[Neurons] Announcement of the newest book from Neuro-Semantics

Mon Aug 8 13:37:33 EDT 2022

From: L. Michael Hall

drhall at acsol.net 

The Newest Book 

META-THERAPY

It's been a long time since I have directly and exclusive written about
psychotherapy.  The last book was The Structure of Personality (2001).  Then
after spends two decades on the subject of coaching (Meta-Coaching) and
writing 16 books on that subject, I have now returned to the subject of
therapy.  Thank Dr. Carl Lloyd for that, he kept urging me to do that!  You
can see his Foreword below.

But I did not just want to write anything about therapy and much less a
something that would merely repeat what's been written.  I wanted to write
something that would add to the field, something that would be significantly
different as to invite a new way of perceiving it.  So I wrote Meta-Therapy:
Psychotherapy in the Meta Place.

On the back cover is this:

Psychotherapy occurs in a very special place inside of people-in the meta
place.  Here you find the dynamic meta-structures which comprise a person's
background knowledge, beliefs, values, understandings, reference points,
meanings, assumptions, prohibitions, memories, imaginations, etc. Meanings
which define a person's sense of reality and well-being.

Here meta structures function inside us as if they were instincts-
automatic, unconscious programs for thinking, feeling, acting, and relating.
Yet they differ from instincts in that you have access to them so you can
manage and control them. You can do your own 'programming' for healing,
well-being, health, effectiveness, productivity, resilience and much more.

Meta-Therapy will take you on a journey to the inside meta place giving you
an understanding of how human life is inevitably lived inside-out.  You will
learn how to access the meta place, how to use observation, questions,
metaphors, etc. to introduce transformative change.  You will learn how to
negotiate 'problem definitions' and solutions in the meta place.  How to use
presuppositional questions and comments to implicitly set new frames of
meaning to enrich and empower a person.

Without a rich understanding of the dynamic meta system within a client, a
therapist's interventions will be superficial and deal mostly with symptoms,
rather than the overarching causes.  Discover how the meta place is
organized in yourself and your clients.  As Meta-Therapy repeatedly
emphasizes "the person is never the problem, if there's a problem, the frame
is the problem," it frees you to look for and transform those frames.

         META-THERAPY- Meta Place Therapy

Foreword by Dr. Carl Lloyd
4

Preface
6

PART I: Therapy 101

1. The Meta Place
13

2. Introducing Meta-Therapy
26

3. The Therapist's Meta
34

4. Therapy's Meta-Language
43

      Meta-Talk 

5. Thinking that Creates Meaning
55

     The Problems Therapy Solves

6. Ego-Strength
65

7. The Meta-Levels of Change
73

8. The Structure of Trauma
82

      Undoing the Damage

PART II: Going Meta
90

9. Meta Dynamics
91

      Meta as perspective, 

10. The Meta System
99 

      Meta as Qualifier and Transformer

11. Meta's Inside Journey
110

12. Meta Dimension -
121

         Going In for a Deep Dive    

13. Meta Antagonism
131

       The presence of a counter-system 

PART III: Meta-Change Techniques
138

14. The Therapy Session
139

15. Eliciting Experiences
148

       Inducing States and Meta-States

16. Reversing Trauma
158

        Movie Rewind Pattern

17. Changing Meta-Meanings
167

        Belief Change

        Dragon Slaying/ Reframing

        Change Personal History

18. Unlearning
178

       Undoing False Learnings

19. Executive Change Decisions

        Intentionality change
196

         Decisions change

20.  The Meta Core
209

              Resilience 

              Drop Down Through

21. Re-Strategizing Strategies
223

22. Therapeutic Healing Ideas
231

Appendices

A. Meta-Levels, Dimensions
238

B. Content Reframing                   242

C. Diagraming in Therapy
243

D. Principles of Change
245

E. The Matrix Model
247

F. The Structure of Personality
249

G. Languaging: Linguistics of

     Psychotherapy
250

Bibliography
251

Author
256

Neuro-Semantics
258

FOREWORD

Carl Lloyd, Ph.D., D.Min.

At last!  After writing 69 books on various clinical application topics and
interests, L. Michael Hall has written an excellent book which brings his
expert knowledge and clinical wisdom to clinical counseling and therapy.
Meta-Therapy as comprehensive as it is easy to apply to your own clinical
practice.  Dr. Hall also has provided many clinical case examples through
which you can learn about and apply therapy using the Meta-States Model.

As you can imagine, having provided therapy, and taught in universities
since 1975, and conducted both out-patient psychotherapy, and served as a
therapist and administrator for in-patient hospitals, I've read hundreds of
books on therapy.  I have studied mental health (and mental illness) from
multiple theories and different perspectives, such as psychology, sociology,
anthropology, clinical practice, therapy, and research (exploring dozens of
theories and models like CBT, BMOD, Systems Theory, EMDR, Mindfulness,
Psychoanalysis, Humanism, etc.).  Even with all these theories and models, I
wish I had been exposed to Meta-Therapy many years ago.  This would have
helped me to clarify my clinical foci and given me great tools through which
to reliably serve client needs in a timelier fashion.

>From the perspective of being a life-long learner, or as my mom called me,
"a professional student," even with my wealth of experience and studies, I
found that this book stimulated my hunger to know more about the meta place
and how meta-states work.  Meta-levels act like mirrors or echoes for the
person seeking help.  The therapist can use meta-states to empower the
client to reflect upon their own experiences, beliefs, emotions, and
behaviors. This helps clients to use self-reflexive reality checks.  For
example, Meta-Therapy helps the client to understand his or her own values,
set personal goals, problem solve real or potential blocks and implement
desired changes in the real world.

Going meta (i.e., developing and using meta-level skills and reflections) is
one of the fastest and most reliable paths to obtaining practical wisdom
(i.e., the ability to track multiple levels of self- and other-awareness).
Going meta is something that only humans can do because language gives us a
way to label ideas and talk about them, and our frontal lobes give us the
capacity to reflect and apply.  Going meta also helps us to address the all
too human predisposition to default to confirmation bias (i.e., our tendency
to dismiss evidence that doesn't confirm our biases and assumptions).  Using
Meta-States, Meta-Therapy also gives us the skills to address many behaviors
which might appear to reflect client resistance.

As I read this text, I felt like I was on a journey of awe and mystery,
where complex concepts were captured and simplified, resulting in key skill
sets.  Think of it: Imagine taking a trip through the ultimate universe
where interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships are the primary foci.
Michael captured my attention and challenged my perspectives, exploring the
way I view the world and the experiences of my clients, while exploring a
great many intentional Meta-State details.  I came away challenged in ways I
have not been in many years.

Michael learned therapy first as a client and then as therapist. Shortly
after we met in 1975, Michael went through a divorce that he found
devastating to his career, hopes, and dreams.  After devouring many books
and experiencing therapy, he learned to go inward to his meta place.  There
he learned about limiting beliefs and expectations. I had the privilege of
counseling him at that time and out of our shared clinical experiences, he
has become a deeper thinker with a robust passion for helping others deal
with trauma both effectively and quickly, and additional to thinking well,
he also writes really well.  As a therapist and person, he walks the talk.

Michael knows the landscape of Meta-States like no other since he invented
the model.  Now, as an excellent therapist and a world-class trainer, you
can learn from his experience.  I, for one, hope this is just the beginning
of a series of books addressing the applications of Meta-Therapy.  Our
clients deserve the best, and therapy using Meta-States can ensure that you
provide superior interventions in a timely manner. You owe it to yourself to
read and apply this text today.

Dr. Carl Lloyd

                                               Tenured Professor, Emeritus
(George Fox University)

                                                                       Level
IV Therapist (Discover Counseling)

Tigard, Oregon

Now Available

Meta-Therapy is now available as a PDF book on The Shop.  Later it will be
available in book form and from what several have said about the book, you
will want to get the book!  Why?  Because it is a book to read multiple
times.  Geraldine has excitedly said "every Meta-Coach has to have this book
to understand coaching better, Neuro-Semantics better, and the differences
between coaching and therapy."  So, if you buy the PDF, when the book is
published and available, you can buy it for $10 less than its retail price. 

https://www.neurosemantics.com/shop/page/4/ 

NSP: Neuro-Semantic Publications

 <http://www.neurosemantics.com/> www.neurosemantics.com 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

ISNS Executive Director

P.O. Box 8

Clifton Colorado 81520 USA

(970) 523-7877

drhall at acsol.net  

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