Empowering Dialogues Within

Immersed with wisdom, Empowering Dialogues Within is a unique client workbook filled with narratives, case vignettes, and exercises, providing mental health professionals with a broad-based toolkit to help clients become more self-aware. It is filled with instructive case examples and practical advice for building clients? confidence, wisdom, and sense of wellness and a foundation for lifelong strength and growth.

Vignettes Figures and Exercises ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 Discovering the True Self 1.1

Psychological Pioneers 1.3

Corporate Self 1.6

Development of Higher Selves 1.9

Postconventional Integration and Transcendence 1.12

Recognition of Higher Selves 1.14

Chapter 2 Exercises for Empowering the Self 2.1

Finding the Self through Memories 2.2

Empowering the Will 2.4

Synthesizing the Self 2.7

Recognizing and Remembering Spirit 2.11

Chapter 3 Identifying Personality Parts 3.1

Psychological Pioneers 3.3

Origin of Inner Parts 3.4

Corporate Self 3.9

Naming Parts to Return to the True Self 3.18

Chapter 4 Exercises for Identifying Inner Parts 4.1

Personae—Adaptable Personalities 4.3

Distracters—Fixed Personalities 4.4

Directors—Hidden Personalities 4.7

Emotional Entities—Instinctual Personalities 4.10

Identifying Inner Images 4.11

Identifying Names for Parts and Selves 4.19

Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts 4.23

Chapter 5 Engaging Personality Parts with Dialogue 5.1

Mind as Metaphor 5.3

Material Mind and Dialogue 5.4

Steps to the Dance of Dialogue 5.10

Dialogue in a Child’s Mind 5.20

Review and Practice Exercises 5.25

Chapter 6 Therapists’ Guide to Empowering Dialogues 6.1

Therapy through Dialogue 6.3

Coaching Aids 6.6

Counseling Emotional Entities and Abreaction 6.11

Comparison to Related Approaches 6.15

Chapter 7 Historical Context and Possible Proofs 7.1

Forerunners to Therapies of Parts and Selves 7.2

Philosophical Context and Contributions 7.7

Psychoneurological Evidence 7.9

Appendix A Terminologies for Parts and Selves A.1

Appendix B Development of Higher Faculties B.1

Appendix C Psychotherapy Approaches Referenced in the Text C.1

Glossary G.1

References R.1

About the Author AA.1

Author Index AI.1

Subject Index SI.1

"…Empowering Dialogues Within may be the answer to your prayers (or to your questions to your Higher Self). Even though the reader's basic approach to therapy might not be psychosynthesis, I felt the author did an excellent job of including psychosynthesis with other ideologies. I would highly recommend this book to any practicing therapist/counselor...I loved this book." (AAP News; January 2009) Kate Cohen-Posey is Director of Psychiatric & Psychological Services in Lakeland, Florida. She is the author of Making Hostile Words Harmless: A Guide to the Power of Positive Speaking for Helping Professionals and Their Clients, Brief therapy Client Handouts (both published by Wiley) and How to Handle bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies. A dynamic presenter, she has a passion for teaching professionals a method that helps people find their way out of mental anguish by going deeper inside.

"This important book reaches out to mental health clinicians representing many schools of psychotherapy with detailed case examples. It is a must-read for all therapists who wish to more fully understand the integration of the personality through inner guidance."
—John H. Parks, MD, Steering Committee Member, Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis

A Practical and Inspirational Workbook that Combines the best of Effective Brief Therapies to Empower Clients to Explore Their Strengths and Remove Obstacles to Growth and Inner Peace.

Immersed with wisdom, Empowering Dialogues Within is a unique client workbook presenting narratives, case vignettes, and exercises that provide mental health professionals with a sensitive and broad-based toolkit to help clients become more self-aware as they build life skills and improve their relationships-both internally and with others.

Chapters cover the following:

• Discovering the True Self
• Exercises for Empowering the Self
• Identifying Personality Parts
• Exercises for Identifying Inner Parts
• Engaging Personality Parts with Dialogue

Filled with Instructive case examples and practical advice for working with clients-from a variety of psychotherapeutic treatment modalities-this warm and inviting guide will aid professionals in building their clients' confidence, wisdom, and sense of wellness and provide a foundation for lifelong strength and growth.