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11 Deviant Behav. 299 (1990)
Creative Self-Hypnosis: New Wide-Awake, Nontrance Techniques to Empower Your Life, Work, and Relationships

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DEVIANT  BEHAVIOR: BOOK  REVIEWS


address how   the class system may,  despite the presence of reintegrative
shaming,  perpetuate criminality. While reintegrative shaming may inspire
some  individuals to reform, substantial reintegration requires some substan-
tive economic measures.  Otherwise, many  corporate criminals who already
find it relatively easy to evade the law, may simply experience less costly
punishment   when  they are  caught.       Those most likely to suffer from
reintegrative shaming, on the other hand, are blue collar and street criminals,
who  are more  easily detected and then simply thrust back into the same
crime-provoking situations.
Ultimately, it seems that Braithwaite desires to change methods of social
control so that all individuals are treated as family. This notion may have
merit, but before such  change can  be effective all individuals should be
treated as family by everyone. Among   other things, this means that such
substantive support as increased opportunity and economic aid is needed in
addition to symbolic gestures.
In spite of the weaknesses described, this book provides a thought-provoking
theory regarding  an alternative to retributive, rehabilitative, and radical
non-interventionist methods of social control. Braithwaite discusses a num-
ber of important issues relevant to deterrence, and his book warrants careful
consideration by criminal justice scholars.


Creative Self-Hypnosis:  New  Wide-Awake,  Nontrance  Techniques to  Em-
power Your  Life, Work, and Relationships. by Roger A. Straus, New York:
Prentice Hall. 1989, 270 pages, 59.95, paper.
Reviewed  by Anthony J. Riech, California State University, San Bernardino.

Roger Straus, a clinical sociologist and market research consultant, developed
this volume primarily for use as a self-help book. Straus also suggests the
material can be used by professional advisors, groups and as a college level
text.
Creative Self-Hypnosis is a self-help book, demonstrating how to recognize
personal problems, and  offers techniques for dealing with these problems.
This book is not based on solutions; rather the content is intended to assist
lay persons to deal with their problems and serves as an aid for understand-
ing the nature of the problem.
Straus states that we are  already hypnotized by  postnatal suggestions,
suggestions which are given by family, friends, and associates and that we
subconsciously hear  and follow their suggestions. But  Straus argues we
should listen to our own voice and thus take control of our lives. He asks that
we  think of our mind as a verb. We should mind  the world, using the
mind  as a function of our bodies, and to become conscious of the world (p.
43).
The  author attempts to show how it is possible to gain self-control through a
series of forty-one principles, twenty-five key tactics, and seven techniques,


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