A DISCOURSE WITH OUR GENES

The Psychosocial and Cultural Genomics of Therapeutic
Hypnosis and Psychotherapy
Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Ph.D.

Integrating key concepts from biology, medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, Ernest Rossi has forged a revolutionary new paradigm that encompasses mind, body, and spirit. Rossi's new world view-- Psychosocial and Cultural Genomics -- has profound implications for understanding the human condition. He describes how we can all learn to facilitate our evolving consciousness with numinous experiences of Art, Beauty, Truth, and Happiness in our daily creative work of building a better brain.

Rossi begins by tracing his own recent dramatic journey from stroke victim through rehabilitation to full recovery. On this journey of self-healing, where he was both passenger and guide, Rossi's full psychotherapeutic repertoire was called upon to facilitate activity-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity to optimize his recovery. As he notes in the closing sentence of this opening chapter: "This takes us quite beyond my personal story to a deepening exploration of the co-creation between consciousness and nature in human experience that is the main subject of this book."

As a pioneer in clinical psychobiology, Dr. Rossi shares his latest neuroscience concepts of a unified approach to Mind-Body Medicine and the practical methods self-healing in everyday life.

Published by Editris s.a.s. Edited by Salvatore Iannotti, M.D.
ISBN: 978-1-932462-35-7    347 pp/hardcover    $45.00

DREAMS, CONSCIOUSNESS, SPIRIT

The Quantum Experience of Self-Reflection and Co-Creation,
Third Edition
Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Ph.D.

This third edition of a modern classic on dreams and the evolution of awareness, identity and spirit in a young woman introduces a new quantum theory of consciousness, self-reflection, and healing based upon university research.

Praise for the first edition:
"An outstanding book. Expanding Jung's technique of active imagination, Rossi demonstrates how conscious involvement with one's dreams can facilitate new levels of awareness. Dreams are shown to be analogous to autonomous states of creative experience.... Rossi elaborates on recent research showing that during dreaming new protein structures are being synthesized in the brain, and changes in emotion, imagery, and awareness result from conscious assimilation of this psychosynthetic experience. In dealing with ways of initiating such experience, Rossi is imaginative and original. His clinical approach is sound. His case illustrations are excellent, and his work will excite professionals and lay readers alike."
--Peter C. Lynn, Library Journal

"A fine work. It is practical and idealistic, concrete and abstract, wise and extremely well-written."
--Calvin Hall, U.C. Santa Cruz

ISBN: 978-1-891944-99-4 • 2000 • Softcover, 285 pages • $32.95

THE 20-MINUTE BREAK:

Reduce Stress, Maximize Performance, Improve Health and Emotional Well-Being Using the New Science of Ultradian Rhythms
By Ernest Lawrence Rossi, Ph.D., with David Nimmons

New discoveries over the past two decades have shown that the body periodically gives us important physiological clues about how to stay energetic, healthy, and productive. In The 20-Minute Break, Rossi and his coauthor David Nimmons, translate this research, particularly studies that have led to the new science of ultradian rhythms (those bodily rhythms occurring more than once a day), into practical strategies for recognizing the body's natural signals for optimizing creativity, performance and healing in everyday life.

According to the theory presented here, our mind-body systems need a natural period of healing and rejuvenation for about 20 minutes every 90 to 120 minutes. Often we neglect the signs telling us that rest is needed, recharging instead with caffeine, sugar, nicotine -- short-term fixes that set the stage for fatigue, poor performance and long-term health and emotional problems. The 20-Minute Break presents strategies for overcoming such destructive habits, for breaking patterns of stress and tension, and for capitalizing on the body's natural periods of creativity, alertness and healing.

“A practical manual for optimizing mind-body communication in everyday life by synthesizing ancient and new information about our natural body rhythms.”
--Candace Pert, Former Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the NIMH

“This book is good science and good medicine. It will change the life of many readers, and could have revolutionary consequences for everyone on how we work, play, and lead our daily lives.”
--Larry Dossey, M.D.

ISBN: 978-0-87477-585-3 • 1991 • Hardcover, 210 pages • $19.95

MIND-BODY THERAPY:

Methods of Ideodynamic Healing in Hypnosis
By Ernest L. Rossi, Ph.D., and David Cheek, M.D.

It has long been recognized that mental processes affect physiological states, but pinpointing the exact mechanisms has taken longer. Integrating cutting-edge research in psychobiology with innovative techniques of mind-body healing (the ideodynamic approach), this volume will be essential reading for all clinicians who work with clients with psychosomatic disorders, stress-related problems, sleep disorders, and other problems in which mental and physical processes are both involved.

Each of the book's ten major sections is divided into chapters on Theory, Clinical Practice, and Research. The introductory sections on theory carefully outline new models of psychobiology that are the basis of mind-body therapy, psychoneuroimmunology, and stress-related disorders. Major psychobiological concepts are illustrated with newly created images highlighting the major pathways of mind-body communication and healing.

The chapters on clinical practice contain hundreds of engaging case reports from Cheek's 40 years of clinical work. These vivid cases illustrate how ideodynamic signaling forms a bridge between the verbal and physiological levels in the therapy of stress-induced disorders. Rossi and Cheek present numerous practical techniques using a creative three-step approach to therapeutic hypnosis: (1) access the psychobiological sources of problems; (2) reframe them therapeutically; (3) ratify the therapeutic gain. Throughout the text, boxed outlines summarize the exact words and approaches used by the authors in specific clinical situations ranging from pain management to sexual dysfunction.

Chapters on research suggest intriguing lines of investigation involving the new frontier of mind-gene-molecule communication and its implications for healing practices. The authors propose 64 ideas for new research projects for readers interested in contributing to this emerging area of investigation.

Ultimately, Mind-Body Therapy guides and empowers readers to find the keys to their own well-being and health. Therapists of all persuasions will be well informed by Rossi and Cheek's many clinical illustrations of converting symptoms into signals, and psychological problems into creative resources.

"Rossi has done it again! He has compiled the works of one of the most creative elder statesmen in the field of hypnosis. . . . Clinicians who use hypnosis for exploration in psychotherapy or with psychosomatic disorders, pain, medical problems, surgery, or sleep disorders will definitely want this book. In its synthesis of clinically practical information, theory, and topics for research, this is one of the finest volumes to be published on hypnosis. It will be stimulating to clinicians, academicians, and researchers alike."
--D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D.

"This is a combined venture of a researcher and clinician who link theory and research with practical applications. A wealth of data that belongs in library of anyone involved with psychosomatics and hypnosis."
--Charles B. Mutter, M.D., Past President, American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

ISBN: 978-0-393-31247-8 • 1988 • Hardcover, 519 pages • $29.95

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