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Book SynopsisEmotional Transformation Therapy: An Interactive Ecological Psychotherapy describes an entirely original approach to psychotherapy that drastically accelerates therapeutic outcomes in terms of speed and long-term effects. It includes an attachment-based interpersonal approach that increases the impact of the therapist-client bond and is amplified by the precise use of the client''s visual ecology. This synthesis is called Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT). Steven R. Vazquez, PhD, discusses four techniques that therapeutically harness the client''s visual ecology. When the client is asked to view a maximally saturated spectral chart of colors, visual feedback provides immediate diagnostic information that helps the therapist to regulate emotional intensity or loss of awareness of emotions. A second technique offers an original form of directed eye movement that facilitates relief of emotional distress within minutes. A third technique uses peripheral eye stimulation to rapidly redu
Trade ReviewI am glad the Steven R. Vazquez has finally put his innovative approach into book form…I admire his determination to explore, through years of trial and error, all aspects of visual brain stimulation and, from those experiments, to create original theories, methods, and machines…His journey and his mind are fascinating. -- Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D., developer of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, President of the Center for Self Leadership
Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction Safety Issues Chapter 1: Seeing the Light Chapter 2: How Interpersonal Contact Changes the Brain Chapter 3: A New Vision of Color Chapter 4: A New Eye Movement Psychotherapy Chapter 5: Shedding New Light on Emotional Regulation Chapter 6: A New Angle on Inner Parts Chapter 7: Lighting Up the Brain Chapter 8: Illuminating Depression and Bipolar Disorders Chapter 9: Transforming Anxiety Disorders Chapter 10: Lighting Up the Dark Side of Trauma Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C References Index About the Author
