Bill O'Hanlon

For many years, mental health professionals have attended the seminars of Bill O'Hanlon. The author and co-author of over a dozen books has captivated audiences with his informative, humorous, and interactive teaching style. An Invitation to Possibility Land takes participants a step further. In the context of a week-long training limited to 10 participants, O'Hanlon moves to a new level of experience that cannot be duplicated in his large workshops. The author shares riveting stories, metaphors, interchanges with participants, transcripts of therapy sessions during the week, and many more teaching points that allow this book to read like a novel. The book explores many current issues facing therapists in today's climate such as how to make therapy briefer and how to work with abuse victims. It offers the reader a chance to experience, along with the participants, an in depth training where subjects such as hypnosis, brief, Ericksonian, solution-oriented, and narrative therapies, and the use of language, are explored. Welcome to Possibility-Land.

Even if you've discovered from the talk shows and the self-help books that you're afraid of intimacy or prone to self-destruction because of a miserable childhood, has it really helped? If not, it's time for action; it's time for Love Is a Verb. Here is a fresh, new approach to relationships. The book goes beyond analyzing relationships to changing them, even if one partner isn't interested. Using a solution-oriented approach, humor, stories, and good common sense, Bill O'Hanlon and Pat Hudson (marriage counselors and husband and wife) show readers how to: break free of old patterns in days and weeks, not months or yearsquickly and easily solve relationship problemsimprove their sex lifeincrease feelings of love and closenessget over past hurts Lively, upbeat, and future-focused, Love Is a Verb shows readers how to change today's dreams of more romance and happiness into tomorrow's reality.

In a radical departure from traditional marital therapy approaches, the authors use the power of validation and solution-oriented strategies to break marital deadlocks. Rather than becoming mired in blame and analysis, they help couples find problems that can be solved, move toward collaboration and accountability, and change destructive patterns. Their approach—hopeful, positive, and often humorous—has been well received in their workshops for couples.

"With brief therapy finally getting deserved interest, the time is ripe for an overview. Cade and O'Hanlon state that they 'decided to collaborate on a book that would summarize the main elements, the ideas, principles, attitudes, and techniques associated with brief therapy.' Read this work--you'll be glad they did, and you did." --John H. Weakland

03 9780393700312 15 9780393700312 11 BC 1 A01 Bill O'Hanlon O'Hanlon, Bill Bill O'Hanlon Bill O'Hanlon, is a founder of Possibility and Inclusive Therapies and is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including Out of the Blue, Becoming A Published Therapist, and Quick Steps to Resolving Trauma. He is a Diplomate, Board Member, Fellow and Master Therapist in the American Psychotherapy Association and was awarded the "Outstanding Mental Health Educator of the Year" in 2001 by the New England Educational Institute. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit his website for more information: BillOHanlon.com. 00 Bill O'Hanlon's Possibility Land http://www.billohanlon.com/ 01 eng 194 MED105000 2.3 06 02 02 "This is an essential primer of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic psychotherapy. [ ] O'Hanlon provides threads that crystallize practical patterns useful to clinicians at all levels of expertise." - Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation 08 02 "O'Hanlon's books are always filled with precious clinical nuggets." The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Newsletter 99 02 US 07 03 01 https://cdn2.wwnorton.com/wwnproducts/NRTPRO/2/1/9780393700312/9780393700312_72.jpeg 06 03 01 https://cdn2.wwnorton.com/wwnproducts/NRTPRO/2/1/9780393700312/9780393700312_300.jpeg W. W. Norton & Company 01 W. W. Norton & Company US 08 19870117 02 WORLD 01 9.3 in 01 236.22 mm 02 6.2 in 02 157.48 mm 03 0.6 in 03 15.24 mm 08 0.677 lb 08 0.308 kg National Book Company, Inc. 800 233 4830 800 458 6515 01 http://www.wwnorton.com 02 ROW 02 Y MD 23 38 01 02 WWNorton LONG 23.95 USD US 02 02 WWNorton LONG 33.95 AUD AU 06 5030670141531 John Wiley & Sons 05 GB 01 19870325 06 5030670141531 John Wiley & Sons 05 AT BE CY EE FI FR DE GR IE IT LU MT NL PT SK SI ES 01 19870325