Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment

<p><em>Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment: Using Cognitive Hypnotherapy and EMDR</em> offers a much needed and different approach to this issue, using two psychodynamic therapies which work to bring about rapid and long-lasting change.</p><p></p><p>Using nine reflexive case studies, the author examines two little used interventions, cognitive hypnotherapy (CH) and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR). The basic theories of cognitive anxiety and the emotions that underpin this condition are explored. The principles and protocols of CH and EMDR are explained, and how these psychodynamic therapies are adapted to effect permanent change.</p><p></p><p>The first book to examine these treatments for this condition,<em> Transforming Performance Anxiety Treatment </em>will be of interest for practitioners and therapists in training, as well as educators, professionals, and therapists working within competitive sports.</p> <p>Contents</p><p></p><p>List of figures, tables and appendices </p><p></p><p>Preface </p><p></p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p></p><p><strong>PART I Performance anxiety and the use of psychodynamic interventions</strong></p><p></p><p>1 Exploring performance anxiety </p><p>Challenging the dogma of preferred therapies in current use</p><p></p><p>2 Cognitive hypnotherapy </p><p>Changing negativity and anxiety </p><p></p><p>3 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing </p><p>Transforming trauma and the emotional mind </p><p></p><p><strong>PART II Nine case studies</strong></p><p></p><p>4 Reflective case studies</p><p>Method and procedure</p><p></p><p>5 ADHD, perfectionism and fear of failure </p><p>A link to music performance anxiety?</p><p></p><p>6 Scepticism regarding treatment for piano performance </p><p>Why randomly selected therapy may not work</p><p></p><p>7 An adult beginner’s fears </p><p>The spectre of a piano examination</p><p></p><p>8 Letting others down in clarinet performance </p><p>Ghosts from the past</p><p></p><p>9 Trauma when singing in a performance situation </p><p>The past need not predict the future </p><p></p><p>10 Anxiety in the sports arena </p><p>The one-incident trigger </p><p></p><p>11 IBS, anxiety at work and in the sports arena </p><p>A life-changing experience post-therapy</p><p></p><p>12 Confidence in presentations</p><p>Hypnotherapy makes it so</p><p></p><p>13 Presentations no longer feared post-therapy </p><p>An exciting experience</p><p></p><p>14 Future directions</p><p>The future is not set in stone </p><p></p><p>Index</p><p></p><p>Figures, tables and appendices</p><p></p><p>Figure 1.1</p><p>The four components of anxiety (based on Miller and Chesky, 2004)</p><p></p><p>Table 4.1</p><p>Case conceptualisation and therapeutic change methods</p><p></p><p>Appendices</p><p>5.1 Self-Report Questionnaire pre-therapy treatment </p><p>5.2 Self-Report Questionnaire post-therapy treatment </p><p>7.1 Log of musical experiences post-therapy treatment </p>