The Pregnant Man
And Other Cases from a Hynotherapist's Couch
by Deirdre Barrett Dr.Barrett is a hypnotherapist, and most of her cases are routine. Here she has chosen seven cases which were not routine, which "unfolded like plays". The title story is that of a man who was hypnotized by another hypnotist to give up smoking. The hypnotist had asked the man to picture himself as he would like to be, and the patient had pictured himself as a pregnant woman. He had gone home, and every day, he had continued to picture himself pregnant, in effect hypnotizing himself. His body then began to resemble that of a pregnant woman.
The book mixes the anecdotal stories with backround about the psychology of disorders that the patient may be suffering, history, and Dr.Barrett's own life. The seven stories span twenty years, and so some of the medicine is out of date. For example, Multiple Personality Disorder, MPD, is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID.
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