Synopsis of the book

The Pig Cook – or the Reinvention of Coaching and Therapy – The Application of the Mental Space Psychology presented in 12 case histories

By Lucas Derks, Adrian Schweizer and Rainer Wawrzik

Estimated scope: 280 Pages incl. literature

Completion: Ready

 

Information about the authors

Dr. Lucas Derks

Activity: Independent researcher, trainer and developer of interventions for coaching and psychotherapy. Since 1986 he has been working internationally as a lecturer at universities and in the private sector. Author of 8 books and 30 articles, and since the turn of the millennium he has been producing teaching videos in the field of applied psychology. Board member of The Society for Mental Space Psychology, responsible for research and teaching.

Expertise: Analysis of complex psychological topics and designer of psychological experiments. Preparation of the findings in practical working formats. Production of documentaries on psychological topics. Teaching the theory and practice of psychotherapeutic interventions at the college and university level. All this in three languages: Dutch, English and German.

 

Adrian Schweizer

Activity: Executive coach, business mediator, lawyer and university lecturer. Implementation of coaching, mediation and organizational development in Europe and the USA. Coach of industrialists, investors, entrepreneurs, board members and managers. Successful mediation with a value in dispute of up to €300,000,000. Project manager of the merger of several universities to form the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. For over 20 years, he has been conducting a 36-day university training course to become an executive coach. Writing books and professional articles on the topics of conflict resolution, negotiation, coaching and mediation.

Expertise: Pioneer in Europe in the fields of coaching, mediation and organizational development. Conducting complex coaching and mediation. Trains according to a meta-model that can be applied to coaching, mediation and organizational development. Combines the findings of linguistics, psychology and neuroscience. Conveying complex content so that it is understandable, but not trivial.

 

Rainer Wawrzik :

Activity: Executive Coach, Business Coach, Department Manager and Scrum Master and Software Developer with a focus on Maineframe. Implementation of coaching, mediation and organizational development. Project manager of large-scale IT projects in the banking industry. Change agent in the introduction of agile working methods. Lecturer in the implementation of the university training as an executive coach. Co-author of books and articles on the topics of conflict resolution and coaching.  Ambassador of The Society for Mental Space Psychology.

Expertise: Implementation of complex coaching sessions. Many years of management and leadership experience. Develops new methods in the context of Mental Space Psychology and Hypnosystemics. Many years of expertise in software design and system design of complex problem solutions and mass data processing processes.

 

Core message of the book:

The psychoanalysis of Freud and Young is based on the exploration of the client's imagination. In the 30s of the last century, the research of people's dreams, images and visions was considered too complex by academic psychology and was no longer pursued further. Instead, the focus was on the analysis of visible behavior (behaviorism) and correct thinking (cognitive behavioral therapy). Since then, the assumption has been that trained behavior and correct thinking can dissolve bad feelings in the long run. Cognitive behavioral therapy and its further developments still dominate the field of therapy and coaching today. The "Dark Ages" psychological interventions, which academically do not care about people's imagination, continues.

In the 70s of the last century, researchers at the University of California in Santa Cruz Gregory Bateson , John Grinder , Richard Bandler and Frank Pucelik the exploration of people's imaginations. They investigated which feelings and which thoughts trigger which ideas and, above all, how exactly these ideas are put together from the representational systems of seeing, hearing, riching, tasting, smelling and sensing. If the client is sad, does he experience this sadness as an image or as a film? Colored or black and white? Is he in the plot or does he see himself from the outside? Does he hear a possible voice from the right, left or is it even stereophonic? Her hypothesis, which has now been tested millions of times, is that targeted changes in the way the imagination is constructed changes the feelings, thoughts and behaviour of clients.

Lucas Derks has succeeded in further developing this biological approach to people's thinking, feeling and behaviour. His research, based on the findings of the four pioneers, has led to the Mental Space Psychology guided. The MSP assumes that every feeling and every thought is stored electrochemically in the brain and once in a kind of hologram in the room around us. One can easily test this hypothesis by simply thinking of one's mother, daughter, son or Angela Merkel and observing where in three-dimensional space around ours this hologram is located. In front? Behind? Left? Right? Size? Distance? Feeling?

If these holograms are analyzed, deconstructed and reassembled with regard to their structure from the five sensory systems, the feelings, the thoughts and thus the future behavior change.

The book describes theoretically why this is so and shows in twelve case studies, which are structured like short stories, how the MSP is applied in practice.

The book also brings together the twelve approaches into a meta-approach that meets both the efficacy science requirements of Grawe as well as the neurobiological view of Roth and allows the user to develop individual intervention strategies adapted to the client.

The book teaches vehicle construction and not how to build cars, trucks or motorcycles and then do nothing but build cars, trucks or motorcycles. Vehicles that really drive!

 

Target group/readership

• Practicing coaches and therapists, who are interested in new horizons and want to increase the efficiency of their (academically) learned processes.
• Coaches and therapists who work on Methods validated by efficacy science and neurobiology trust.
• Coaches and therapists who would like to have a clear Instructions for action follow.
• Young coaches and therapists who are open to new procedures.
• Persons who themselves Continuing Education Courses in psychotherapy or coaching, but have little experience in how to put what they have learned into practice.
• Students in training to become a coach or therapist.

 

What benefits does the target group get from reading it? ?

In the book, the target group learns how to deal with the Mental Space Psychology so that their work can be carried out according to the criteria of psychotherapeutic effectiveness research ( Grawe) and the neurobiological perspective ( Roth ) brings about long-term changes. The book guides them to expand their own practice by directly addressing the client's systems of representation, and in particular the client's imaginary world manifested in space, in such a way that their work becomes even more effective. In essence, this is an extension of the cognitive-linguistic speech intervention that is still taught practically everywhere today, which unfortunately is not effective or only effective in the short term, to the long-term effective emotional-physical intervention, as demanded by neurobiology and academic effectiveness research.

 

What means will be used to implement it?

Comprehensibility-oriented, more American than European writing style. Mixture between journalism and scientific approach. Theoretical foundation, presentation of the assumptions, case reports, work instructions, exercise inserts, questionnaires, many graphics and visualizations.

 

Which books are in direct competition?

To our knowledge, no other

 

What makes the book unique?

 The book is the fruit of 30 years of research and application. With the help of twelve Case histories how to change the client's imagination in such a way that their feelings, thoughts and behaviour change sustainably and in the long term. Part of the MSP was considered a Social Panorama 10,000 times taught and successfully applied 100,000 times around the world in the last 30 years. The book brings this practical review of the Mental Space Psychology and the Social Panoramas to the point, gives precise, understandable instructions for action, links the procedure with the latest academic research and remains easy to read and understand.

 

Table of contents

Foreword by Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Znoj (University of Bern)

Foreword by the authors.

1. "Out in Space!" – How to work practically with Mental Space Psychology (MSP) and Who is the book aimed at? ?

2. "See what you see, hear what you hear" – How coaching and therapy have developed over the years Developed have.

3. "The brain is a GPS!" – Of which Assumptions the three paradigms.

4. "What exactly works in coaching and therapy?" – As far as the psychological Efficacy Research .

5. "I'm afraid of myself! " – How to be Self discovered.

6. "You pig, you vile sack!" – How to participate in a manifestation abreacted .

7. "I'm surrounded by idiots!" – How to make manifestations Mixes .

8. "I'll show you where the hammer hangs!" – How to make manifestations postpones .

9. "I've always been on the brakes since then!" – how to make manifestations Weaves .

10. "The crowd of idiots!" – How to make manifestations Modeled .

11. "I'm the pusher!" – How to use resources Merges .

12. "The problem is all inside your head she said to me" – How to deal with the manifestations negotiates .

13. "Roses for Grandma" – how to Relations between manifestations Manifested .

14. "The weakest link" – how to use the Time (Family Panorama).

15. "You were a bad boss" – How to avoid burdensome black clouds Resolves .

16. "That's how it works!" –Ours Intervention strategy Mental Space Psychology.

17. "The Crying Suse" – How to avoid unconscious bad previous experiences neutralizes .

Bibliography

Annex 1      "How does empathy work?" – How to sensitive becomes.

Annex 2      "Incidentally, we assume the following!" – What are the Assumptions of the MSP?

Annex 3 "Feel, feel, behave" – What do we learn from the objective point of view of the Neurobiology?

Appendix 4 "I can't get any further!" –Applications: When does which approach work?  

Annex 5 "What does that mean exactly?" – Glossary –

 

Applications

 

Chapter	Possible areas of application	Lowdown
5	– lack of self-confidence – Self-esteem problems	Title	"I'm afraid of myself!" – How to discover your self
		Method	'Change of a weak self-awareness' ⇨ Improve self-image
6	– All kinds of aggression and aversion towards others	Title	"You pig, you vile scumbag!" – How to vent on a manifestation
		Method	Neutralizing hatred / aggressive metaphors / silently reacting ⇨ to let off steam on a manifestation
7	– Belonging problems with groups – Exclusion of groups	Title	"I'm surrounded by idiots!" – How to mix manifestations
		Method	Belonging and non-belonging as a fundamental need – "mixing" ⇨ Mix Manifestations
8	– Suffering under the authority of others – Suffering under one's own authority	Title	"I'll show you where the hammer hangs!" – How to postpone manifestations
		Method	Changing Authority Relationships ⇨ Postpone manifestations
9	– Shock experiences	Title	"I've always been on the brakes since then!" – how to weave manifestations
		Method	– Dealing with trauma (dis-associated) – Dealing with trauma (associated) ⇨ Interweaving manifestations
10	– Bringing people who work with groups into an optimal relationship with the group.	Title	"The Idiots!" – How to Model Manifestations
		Method	Coach Panorama ⇨ Model Manifestations
11	–Ambiguity –Conflict –Doubt – Inner conflict	Title	"I'm the Pusher!" – How to Merge Resources
		Method	Building a positive self over a negative ⇨ Merge manifestations with resources
12	– Conflicts between two parties –Negotiate	Title	"The problem is all inside your head she said to me" – How to negotiate with the manifestations
		Method	Negotiation and mediation panorama ⇨ Negotiate with manifestations
13	– Mourning for the deceased – Detachment of ex-partners – Detachment of "own babies" such as companies that have been sold	Title	"Roses for Grandma" – how to manifest relationships between manifestations
		Method	Spiritual Panorama (Mourning) ⇨ Changing manifestations
14	– Finding peace with the family – Deep-rooted, undesirable patterns of social experience and behavior that we suspect originated in early childhood.	Title	"The weakest link" – how to work with time (Family Panorama)
		Method	Family panorama ⇨ Work with the times
15	–Overload –Burnout –Depression	Title	"You Were a Bad Boss" – How to Beat Burdensome Black Clouds Resolves
		Method	Depression in Awareness Space (DAS) ⇨ Working with the cloud of depression
17	– Bad feelings – Change in (compulsive) behaviour	Title	"The Crying Suse" – How to Neutralize Unconscious Bad Previous Experiences
		Methods	– Determine trigger emotion – 3-dimensional miracle question – Resource Overload – Metaphorical decorating