Rage Reduction

Streaming video - 2015

"We therapists are far more identified with our patients' pain and suffering and loss than we are with the other side of the split, that is, rage, revenge, perpetration...Those feelings, like any other difficult affect, need to be processed through in the therapy."- David Calof Clients in the process of recovery from childhood abuse go through a necessary rageful stage. Expressing these affects is an important part of healing, but action-oriented techniques are impractical in many therapeutic settings. In these two videos David Calof discusses and demonstrates hypnotherapeutic techniques for rage reduction, and for working productively with hostile parts of self in a dissociative client. Released 1994. Topics Rage reduction v...s. anger management Contraindications for doing rage reduction Contracting for limits and safety procedures Guided imagery techniques in rage reduction Time distortion techniques in rage reduction Recognizing and neutralizing injunctions against anger more