All students of family therapy will benefit greatly from this book, regardless of the' general therapeutic model used. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)