Hypnotherapy for Troubled Children

HYPNOTHERAPY FOR TROUBLED CHILDREN Dr. Robert A. Duke In this authorative and accessible book, the courageous educator-psychologist describes an extraordinary treatment for children who fail at school. Hypnotherapy, the method he advocates, cuts across time and cost-factors to change, quickly and fruitfully, disabling characteristics such as poor concentration, shyness, tics, stuttering and delinquency. It helps children to "let go" of their tension and negative self-images so that reeduca-tion can begin. Out of this twenty-five years of experience as school principal, administrator and psychiatric counselor to thou¬sands of youngsters, Dr. Duke analyzes the effectiveness of current counseling strate¬gies. Then he illustrates how hypnotherapy can overcome obstacles and help children toward real achievements. In conclusion, he restates his astonishing test results using hypnosis to alter the behavior of maladjusted school pupils so thatthey become success oriented. A most orig¬inal and valuable book for all those who deal with or care about children and are con¬cerned about why our schools fail them and how they can succeed-with illuminating commentaries by John Holt (How Children Fail) and Stanley Krippner (Head of the Seybrook Institute). Dr. Duke has received his Ph.D. from London University and is the creator of the widely used Duke Intelligence Test. Besides numerous articles he has written the popular book How to Lose Weight and Stop Smoking Through Self-Hypnosis, and is director of the American Society of Clinical and Research Hypnotists.