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Title
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Stories for the Third Ear
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A Norton Professional Book
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Lee Wallas
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Creator
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Wallas, Lee
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:29:06Z
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2003-03
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1985
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:29:06Z
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Date Issued
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1985
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Abstract
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Here are nineteen stories offered by an experienced hypnotherapist. Each is labelled for its specific use, e.g., A Story for the Treatment of Phobia. The therapist in Wallas' approach needs first to establish rapport with and trust from the client. The story works then because it is metaphor, and rapport makes the metaphor available to the client. The metaphor defuses resistance, since the story is once removed and offers not commands but suggestions. These stories are spontaneous spoken stories born within the therapy situation. So Wallas will regularly write at the end of the introduction to these stories the following story told itself. The stories in this book are finally meant not to be reproduced by other therapists, but rather to encourage others to tell their own stories in their own way. These stories, perhaps four or five pages in length or shorter, are simple, but not as simple as Aesopic fables. I find the stories engaging, though beyond fable length and complexity. Thus Porky the Porcupine learns through a friendly turtle that people are afraid of him just as he is of them. A child afraid of the Green Dragon in his play room learns that the dragon is zippered, and that there is a little boy inside that has been playing frightening tricks on him. The overwound alarm clock thrown into the trash is rescued by a little girl who finds it beautiful and takes it to the clockmaker for repair.
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Identifier
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393700194
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5144 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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W.W. Norton & Company
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New York
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Subject
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RC489.S74 W35 1985
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Lee Wallas
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole