Elizabeth Brooker

Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment (eBook, ePUB)

Using Cognitive Hypnotherapy and EMDR

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment: Using Cognitive Hypnotherapy and EMDR offers a much needed and different approach to this issue, using two psychodynamic therapies which work to bring about rapid and long-lasting change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429873393
• Artikelnr.: 54784430

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Brooker is an experienced professional musician, qualified hypnotherapist, EMDR practitioner and neuro-linguistic programmer. She has an MA in Music Psychology from the University of Sheffield and a PhD doctorate from the University of Leeds where the focus of her research was reducing anxiety experienced in music performance.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

List of figures, tables and appendices

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I Performance anxiety and the use of psychodynamic interventions

1 Exploring performance anxiety



Challenging the dogma of preferred therapies in current use



2 Cognitive hypnotherapy



Changing negativity and anxiety



3 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing



Transforming trauma and the emotional mind



PART II Nine case studies

4 Reflective case studies



Method and procedure



5 ADHD, perfectionism and fear of failure



A link to music performance anxiety?



6 Scepticism regarding treatment for piano performance



Why randomly selected therapy may not work



7 An adult beginner's fears



The spectre of a piano examination



8 Letting others down in clarinet performance



Ghosts from the past



9 Trauma when singing in a performance situation



The past need not predict the future



10 Anxiety in the sports arena



The one-incident trigger



11 IBS, anxiety at work and in the sports arena



A life-changing experience post-therapy



12 Confidence in presentations



Hypnotherapy makes it so



13 Presentations no longer feared post-therapy



An exciting experience



14 Future directions





The future is not set in stone

Index

Figures, tables and appendices

Figure 1.1



The four components of anxiety (based on Miller and Chesky, 2004)



Table 4.1



Case conceptualisation and therapeutic change methods



Appendices





5.1 Self-Report Questionnaire pre-therapy treatment





5.2 Self-Report Questionnaire post-therapy treatment





7.1 Log of musical experiences post-therapy treatment

Rezensionen

Elizabeth Brooker's book of case studies provides further indications that attachment ruptures underlie severe forms of music performance anxiety. It is encouraging to observe that therapists are now seeing beyond the overt symptoms of performance anxiety to the core issues that promote faulty schemata. This revised focus directs practitioners to broaden their therapeutic pallets to include treatments such as EMDR and clinical hypnotherapy that directly address these core problematic factors.

Dianna Kenny, Professor of Psychology/Music, The University of Sydney

This book makes a strong case for the use of psychodynamic therapies in the treatment of performance anxiety across a range of domains including music, sports and public speaking. The concisely written reflective case studies, which are informed by years of therapeutic practice and underpinned by academic research, highlight the uniqueness of people's experiences with anxiety and the potential of cognitive hypnotherapy and EMDR as interventions. The book is a must read for researchers, practitioners and the general public who wish to understand more about the role of dynamic therapies in the treatment of anxiety.

Dr Alinka Greasley, Associate Professor of Music Psychology, University of Leeds

'A fascinating book providing an in-depth account of the effective use of hypnosis and EMDR to tackle music performance anxiety. Highly recommended reading for performers, teachers and therapists to enhance understanding of the anxiety condition and the revelatory results of the therapy, even after a few therapeutic sessions. '

Dr Renee Timmers