This book is a scientifically current integrative and practical guide for understanding clinical hypnosis and its place within a new health care paradigm. Blending four original short stories with a treatise it alternates narrative prose with health science discourse to create a framework for embracing systemic emotional and relational elements that lie beyond diagnosis medication surgery and psychotherapy. Following the stories of four characters the authors establish an empirically-grounded conceptualization of the mind then demonstrate how practical applications of therapeutic hypnosis can help readers use individual and family resources in health and healing. Clinicians will learn to improve their care by embracing emotional relational and narrative elements that powerfully affect health beyond diagnosis medication surgery and psychotherapy. Further health care educators and policy makers will find inspiration that enriches professional training. . Language: English