Trance and Trauma: A Recovery Manual for PTSD Therapists, Veterans, and their Families, by Michael Mcgee, MA, DCH

This book is an excellent how-to manual for effectively treating PTSD with hypnotherapy. It is invaluable for countering the effects of traumatic experience for veterans and other individuals, including their family members, and society as a whole. It offers ground-breaking concepts to both new and experienced therapists who work with PTSD, and to veterans who are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.

In addition, it's the only book available that specifically gives veterans tools to motivate themselves using effective hypnotic treatment of PTSD; and, in the same vein, it is uniquely geared toward educating friends and family members. With the holistic perspective, this revolutionary work provides readers with a greater awareness of the combat veteran's experience, particularly in relation to "purpose" and "meaning,"... all within a new paradigm for our times-that which is known as, "the transpersonal approach."

During a time when so many war vets have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, the author's approach to PTSD becomes invaluable. Readers with this disability, and their families, will find Trance and Trauma to be beneficial because it...

Provides understanding about the specific effects of trauma and issues facing survivors and their families

Includes current statistics from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom

Supplies information on the effects of PTSD on family members and significant others

Provides information on the relationship between trauma, PTSD, and physical health

Is developed in a simple and concise format for busy therapists who provide services to individuals who have experienced trauma

Contains information on the variety of stressors veterans of war may have encountered, and how such stressors may be reduced or eliminated in treatment

Is a work which will influence the future of hypnotic treatment of PTSD

Is a session by session guide in the treatment of PTSD through hypnotherapy