This book describes an entirely new way of conducting hypnotherapeutic interventions - Stephen Gilligan's generative trance. The first generation of trance work, the traditional hypnosis that still holds sway in most places, considers that both the conscious mind and the unconscious mind of the client are, to put it bluntly, idiots. So trance work involves first 'knocking out' the conscious mind and then talking to the unconscious mind like a 2-year old that needs to be told how to behave. Milton Erickson created the second generation of trance work. He approached the unconscious as having creative wisdom and each person as extraordinarily unique. Thus, rather than trying to programme the unconscious with new instructions, Erickson saw trance as an experiential learning state where a person's own creative unconscious could generate healing and transformation. At the same time Erickson, for the most part, carried the same low opinion of the conscious mind. Thus, Ericksonian hypnosis looks to bypass the conscious mind with indirect suggestions and dissociation and depotentiate it with confusion techniques. Stephen Gilligan's third generation of trance work sees this negative attitude toward the conscious mind as unnecessary and ultimately unhelpful. Creative action requires a skilful conscious mind to realize the potential of the unconscious mind. The conscious mind is needed to set and maintain intention, to sense and evaluate multiple pathways of possibility, to properly name and represent experience, and to organize actions in a sequential and linear way. William James used to say that the unconscious mind is the horse and the conscious mind is the rider: it's the relationship between the two that is most important. This book shows you how to harness that relationship for a much more powerful and effective therapeutic intervention.

他是不是理直气壮地认为自己理应左右你的人生和一举一动？为了取悦他，你有没有放弃过对你来说非常重要的活动，断绝了与亲朋好友的来往？他是不是一贯瞧不起你的观点、感受，贬低你的成就？一旦惹他不快，他会不会冲你大吼大叫、放狠话，或者干脆躲到一旁生闷气？你是不是“如履薄冰”，一遍遍地想着怎么说，深怕一句不慎惹他动怒？他是不是说翻脸就翻脸，让你无所适从？你是不是经常觉得心乱如麻、干了蠢事，或是配不上他？他是不是一个醋坛子，有极强的占有欲？婚姻生活中，他是不是认为只要有错，你就是罪魁祸首？
如果你的答案有一半以上“是”，那么你遇到的多半是个“控制型男人”。他靠不断贬低女人来获取掌控权，推卸责任，在情感关系中占据主动。久而久之，你的自尊心土崩瓦解，极易抑郁、焦躁，有些人甚至会出现身体上的症状和不良反应。
在这本书中，苏珊·福沃德博士将帮助你了解控制型男人所具有的破坏性思想，你该如何打破固有模式、治愈创伤、重获自尊，以及如何重建关系或是开始一段全新而健康的感情。

《登天之梯：一个儿童心理咨询师的诊疗笔记》里的所有故事都是真实的，但为了确保匿名性和保护隐私，我们修改了身份细节。儿童的名字也都做了修改，因为他们的姓可能会让人辨明其身份。尽管做了必要的修改，但每个案例的必要元素都尽可能详细地记录下来。例如，对话都是根据回忆、笔记、磁带或是录像来加以记录的。令人感到遗憾的是，相比我们所知道的事例，这些故事不过是沧海一粟罢了。在过去的十年里，我们儿童创伤学院的临床医疗组就治疗了一百例以上的儿童，他们曾亲眼目睹过自己的父母被谋杀的场面。我们也面对过成百上千的儿童，这些儿童早期在收容所里，或是在父母那儿，或是在监护人那儿受到了非常严重的忽视。我们希望本书里所讲述到孩子们，和那些有着相似命运的其他许多人，他们身上所体现出的力量和精神，能够从这本书的字里行间传达出来。

Reasons to Stay Alive is about making the most of your time on earth. In the western world the suicide rate is highest amongst men under the age of 35. Matt Haig could have added to that statistic when, aged 24, he found himself staring at a cliff-edge about to jump off. This is the story of why he didn't, how he recovered and learned to live with anxiety and depression. It's also an upbeat, joyous and very funny exploration of how live better, love better, read better and feel more.

《瞬变:如何让你的世界变好一些》内容简介：无论在生活中，还是在工作中，我们都会遇到各种改变。股市会发生恐慌，企业会有兼并，即便聚焦到个人，我们也无时无刻不面对着各种改变：大多数人都会告别单身最终步入婚姻的围城之中，拥有他们的家庭和孩子。所有这些，都是改变。然而，对生活或者工作中的一些改变，我们却常抱以抗拒的态度。老师们常感叹顽皮的学生“冥顽不化”，企业管理者们常慨叹改革收效甚微，思想家们常感慨世界因为一成不变而腐朽。在世界一流的组织行为学家、畅销书《粘住》的作者希思兄弟看来，阻碍我们进行改变的重要原因，是我们希望变革的理智思考与已经存在惰性的情感需求不合拍，两者互相牵制使得我们难以做出改变。人类的情感与理智，就如大象和骑象人：骑象人希望走向自己的目的地，但存在惰性的大象却不听使唤仍在原地踯躅不前。
那么，我们又该怎样才能让自己内心的那头大象听话呢？希思兄弟从人类的行为出发，通过翔实有趣的案例，告诉我们进行改变的关键要素：为改变找到一个一目了然的目标；为改变找到一个闪光点；为你的改变找到一个情感化的理由。