Claire Frederick, M.D., was a psychiatrist, who taught, consulted, and presented papers nationally and internationally. She was a co-author, with Maggie Phillips, Ph.D., of Healing the Divided Self: Clinical and Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Conditions. She received multiple awards from the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Shirley McNeal, Ph.D., has been a psychologist in private practice, who also presented papers, taught, and consulted nationally and internationally. She has received awards for her writing from the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis and the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.

Foreword to the Classic Edition by Shirley McNeal Foreword by Stephen Gilligan Foreword by John G Watkins and Helen H Watkins Preface 1. Ego-Strengthening: The Therapeutic Tradition 2. Ego-Strengthening: The Classical Hypnotic Tradition 3. Ego-Strengthening: The Ericksonian Tradition 4. The Ego-State Model in Hypnotic and Nonhypnotic Psychotherapy 5. The Utilization of Time as a Vehicle for Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening 6. The Ego: Its Composition 7. Internal Self-Soothing and the Development of the Self 8. Inner Love: Projective/Evocative Ego-Strengthening with Inner Resources of Love 9. Good Fences Make Good Neighbours: Internal Boundary Formation 10. Other Projective/Evocative Techniques 11. Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Performance Anxiety 12. Ego-Strengthening in the Treatment of Complex Clinical Syndromes 13. Ego-Strengthening with Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders I: Overview, Stabilization and the Repair of Developmental Deficits 14. Ego-Strengthening With Posttraumatic and Dissociative Disorders II: Uncovering and Integration 15. The Strengthened Ego and the Transpersonal Self in Living and Dying Appendix References